Lingering grease marks on clothes

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Any recommendations on how to get shot of them? My husband does our laundry and does everything at 30C, which might be part of the problem. My fairly new plain cotton top has been washed twice, once with normal washing liquid and once with bio, but the grease spots caused by cooking without an apron on and toddler-like ineptitude with getting fork from plate to mouth without spills are still there.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Talc. Once the clothes are dry, dab it onto the grease spots, then iron, no steam, and pressing the point of the iron onto the spot. Brush off talc with a towel or flannel (might need to rewash dark clothes).

Gosh, that was quick! Many thanks. Do you mean something like Johnson's baby powder?

I spot wash with washing up liquid & very hot water before chucking back in the machine.
Or soaking the item in Biotex prior to washing also works

Yes, I use Johnson's Baby Powder, it works a treat.

Thanks, WhoKnows and Plastic. I will instruct my laundryman accordingly.

Neat Fairy washing up liquid on the grease. Pop in the machine as normal and wash. We only ever use non-bio and mainly 30 or 40 degree washes here and it always works. Just a dab of the liquid straight on the stain - it's logical really as dissolving grease is what WUL is meant to do. And IME it's been safe on all my fabrics, delicate or otherwise, which also makes sense to me as it has to be safe on skin.

With Bookcave on this! Best thing to get grease out. Put on as soon as you can. I then stuff it in wash basket and grease stains always come out

OK, the slovenly eater I will have to try to inspect my clothing after eating! It's always the plain, brightly coloured cotton tops that suffer. The marks stand out like a sore thumb.

I put a bit of cold water on and then some washing up liquid and then give it a scrub with my fingers and then wash in the machine.

Another vote for neat washing up liquid rubbed in the spot and wash as normal.

Liquids and gels are not as effective as washing powder. Cool washes are not as effective as warm or hot.

You can add a cup of washing soda crystals which are very effective on grease, but I doubt you will need them as well.

However if the machine has done lots of cool washes with liquid it has probably built up sludge in the drum and would benefit from a service wash on hot hot hot with a cup of crystals and no detergent or fabsoft (put some white cotton towels in if you have them). If the water goes grey and foamy, that's the old sludge dissolving. Do it again until it stays clean.

I might try that talc trick on our pillow cases. Dh's seems to get covered in oil after only a couple of days and the only way I've ever managed to get it out is a 90c wash. Even 60c with soda crystals doesn't touch it!

I do love a good service wash, it's scary how much foam gets created with no powder! And I usually use a little bit less than recommended too (if I use the amount on the box my machine flashes a warning that I've used too much!).

My recent fun has been clearing the outlet pipe that the dirty water from the machine goes into. My machine was stinking despite service washes, but £1 worth of soda crystals and 7 litres of nearly boiling water down the pipe itself and it's all smelling a bit better. I could hear a difference in how quickly the water was flowing so there must have been some lovely greasy sludge.

YY to neat WUL on the spot. Magic.

See, I used to do the washing up liquid thing and it didn't always work. Whereas the talc has been 100% reliable for me.

Definitely do service washes on the WM - I put our white fabric ahower curtain in with half a bottle of vinegar on 90 degrees every few weeks. Having said that. we stopped using liquid detergents a few years ago (they always made the drawer foul) and switched to Fairy tablets and the WM drawer gleams like new and never needs cleaning.