Colour Catcher

Colour Catcher is a brand name of colour run prevention products manufactured by Spotless Group. Colour Catcher is distributed by Spotless Punch in the United Kingdom,¹ by Punch Industries in Ireland,² in Spain as Atrapa Color,³ by Eau Ecarlate in France as Décolor Stop,⁴ and by Guaber in Italy as Acchiappacolore.

Colour Catcher was invented by Pat McNamee⁵ at Irish company Punch Industries in 1993. The product was created in the company's labs at Little Island, Cork.

Colour Catcher products are claimed to prevent colour runs in washing machine cycles and allow coloured and whites to be washed together without incurring colour run accidents. It is sold in packets of 10-20 paper-like sheets that are intended to absorb the excess dyes released during the washing process by garments. There are several other products that are named Colour Catcher, including an oxi-action stain remover and a sheet that is claimed to restore and maintains clothes' whiteness.⁶

To help prevent a Colour Catcher sheet from jamming the inner workings of a washing machine, it can be helpful to put the sheet into a mesh delicate wash bag.⁷

The Colour Catcher brand is marketed in the United States by S.C. Johnson under its Shout brand (the US product omits the "u" in colour, in accordance with American English). Colour Catcher is sold in most European states and Cyprus, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia.⁸

Colour Catcher sheets are not sold in Canada; one competing product available in Canada is called "Dr. Beckmann Colour & Dirt Collector".⁹