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Cristina
Cristina founded The Sweat Edit community in 2010, from her home in Vancouver, BC. She loves working out when she’s not at work managing the website. Her favourite workouts include olympic weightlifting, crossfit, running, and spinning on her Peloton. Favourite Peloton Workouts: Power Zone Training with Denis Morton or Matt Wilpers. Read about The Sweat Edit for more.
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I love the blue borealis scuba oversized half zip so much but I’m so afraid of the color fading when washed. I read so many reviews that say colors faded, even when washed on delicate and inside out. I wish I knew if this also happens with this color ?
I’ve had very minimal fading on my black one and I wash it normally and have machine dried it a few times (prefer to hang dry). My old lululemon scubas would fade horrifically years ago so I would never ever buy black. The difference for me now is I don’t use conventional laundry detergents which have a lot of optic whiteners, harsher stripping chemicals that pull color out and they also leave a coating on fabrics which looks a lot like fading. A little tiny bit of fading will actually look worse. You know this is happening because you get extra ‘fading’ along bumpy areas like the seam edge above the cuff. I use Nelly’s laundry detergent, or a much cheaper option which is pretty much the same called Country Save. You should also use a bit of vinegar in your first wash because that will set the dye, as does the soda ash in these minimal laundry detergents.