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Cooking Oil on Clothes
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Soak them in a solution of vanish?0
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When you get home rub a good dollop of washing up liquid into the stain and wash them on as hot a wash as you can with a handful of soda crystals added into the washing powder. Washing up liquid is great as a pre treatment for taking oily stains out.0
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Brilliant, thanks - I'll give it a go when I get home.14 projects in 2014: 3/140
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Ice_Queen_112 wrote: »When you get home rub a good dollop of washing up liquid into the stain and wash them on as hot a wash as you can with a handful of soda crystals added into the washing powder. Washing up liquid is great as a pre treatment for taking oily stains out.
Just exactly what I was going to recomend too.The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett
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Ice_Queen_112 wrote: »When you get home rub a good dollop of washing up liquid into the stain and wash them on as hot a wash as you can with a handful of soda crystals added into the washing powder. Washing up liquid is great as a pre treatment for taking oily stains out.
I'd second that. I'd also turn them inside out and rub the wash up liquid on the reverse of the stain, too.
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Will washing up liquid work for longstanding oil stained t-shirts, trousers etc.? My youngest has had many a t-shirt confined to the bin because of this.0
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I use a squirt of stardrops in the wash with grooty stains.
It took boiled linseed oil of a pair of my jeans! 0 -
does popeye know???THE SHABBY SHABBY FOUNDER0
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I use washing up liquid as ohers have said, but I have never changed the temperature to wash in?
My partner spilt olive oil all down the front of a nice expensive yellow tshirt, I put washing up liquid on the stain and washed as I normally would and it came straight out.Raising kids is like being held hostage by midget terrorists0
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