Help - Grease on clothes

zippychick

this thread has loads of ideas. Ill merge this later on

Zip

meritaten

try soaking in bio washing powder - then washing with the bio at the 40 degree synthetic cycle.

Anne_Marie_2

Spray it with WD40, brilliant for getting out grease, rinse and then wash.

thriftwizard

Oooh, thanks all, I've been trying so hard to get a very noticeable motor oil stain out of a beautiful red vintage maxi; bicarb & proprietary stain removers haven't even touched it, but I'd never thought of trying WD40 or Swarfega. There's hope for it yet...

elona

I would rub shampoo for greasy hair into the stain, leave it for an hour or so and then wash on gentle programme.

piecemeal

The other day I saw a tip that piling bicarb or talc on the stain, leaving it until it absorbs some grease, overnight I think, then repeating until it's gone, then wash as normal.

cutestkids

I dripped oil from a jar of roasted peppers in oil on a top I was wearing the other day.
I just poured on washing up liquid to cover the stain rubbed it in and left it for an hour then washed on a normal wash and it came out.

FairyPrincessk

I have a method that seems to work very well. I think it might be a bit of overkill, but I'm notorious for cooking in things I don't want to ruin.

1. Drop food/splatter oil on clothing.:o
2. Panic.:eek:
3. Grab cornstarch, pour onto stain. Get plenty of it everywhere, floor included. Just for good measure.:rotfl:
4. Finish cooking/eating etc.:mad:
5. Remove clothing and rub fairy liquid into the stain.;)
6. Wash as normal within 24 hours.:cool:
7. Do NOT tumble dry until you know for sure the stain is removed (usually after it has dried as oil stains are hard to spot on wet material)
8. I've never had to, but I'd repeat the fairy liquid step if necessary. I also have a stain devils product for oil, but it smells strange so I don't use it unless I have to. Haven't needed it since I invented the above method.:beer:

torch_light

I bought the new shirt (£45) and had the name of the new multi - million pound striker, the club bought, along with his number pasted on the back. :T

A handful of games into the season and a similar amount of washes and the shirt, that is a light colour, has started to develop a giraffe type dark stain pattern over it. Not all over just in few places and in various degrees of size but all the same moderate dark stain.

I am not a pleased fan.

As is with footy shirts it is polyester and xxl :rotfl:

I noticed the stain this morning after it had gone through a 30 degree wash with some Persil colour in with it in a ball.

Has the persil somehow stained the material? It looks terrible and for the money it was..............well!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

APennySaved

Hi all

[ Bumping this thread in 2017! ]

pancakequeen wrote: »

Hi Can anyone help, I have a number of T Shirts which after washing still have marks on them. They are small grease marks and I have tried a number of products like Vanish to remove them but still they are there.

I have had the same problem with a few tee shirts too, & they are quality tops that I don't want to have to discard. Persistent stains that just won't be removed by the normal methods.

What I have noticed is that there is a 'new' material that tees are now often made of, that is more stretchy than just a cotton tee shirt. It gives the tee shirt more of a sheen & more stretchy/fitted than cotton. It gives a good shape & is less likely, I have found, to sag over time, so is a welcome advent on the clothes market. However, I have also found a negative - that stains refuse to budge! :-(

I had thought that this sheen & stretch might well be the result of lycra added to cotton. But I have now checked the label & in fact the tee shirts are made of: 95% viscose + 5% elastane.

Is it perhaps in the nature of the 'weave' - of 1 or both of these 2 man-made substances - to make the material more prone to hold stains?

And if so (or indeed not) then does anyone have any ideas as to how to remove stains from 95% viscose + 5% elastane?

Some of the stains are quite old now i.e. the tee shirts have been soaked & washed (at 40°) several times, but I'd still like to remove the stains if at all possible as the tops are favs & worthwhile saving!