Please Help Best way to Remove Baby Stains

Chell

Have you got some of the bibs that have arms? These end up stained rather than the clothes.

Knonie

Not sure if it'll work on these stains but fairy soap (the big green bar) is a prewash soap that my nan swore by.. I forgot about it until my dd was 3 and wished I'd had it when she was weaning as its got rid of most stains on her clothes including tomato...

I just wet the stain and then rub the soap over it and then put it in to wash and I use a 30degree quick wash for most of my washing and it works on that...

twinmom04

ethansmum wrote: »

There is a very simple method- put the stains on the outside washing line- the sun bleaches all veggie stains! It might sound strange but it does work!

my dads a farmer and his wife swears by this for getting sheep pooh stains out of his clothes.

otterspasm

Someone told me the other day that those old fashioned green bars of Fairy soap will get any stains out of anything. Wet the garment, rub some soap on, leave to work for a while then wash as usual. I've not tried it myself yet but might be worth a try.

buxtonrabbitgreen

otterspasm wrote: »

Someone told me the other day that those old fashioned green bars of Fairy soap will get any stains out of anything. Wet the garment, rub some soap on, leave to work for a while then wash as usual. I've not tried it myself yet but might be worth a try.

It does work. I was using the same bar for about 10 years. I do need to buy another now. I find it far more effective than Vanish. Also, Stardrops rubbed on a stain is very effective too.

jenid

Has anyone found a product or a way of removing stains from baby clothes?

I thought it was bad enough during the escaping poo stage, but now he's on solids and I'm having a nightmare trying to get food stains out of his little clothes. He does wear bibs, full arm length ones at that, but still manages to get food everywhere! I have tried soda crystals, got desperate and have bought ariel stain remover (does this remove any stains from anything?!?) I did use Napisan on his poo stains, mostly on white clothes, I'm loath to try this on the stains as I think it might affect the colours?

It seems carrot/tomato/butternut squash are the worst stain offenders so if anyone has a way of removing these stains I would be really grateful.

Many thanks in advance

jenid

rosie383

I have to be honest here. I had this problem with my eldest daughter and couldn't get the stains out for love nor money. Especailly as she had really bad eczema so I could use Fairy and nothing else!

With my dd2 I was really strict with her. If I was feeding her I would say 'NO!' if she went to put her hands in her mouth, except if she was feeding herself. I learnt this from a couple of Turkish friends of mine who could feed their little ones when they were out, and you wouldn't even know they had eaten! It wasn't done in a cross way, just firmly. This worked great with dd2 and we got very few stains. I also just used cheap clothes, from hand-me-downs or car boots, so wasn't really bothered if they got stained. I saved her 'nice' clothes for going out, and planned ahead so that, if I had to feed her when we were out, it was with something that wouldn't stain. Oh, one of the worst things, which nothing would remove, was pear juice. feed your child a mushy pear, and the evidence will be there for ever!

I don't know if this will help, but it worked for me.

toddles*

I have the same problem with my DD clothes. The trick is with these stain remover products such as Ari*l and V*nish is that they need soaking in the product for at least 6 hours before putting in the wash. I usually have a pile of stained clothes in the ulitity room and once a week just put them all in a washing up bowl full of hot water and a good scoop of stain remover powder. Then the next day I put them on a high wash. 7 out of the 10 stains are removed well.
Also though as most of my DD clothes are ebay/carboots or freecycle they never cost me more than 50p an item so never really hugely bothered if they were ruined.

inamegajam

I know what you mean kids are like magicians, stains appear from nowhere. I did find out by accident that 2 or 3 aspirins in with the wash powder is really good. ( hubby left some in his shirt pocket when I put it in with my daughters grubby socks.) they came out great.
Might be worth a try.

Molly41

Good old fashioned sunlight gets rid of stains. Hanging them outside to dry, in the sunlight gets rid of stains x