Help for cleaning boys clothes?
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at
11:41 am
sugarcookie asked:
My son is 5 and every single thing just got for back to school clothes has a stain (oil, grass, blood, you name it). I’ve tried shout, borax and bleach for colors… any one have any tried and true methods? Also, the clothes are starting to fade already, any tips on that?? (he ended up with a lot of dark browns, dark greens and bright reds this year)
My son is 5 and every single thing just got for back to school clothes has a stain (oil, grass, blood, you name it). I’ve tried shout, borax and bleach for colors… any one have any tried and true methods? Also, the clothes are starting to fade already, any tips on that?? (he ended up with a lot of dark browns, dark greens and bright reds this year)
Tagged with: Back To School • Bleach • True Methods
Filed under: Boys Clothing
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Two AWESOME products to try:
1.) Dreft baby spray [look in the baby supply aisle at Walmart]
2.) Spray n Wash with Resolve — also excellent!
Also check out:
Ok, for oil & grass stains – use pine sol. For blood, u have to instantly renise with cold water – and if you gonna use bleach make it clorex & don’t wash in hot water at least no often that will fade your clothes fast
If you’ve already tried pretreating with shout or other stain removing stuff, good luck. Unless he goes to some super snobby private school or something, nobody will think badly about a 5 year old boy with permanently grass stained knees … Get as much of the stain out as you can, and let him wear the stuff as is.
To ensure that color doesn’t fade and to make something color-fast soak the item in saltwater for about 20 minutes. This process will set the dyes. I buy a lot of black clothing, I’ve been doing this for years to keep my blacks black. I also use it on reds. It also prevents dyes from redistributing in the wash. You should only need to do this process once during the life of a garment.
For stains: always remember that heat will set in a stain…so its best to pretreat stains first. For grease stains, Dawn detergent works best, work on the stain (I always keep an old toothbrush in my laundry arsenal) and get it out before laundering. For blood (protein stains) you can work on it with a small amount of cold water and any type of soap. I’ve found handsoap works well as any commercial laundry stain fighter. For grass stains, Spray n Wash works the best. You may have to work at the stain a little bit to get it out. Another great pre-treater is shaving cream (not gel, classic cream) its cheap (usually a buck or less) and its concentrated soap.
For set-in stains that you missed before laundering, try a dab of carpet cleaning made specifically for set-in stains…but make sure you rinse out as much of the soap you can before relaundering!
Good luck!
Regularly add OxyClean power to your laundry (in addition to detergent), and for tough stains, use OxyClean stain removing spray first. Always works for me.
when you wash colored clothes , wash them turned inside out , this stops them from fading with the heat , also if you hang them outside the sun won´t bleach the color out of them. For all the stains you have mentioned , there is a product called Dr Beckmann stain remover , if you can find this you will be so happy. It removes ink, grass, stains, blood, oil, well every stain you can think of. Look it up for yourself