Jeans, dresses, shirts, blouses, trousers or sweaters…every single clothing item loses its gloss and color after each wash. Although there are a lot of solutions to take care of white clothes, but when it comes to the colored ones things get complicated.

Typically, fine detergent particles remain on clothes, damaging the fabric and color of your clothes. Fortunately, there is a simple trick that will definitely solve this this problem for you to enjoy wearing your favorite clothes longer.

Black pepper is the secret ingredient that prolongs the life of your colored clothes.

Black pepper is one of the most used spices, but you certainly didn’t know it can do wonders with your clothes. All you have to do is add 1 teaspoon of black pepper powder in the washing machine when you are washing the laundry.

Set the washing machine at the lowest temperature, and add the usual laundry detergent and fabric softener. Black pepper will remove the white particles left by detergent, and your clothes will keep their color for a long time.

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