The stain I am most afraid of..

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Can anyone tell me how to get felt tip pen out of school polo shirts pls? Supposedly the washable kind!

I've tried vanish/soaking etc. No joy.

Typically, DS wore his new school-logo-embroidered top once and got bloody felt tip on it. Sigh.

Rubbing alcohol or something I think it's called. You can get it in the chemist. Someone will come on & tell us the right name in a minute I'm sure, I can't think of it. It works anyway, good on ballpoint pen & felt pen stains.

Rubbing alcohol = surgical spirit

Yes! Surgical spirit. Thanks wowfudge.

Ok thanks both! Off to Google how to do it..

Hairspray is good

What do you do with hair spray? Spray it on the fabric or onto a cloth? I have hair spray here so easier to try that first..

Are you actually afraid of felt tip pen stains on shirts? If your child is young you have a long period of fear ahead of you! Wait until they get the fluorescent paint in art!

Biro stains vanish after soaking in full fat milk overnight, don't know if it helps with felt tip pens.

Hairspray works because it has alcohol in it.

If you can't get surgical spirit vodka or gin (or any clear colourless alcohol) should do the trick too. You might just need a bit more of it as it's not just pure alcohol iyswim. The brown spirits (rum, whiskey etc) dont work, they just add a brown stain to the mix

@Apollo it was in reference to the MN sponsored thread there was recently! He came home with more on him today. He's just finishing up reception so yes, many years yet! The sooner I know how to remove them the better 😉

Well the hair spray did nothing. I sprayed a load on and tried to dab it in (Not that there was much to dab). DH picked up some surgical spirit for me today so going to try that tmw!

Hairspray definitely works perfectly for biro. I had a leaked pen in a school shirt pocket. I did it, lacking faith, and was astounded at how it was completely gone.

I think you have to use these chemicals when the stain is fresh. No joy if well set.

For the biro, the stain was actually old as it was a secondhand school shirt and the seller didn't mention the stain. Bit rude!

Google says the treatments for biro and felt-tip are different (Good Housekeeping website).

Shaving gel works on biro, neverctried it on felt tip though.

Any idea for felt tips that have set in the fabric? I've dabbed on surgical spirit now, doesn't look like it's done anything tbh but I'll reserve judgement for post wash.

I used vanish in the latest shirt before washing and that one came out fine, it's the ones I naively washed first that are ruined! Rookie mistake 😡