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AIBU to expect clothes to survive the washing machine??

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Ketryne · 12/05/2025 08:34

Posting here for traffic because I’m at my wits end. I fully admit I’m hopeless at household cleaning tasks.

Our clothes (especially pale coloured baby clothes) keep coming out of the washing machine with little round grease stains all over them that won’t wash out. We used to have an old washer dryer that was failing in other ways so I assumed it was down to that, so we recently got a brand new washing machine and separate drier and it’s happening again!

I can only assume now that it’s something to do with the detergent. We use Fairy non bio gel because my skin has always reacted to anything else. Has anyone else had this issue?

I think it’s worse at lower temps (30 rather than 40) but my spiderman-obsessed DS has a bunch of character T-shirts that seem to fade at 40 degrees.

What am I doing wrong?? I can’t keep replacing clothes at this pace.

Can anyone…

Either suggest how I might stop these grease stains on clothes.

OR suggest a super skin kind gentle detergent I could try instead!

Thank you.

OP posts:
ChicBalonz · 12/05/2025 16:44

Have you cleaned your washing machine recently?

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