Sorry, another one from me. Getting food stains out of clothes

[michellep]

DD2 is being weaned at the moment, and I am supplementing her meals with the occasional jar of baby food. I have found the stains from jars impossible to get out, and was wondering if anyone has a successful method, other than avoiding anything orange, or dressing DD2 head to toe in orange!!

I know there is not much of it about but hanging in on the washing line to bleach is the best thing.

I always found the bibs that are like a top that do up with velcro very handy. I think mothercare do them.

Ace Bleach?

Sorry, am going to sound really ignorant here (I don't think I've every used my washing line). Do you mean put bleach on it and then hang it out?

I've tried Ace, and it works on some foods, but not on anything orange!

No just hang them up and let the sun bleach them.

Oh, thank you Miss Hoolie, I shall try that. I've been soaking some stuff for 2 days now in bio, and its just not shifting. Sorry, if it rains tomorrow now, its all my fault!!

Ace bleach is really good for getting stains out

I've always found old fashioned Napisan very helpful - either soak item in a bowl of warm water and Napisan for half hour or so, or you can add it to your detergent drawer in the machine. Works well, can leave things a bit stiff/hard to the touch but this is ok if you can hang it on the line afterwards.
I even do my (supposedly non-washable) sofa covers in it - stick em in the bath for a while, then rinse well and dry on the line!
(Must add, I only buy the stuff for this reason, I use disposables!!)

Ariel bio shifts most things, I find. If the stain is bad, or something particularly nasty - berries or tomato, say - I put the item in a bucket with bio and water to soak until it goes into the machine. If it's really bad, then I wash the whole load with bio. The important thing is never to let a fresh stain dry out. If you're concerned about using bio, then you can re-wash it again in your normal stuff. That's what I used to do, but as my lot seem to be OK with the occasional bio wash, I don't bother re-washing any more, or I just pour the bucket into the machine and add my normal non-bio soap.

But, at a certain stage of weaning, I did go through a period of co-ordinating the colour of my and baby's clothes with the colour of the food we were eating!

Hi there, my dd is nearly 3 and I still need a brilliant stainremover as she's a real messy pup. Anyhow, found THE stuff... in a New Zealand shop... it's Nappisan, but the NZ version and much more effective than the UK version. I simply soak the stuff over-night, then put a bit into the pre-wash et voila... clean as and it's colour safe!

was just about to recomment nappisan. Have only ever used the UK stuff and it works wonders

Thanks, I'll give napisan a go.

stain slayer - get in woolies or from lakeland - removes pretty much anything (including greasely marks...ds wanders around our bedroom with buttered toast....)

You have to use a biological detergent, non-bio's just can't do it.

Because I use my washer overnight (economy 7 means cheap electric), then I do this.

When something is stained I put it in the washer with 2 bio tablets in the morning. Start the washer, and run it for 10-15 minutes, then switch it off. Everything then sits and soaks for a good 8 - 10 hours. When my timer clicks on in the middle of the night the washer carries on, re-heating the water and completing the cycle.
This method gets EVERYTHING out, blood, tomato sauce, blackcurrant, everything.

Thanks Easy, that is such a good idea. I'd never thought of doing that. I hate having a bucket of soaking water lurking about with DD1 being 2.5 yrs and curious, and DD2 crawling, its an accident waiting to happen,so that is a brilliant suggestion.

you can buy a timer from wollies for about £5, and if you have economy 7 then it saves you that in about a month too.

Unfortunately I don't have economy 7, but I'll definitely get a timer. Thanks.

yesterday somebody advised me to use milton (or what do you call those sterilising tablets?) - apparently gets rid of any stains! going to try it myself but this made me think good job i didn't use it for bottles...

I keep the soaking bucket in the bath!

hi lenaw, isn't coke supposed to clean toilets - maybe you could use that to sterilise your bottles!!! mmmm wonder if that will shift orange baby food!!