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Sun-Cream stained school polo shirt

Angel-Angel_2 · 2012-06-08 11:58:36

Wondering if someone can help me? My son's school polo shirts have turned yellow from the expensive make sun cream and I can't get them white again. They've been boil washed with my husbands chef whites, I've soaked them in the oxygen release white powder stuff and still they're yellow, not just a tinge of yellow either -…

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Chris25 Posts: 12,918 Forumite

13 June 2012 at 7:46PM edited 13 June 2012 at 7:49PM

don't know whether this is of any use.....

http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2011/11/goodbye-to-yellow-armpit-stains.html

this lady makes her own yellow-armpit-stain-remover & funnily enough I was going to the chemist to get the hydrogen peroxide today but had emergency vet run (all ok) so will buy & have a go tomorrow, hopefully.
I know your stain is caused by suncream, but might work?

***just to edit that they are my son's t/shirts, not mine, that I want to try it on***

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