Chocolate Stains on Clothes

Dr.Lou

I had some on my jeans a couple of weeks ago. After washing them a couple of times and adding a bit of star drops to the stain it has faded, but still there. I hope with a couple more washes like this it will come out completely.

Never thought it would be so hard to remove! Good Luck!

Stephen_Leak

A couple of weeks ago I splashed out on a new light blue cotton polo shirt for work. On the first day, I got a tiny chocolate stain on the front. I immediately dabbed it with some water, and have washed it a couple of times since. The mark has faded, but it is still there. I doubt that a casual observer could see it, but I know where it is. Any advice?

Pink.

Hi Stephen.

Before you wash it again, dampen the stain and add some bicarbonate of soda or borax if you have some. Leave for about an hour then wash in the normal way and hopefully this will remove the stain.

Pink

Gingham_Ribbon

If that fails, I always try washing up liquid on food stains.

maz123_2

My delightful one has been eating choc chip cornetto's and they've gone all down his green school shirts. They've been washed on a normal was (40c) but the stains are still in. any suggestions as to what will really shift them?
thanks again :beer:

Olliebeak

Have you tried pre-treating the stains by giving them a 'rub-and-scrub' before washing in the machine?

Rub at them quite hard with the edge of a bar of soap (something like Vanish is best really) and then scrub with a nail brush. That may attack at the stain and work inbetween the fibres of the fabric. Soap and a nailbrush was always my way of attacking the dirty soles of white socks.

Sometimes washing-up liquid rubbed into a stain is also helpful - but needs to be rinsed out before going in the machine afterwards - or you get lots of soapsuds inside the drum.

You may find that the stain fades with each attempt and wash till it's not noticeable.

Good Luck!

anonymousie

how old is he?

If small I'd use some vanish spray+ vanish in wash for a couple more washes and then he'd wear them stained or not (I'm talking nursery/infant age). After all the stain will be jointed with marker pen and paint soon enough!

If he's big (certainly over 9yrs) then, unless he has a problem eating he shouldn't have made a mess and he'd buy himself a new shirt out of pocket money/savings if the above didn't work.

At the sort of 7-9 "watershed" age I'm not sure- I'd perhaps think who let him eat the thing in school clothes anyway:rotfl: (eg if it was me I'd gracefully take it on the chin, and if it was a treat from gran etc ditto).

embb

A little bit of fairy liquid rubbed into the stains then washed in the machine should do the trick.

maz123_2

Thanks for your replies and he's 6, unfortunatley it's my fault as well.:o
1 shirts not too bad the other looks like he had a food fight with himself, i let him help himself didn't realise i still had them in the back of the freezer and he found them. i'll buy a bar of vanish and get scrubbing then! I suppose this is penance

OddjobKIA

get him to wear them on cold days only when he needs to wear a jumper????