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08-05-2008, 11:43 AM #1Registered User
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My sister told me that Tide shrinks her clothes. Have you ever heard of Tide shrinking clothes? Thanks.
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08-05-2008, 11:48 AM #2Registered User
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Tide is all I use and I've never noticed it shrinking mine. Of course I don't dry my clothes all of the way in the dryer. I put them in for a few minutes to pull the wrinkles out then hang the shirts on hangers to finish drying them. The only clothes that I dry all of the way in the dryer are white clothes and my DH and DS's jeans. I even hang my jeans and capris to dry. If mine shrunk then I couldn't get in them.
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08-05-2008, 11:59 AM #3I LOVE ROBERT!!
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Tide is all I use and I havent had a problem with it..
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08-05-2008, 12:01 PM #4Grandonson due Sept. 10th
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Tide user here too and I have never had a problem, and I dry everything until it is dry except for a couple of different shirts that I know will shrink.
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Tide is all I use and I dry everything in the dryer, since the dryer is downstairs and I am usually in the computer room, I don't always hear the buzzer go off. So I would say that I dry mine completly and no I have not ever had anything shrink. If I put on a couple of pounds my jeans may be a bit tight getting on but stretch out right as soon as zipped shut.
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08-05-2008, 12:01 PM #6BigBig Mass-hole
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I use tide as well. The only time I experience shrinkage is if I've used water that's too hot or from the dryer. That's probably her problem.
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A detergent cannot shrink material. It is her over drying her clothes that is shrinking them. Or even the hot water. Either way, it is heat that causes shrinkage in material. Suggest to her to use warm or cold water, and to only dry until they are dry, not cooked.
I have used eithre Tide or Gain for years without an issue.~*Masquerading as a NORMAL person, day after day, is EXHAUSTING!*~
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I use Tide too and I never thought there was a problem with it but my sister told me she used Tide again and it shrank something again and that is what caused it.
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I use tide would never change
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I also am a tide user
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08-05-2008, 03:57 PM #11BigBig Moderator
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I don't know about shrinkage but in my opinion it fades the clothes. I don't even put a lot of my tops in the dryer so it's not the dryer that fades them. I hang them up to dry. I also have a problem with being itchy and having a rash when I use Tide. The doctor had said that Tide is the harshest detergent.
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