I did a few posts a couple of years ago on laundry. It took a couple of weeks to complete and a little extra money out of pocket.
First variable was type of detergent. Dollar Store stuff. Mid level Purex type which I found for the most part is what the generic store brand stuff is similar to. Then the over priced Tide stuff. I really did not find much difference between them. Although using about twice as much of the Dollar Tree stuff. Did not get a noticeably better result with the high end stuff. Finding the middle of the road detergent the best value.
Water temperature is the other variable. Concluding that if I had to pay for the hot water and had a washer and dryer at home using cold water does just about as well. Only using hot water on very soiled clothes. And have found that hot water did not seem to make that much difference anyway. If you only have a small load of colors and whites cold water lets you get away with doing them together. Saving time.
As I use a coin laundry it doesn't make any difference in ultimate cost using hot, warm or cold water. But again a small load with any color and white saves time and money as well.
A coin laundry is good for experiments as you can use multiple machines if they are available. Today I did a load of colors in cold. Black work pants in warm. Then some white clothes in hot. I hand washed the white clothes due to getting some grease on a sleeve of a shirt and soaked the whites in dish soap and bleach. So they came out real clean, but the washing by hand beforehand made the difference I suppose.
So unless you have something that isn't colorfast or just dyed you should be able to wash everything together in cold water.
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