Best way to remove stubborn mud stains from children's clothes

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Laundry help!

My DD (4) is forever staining clothes. I've tried washing things in cold water, scrubbing before a wash, vanish spray and vanish powder but the mud stains continue - any anyone recommend anything?

Washing up liquid neat, rub it in then was with Ariel cold wash. Magic stuff. Most important thing is bio detergent imo.

Depends what's in the mud. Try grease away, soda crystals, at least a 40° wash.

A long wash at 40 degrees minimum, and a shedload of biological washing powder.

Thank you, I currently use Tesco colour protect bio washing liquid - do you think I should switch to Ariel?

soak on cold. Scrub with washing up liquid. Vanish GEL £6 is the only stain remover I’ve ever found work. Then wash with bio at 40 and hang in the sun. I’ve 3 kids aged 5 and under and it’s a combo of mud, poo, food stains and vomit in this house. I’ve probably only thrown away 3 items I could never get clean

Thank you, do you think biological powder is better than a liquid? She's just smeared chocolate down a brand new top and I'm twitching 🙈 I have tried a 40 degree wash with everything I've listed above and I'm sure I'm making the stains worse 🤦🏽‍♀️

Now that's a can of worms, it's clay based mud that probably has some compost in it too 🙈 basically I let her dig what she wants in the garden. I've tried elbow grease with no joy, and 40 degree washes too 🙈

Thank tou, I'll get the gel, I've managed to sort any poo and sick and I never had these problems with my 7 year old, just my daughter 🤦🏽‍♀️ could I ask what bio you use? I use Tesco bio colour protect but I'm starting to think that's the problem 🤷🏽‍♀️

In my opinion it’s got to be powder. Ariel bio powder or persil bio powder (I prefer because it’s minty smelling). I used to buy Tesco or Sainsbury’s own brand bio powder.

i Use it on everything, all the kids and baby clothes. I started with fairy but found no one was sensitive to bio

Try a double dose of bio powder on a long wash for a good couple of hours - it needs to be one with plenty of water in the drum as well, so there's loads of bubbles sloshing about. So many washing programmes use so little water they look like they are bashing the clothes against a rock.

I also think all these 'wash on cold for 15 minutes and this product gets the stains out' claims beloved of advertisers are a bare-faced lie. Cos it doesn't work.

I've found leaving stain remover on overnight rather than the 5 minutes it says works. I find the Tesco one in the pink bottle is better than vanish.

I have pretty good success rates with stains on whites with the Vanish carpet spray rather than the clothes one. Grabbed it by accident.

I always scrub it with cold water and the green fairy washing up liquid. Put it on a wash at 30 with a pre rinse and a scoop of vanish. If it's really stubborn soak in cold water first with fairy overnight then wash as described.

Rinse with tepid water under the tap to get most of it off, rub with washing up liquid, spray with vanish stain remover on both sides of fabric, wash with Ariel bio with a scoop of Vanish powder at at least 40, preferably 60. That gets rid of all stains, even greasy gravy and curry stains on a white tablecloth.

Be careful of doing this, I did it with a throw the cat was sick on and it left pale marks where the stain remover had been left.

Dr Beckman - nature and cosmetics. Just pop it on, rub it in well and leave for an hour or so, before washing as normal. I have a child that slides along the grass in white trousers weekly whilst playing cricket, I get every single mark out.

Get a full set of the Dr Beckmann stain removers, they actually work.