Help - Grease on clothes

Olliebeak

bunny999 wrote: »

does blotting paper work ?

Not sure - suppose it could be worth a try . Maybe a piece of blotting paper underneath the stain and another piece above and then a warm iron to see if it would have any effect on the mark. Not sure where you would get blotting paper from these days though.

Eckythump_2

Ollie, do you do the wash on a higher temp with washing up liquid, or just a normal 30/40 degree?

lv1109

stardrops on a normal 30 deg wash should do the trick

Eckythump_2

What are 'stardrops' and where do I get them?

calleyw

Eckythump wrote: »

What are 'stardrops' and where do I get them?

Stardrops are cleaning product.

To see what a bottle look like see here

We use it to clean work surfaces at home. We use a mixture of water and stardrops in a trigger bottle. Last for ages.

Yours

Calley

lv1109

Eckythump wrote: »

What are 'stardrops' and where do I get them?

Stardrops are great! Its the stuff mentioned by calleyw above. If you put some on the stain and run in a little then stick on a 30 deg wash you should find the stain is no more.

Its great for lots of other stuff too and ridiculously cheap.

HTH

Olliebeak

Eckythump wrote: »

Ollie, do you do the wash on a higher temp with washing up liquid, or just a normal 30/40 degree?

I'm sorry - only just seen this post.

I just wash on the temperature appropriate for whatever it is. Usually 40 for everything in my house - apart from an occasional HOT TOWEL/TEA TOWEL wash or a 30 delicates.

morganlefay

I think I have asked this question before but am still struggling: I have 4 tops I wear all the time in rotation, they are 95% viscose and 5% elastane (I think that's lycra). I am a keen but messy cook and always end up with grease stains down the front. I have tried:

Vanish - liquid, spray-on and stick
Ace bleach
Rubbing a bit of bio washing liquid
Bio tex
Stain devils
Dylon stain remover for greasy stains
And probably other things

The best is the little Dylon bottles where you squidge a bit of goo onto the stain before washing but these have now vanished from the shops, and most of the others need 2 or 3 washes ( at 50degrees) to get the stains out. (I do wear a pinny but the stains sneak round it anyway)

Please does anyone have a good method/product which means that I can just do one wash each time, and at a lower temperature. All these things claim to get the stains out but they bloomin well don't and I'm spending a fortune. (But I really like these tops and want to go on wearing them until they fall apart - my economising on buying clothes is being completely wrecked by my expenditure on stain products, and running the washer, and at a high temperature).

BitterAndTwisted

Try making a paste from washing soda and warm water and rubbing the grease-marks with that before machine-washing.

TBH if you're constantly getting grease-spots on your clothes when you wear a pinny over them I'd be tempted to either get changed before cooking or put an old shirt on over the top

Pink.

Hi morganlefay,

I use a small blob of washing up liquid directly on the stain then throw it into the machine as usual. It normally works for me.

There are more ideas on this thread:

Help - Grease on clothes

I'll add your thread to that one to keep the suggestions together.

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