I can;t get tomato out of baby's clothes!

skintchick

I am finding that anything tomato-based will not come out of my 9mo's clothes. I'm not sure why. Can anyone suggest how I can get it out? She has covered a lovely T-shirt and I really want to restore it to white again. I usually dry indoors but do have a line. I wash at 40 degrees with no fabric conditioner.

demonicangel

Sunshine works wonders for tomato stains!

Either hang it on the line in the sun or hang it up on a curtain pole facing the sun, and they stains should disappear within a few hours. May take longer but it does work!

BitterAndTwisted

I used to use a Vanish stain stick with a nail-brush and then Bio-Tex.

Quite honestly, it's not worth all the aggro so I used to strip my charges down to their vests when serving them anything that stained badly.

Pink.

Hi skintchick,

I agree with demonicangel, sunshine works wonders and I have had some great results with borax (which I'm not sure is still available?) This thread has more ideas:

Tomato stain

I know that you object to threads being merged, but I'll add your thread to that one, once you've had some replies, so that other users can find the suggestions together.

Pink

Downsizing__for_sanity

Napisan or Milton can work wonders if you have any handy. (Saying that, I still have some badly stained bibs from a vile jar of babyfood my husband bought once. Why are they always orange :-) ???!)

meritaten

if the clothes are pure cotton then try ordinary bleach - directly onto the stain. leave for a few minutes then wash as normal.
stripping messy eaters works - so do those little plastic aprons they sell for kids crafting - the ones that look like little back to front macs!

skintchick

We were out so I couldn;t strip her and she is very good at wiping her hands on herself anyway!

I have Milton but was worried about damaging the pattern on the clothes, they are either coloured, or the T-shirt is white with a glittery butterfly on which I don;t want to ruin. OH says just to buy a new one but that seems excessive.

Will try the sunshine thing. And will read the other thread.

lindseykim13

Defo sunshine my ds has spag bol all over a blue and white top and i thought it was destined for the bin i just gave it a basic 40 wash and it was still covered. Hung on the line today wasn't even that sunny and it's clean! Knew it worked with dd's nappies but didn't know i could get the dreaded spag bol out