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Rubbing a bit of washing up liquid into the stain before putting into machine can sometimes do the trick.


Would agree about hanging out clothes in the sunlight as stains do disappear after hanging out on the washing line in hot sunlight (got that from an elderly neighbour).

Weirdly, I've had sunlight worsen stains on some white/light clothing. Does anyone know why that happened? I thought maybe the sunlight oxidised something in the stain, effectively causing the stain to set. It hasn't happened enough times to draw any conclusion about what might have been the cause.
  • 2 weeks later...

Saffron, yes presumably oxidation.

I am giving up my short low temp eco friendly washes. They just don't get things clean enough.


I recently got terrible grass and mud out of a lovely white dress by soaking in Vanish overnight, making a little paste, machine washing and then repeating as only half came out the first time.

A lot of the stain remover formulas say they work in one application, but really I've found many stains need re-treating in practice.


In theory, oxygenated bleaches should help with oxidised stains, but in practice I've found that they can also remove colour from children's clothing. As it turns out, a lot of children's clothing is dyed with vegetable-based dyes. So you can remove the stain, but also damage the colour content of the fabric! Ah, we live and learn, eh?


I have a hypothesis that rust remover should help remove banana stains (oxidised potassium stain?), but I've never had a bottle of rust remover around when I needed to test this.


Sometimes soaking the stained area in fabric conditioner, washing thoroughly with liquid dish soap, and completely rinsing the fabric before applying stain remover helps. This 2-step process helps remove oily residues which prevent stain remover penetrating the stain.

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