[Sca-cooks] stains, was more clothing tips for pennic

[Elaine Koogler]

But, whatever you do...don't use it on silk. It turns it a really ugly 
beige color (white silk that is).

kiri

Sharon Gordon wrote:

>Oxiclean works amazingly well for most stains.  Sometimes I have found with
>oil based stains that I need to first wash it in cold water, tide, and
>oxiclean to get the color of the stain out.  Hang it to dry to see if all of
>it is out.  Then sometimes if the fabric can take hot water, one or two
>washes in tide and hot water to get rid of the oil itself.  If it's not ok
>to put the cloth in hot water, multiple washes of cold and tide will get it
>out.  Usually two extra washes are enough.  Worst case has been six washes.
>
>Other stain removers that I've used (do test as some of these will interact
>with fabric or dyes)
>Hair spray--ball point pen
>Mary Ellens (various, formulated for various substances)
>Bar Keeper's cleanser (rust, blood, red clay, tomato--especially on white
>cotton)
>An orange citrus cleanser--especially good on sticky things
>
>Since oxiclean has become available, that tends to work on most everything,
>so I don't use the others much any more.
>
>Sharon
>gordonse at one.net
>
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