Message: I have a question, I have cheerleading uniforms made from lycra they are red and white with blue trim, now what has happened is the older girls have sweated under the arm and the red is bleeding on the white, when washed with woolite all colors which is supposed to have a no run ingrediant in it, it ran, cold water it ran, the test uniform I did was my own daughters and it washed in cold water in the sink ran slightly, but in warm water the skirt ran and turned pink. My question to you is the dye setter you have listed can it be used to set the dye of the uniforms once they are sew together?  The dye is soaking out with the ritz and the carbona but more important can we set the others before they run lol.

No, I don't think that you can set the dye, because you would have to use hot water. 

The dye in the fabric and the trim should have been set before they were ever used to sew the uniforms! These uniforms are defective. Ordinary usage for cheerleader's uniforms invariably includes sweating while wearing them, as well as washing according to any included care instructions. You should return these defective uniforms to the place where you bought them. If you sewed them yourself, you should consider it to be an unfortunate learning experience, and sew new ones, using fabric whose dye does not run.

Rit Color Remover (not ritz!) and Carbona Color Run Remover should be used in HOT (140°F or higher) water; however, Lycra should never be subjected to temperatures over 105°F. It is impossible to get full effectiveness from either Rit Color Remover or Carbona Color Run Remover at temperatures that are safe to use on Lycra spandex.

Rit Dye Fixative and Retayne Dye Fixative can be used by soaking a garment in HOT water with either of these two fixatives, but again, hot water must never be used with Lycra-containing garments. Furthermore, there's not much point in even adding the uniforms to the washtub of hot dye fixative, since it sounds like some dye will run even in the fixative bath, causing permanent staining.

I'm afraid that there's no solution for your cheerleading uniforms, other than getting new ones that have been made right.

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