Cleaning your gear

I have a large collection of underwear and am curious how everyone cleans their gear. Of course I never wash them in a washing machine/ dryer. I hand wash them in the shower in a container with a bit of Woolite Laundry Detergent. I then hang them up to air dry in the shower. Even using this simple and safe method, I find that neon and metallic colors fade. Has anyone found a better way to keep their underwear looking good?

Unless no staining, Just luke warn water. Mostly what I do.

All very similar - Dr Bronners Castile soap does the trick and its biodegradable! I do machine was on gentle every so often to get a proper deep clean…but never use the dryer!

I have an accumulation of precum on my Amoresy. What do you us?

When I do wash my gear I actually do use a washing machine, the horizontal drum type, with cold water on a gentle cycle and always extra rinse. A few pieces of gear at a time, either no zippers or with zippers fully zipped, will go into a mesh bag for delicates. For detergent, I use a small amount of Tide "Free and Gentle" liquid. After the cycle, the gear then goes onto a drying rack where I do my best not to let too much of it hang under its own wet-weight. It dries indoors, out of the sunlight, usually with a fan gently blowing on it.

You wash your spandex gear in the washing machine, anything below 30'c is good and using a kapow wash bag helps too https://kapowmeggings.co.uk/collections/all/products/kapow-wash-bag

Speaking as a longtime cyclist/runner who wears a lot of spandex athletic gar and likes keeping my favorite gear for a long time*: So far the only time I've had anything go bad on me was when I overdid it on the detergent or didn't notice that the detergent contained fabric softener. Most washing detergent is overpowered for this kind of fabric. Use less detergent than the bottle instructions say. No fabric softener. Wash as soon as you can after activity (exercise or otherwise). Sweat is salty. Cum has proteins and can leave stains. Piss can also stain. Even just from taking a piss break, not even pissplay. Hot water is deadly to lycra so always, always: cold wash. Don't trust washing machines that say "warm" because they mostly just use a predetermined mix of hot and cold, and if your hot water is hot, "warm" isn't cool enough. And as everyone else says, extra rinse cycle to get out any detergent, hang dry in the shade and use a wash bag to keep stuff from getting stretched during the washing or spin cycles. * Yes I have too much gear. Yes I cannot wear it all. Yes I should offload some of it.

You should offload on some of it… you can never have too much gear…

I am laughing, thank you!