Tomato stain

Middy

Please move this to another thread if required.

I have a zip up hoodie with white strings. Yesterday, I got some tomato sauce on the strings. I have washed it twice with Ace bleach, Ariel stain remover powder and Stain Devils that does tomato and still not removed.

Any cheap ideas to remove the tomato stain?

squeaky

You might find something helpful in this thread:- Tomato stain

I'll add this one to it later.

Good luck

CH27

Stick it on the washing line for a couple of days.

Flibsey

is the hoodie coloured? 'cos sticking it on the line will not just bleach the strings.
pull the strings as long as possible, then put a knot in each of the strings, right near the hood.

take some good ol' bleach (thick, thin, oxy whatever) in a non metallic bowl. about 4 teaspoons bleach to 1pt hotish water... wet the strings with plain water to just below the knots. the knots are a safety mechanism to stop the bleach liquidfrom "wicking" and damaging the hoodie. and leave dunked in the bleach solution for at least an hour. keep chekcing the progress though as it can go yellow and this is irreversible. once the stain is as light as you can stand it (playing bleach chicken is very nerve wracking!) remove, holding the hoodie body out of the way as you carry it to your sink, and rinse incredibly carefully. best to use a not-so-full-on tap and take longer than to risk splashing

keep rinsing until you reckon they're as rinsed as they can be, and then wash the hoodie immediately in a normal machine wash. dry as usual.

good luck!

meritaten

I was going to recommend thick bleach - and my Not so nerve wracking method is to put a couple of paper clips above the stain (as flibsey says the strings act as a wick otherwise) and soak some cotton wool in the bleach and wrap around the stained part. leave for an hour or so and check to see if the stain has gone or lightened sufficiently for you. unwrap the cotton wool and holding the strings away from the item of clothing rinse them thoroughly!
I cannot take the credit for this - Kim and Aggie gave me the idea when they showed how to clean a disgusting bathroom light cord on 'how clean is your house'!

tattycath

If all else fails cord is very cheap and easy to replace-I had to change the cord on my daughter's hoodie.

OP2011

Maybe tie any old string to the hoodie cord and pull it all through leaving the thin one in the garment. Then you can soak the cord totally in a solution of bleach and water with no worry of damaging the top.

Good luck.