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HELP Ruined the laundry with vegetable oil!!!!

42 replies

CatRash · 28/10/2019 20:05

Yesterday the vegetable oil got knocked onto the floor, spilling shit loads which mopped up a load of tea towels.

Threw said tea towels in the wash with other washing plus a squirt of Fairy thinking that would cure all my worries. I washed at 40 degrees with biological washing powder.

OMFG

Everything is ruined.

Everything, literally everything from the washing machine, is covered in black/grey/purple splodges. WTF do I do?????!

Picture is of my "white" Molke bra 😳

HELP Ruined the laundry with vegetable oil!!!!
OP posts:
PollyShelby · 28/10/2019 20:06

Oh no that's rubbish.

oohnicevase · 28/10/2019 20:08

Are your tea towels black ? There is no way oil could do that ! You are right fairy will dissolve oil but I'm confused by the colour .

IDontWantToCookTonight · 28/10/2019 20:09

That looks like knickers not a bra.. I have nothing helpful to contribute in just confused by the bra pants picture.

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CatRash · 28/10/2019 20:10

@oohnicevase No! They're mostly white or red. It was a mixed load though with a colour catcher chucked in.

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CatRash · 28/10/2019 20:12

@IDontWantToCookTonight Lol definitely a bra - it's upside down and weirdly folded. It's a Molke - they have no fastenings or underwrite. I'm 30 weeks pregnant so all about comfort.

Which has possibly contributed to this major fuckery.

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ArnoldBee · 28/10/2019 20:12

First of all you need to run your washing machine on the hottest wash you can.

ChickenyChick · 28/10/2019 20:12

Noooo can I unsee that pic of those grim stained pants please!!!

oohnicevase · 28/10/2019 20:13

I still don't understand where the colour has come from 🧐

Aquamarine1029 · 28/10/2019 20:15

Sorry, but everything's a goner.

ArnoldBee · 28/10/2019 20:18

Do you have kids already? If this is your first a hot wash will become your friend :-) Oil will never dissolve at 40c it has to be on the hottest setting. Don't mix colour loads and you could maybe have saved your clothes.

HairyDogsOfThigh · 28/10/2019 20:21

Did you accidentally scoop up a beetroot into your wash, op?

Haggisfish · 28/10/2019 20:23

It’s a bra-no one sees it. I suspect the oil acted as a solvent for the colours. I agree with running an empty wash. Don’t think stuff can be salvaged.

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CatRash · 28/10/2019 20:25

@ArnoldBee Hot wash with an empty machine? Then what? If I hot wash the clothes won't it just set the stains now?!

And yes I have one child already 😳

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adagio · 28/10/2019 20:30

Not done thus particular cock up myself, but I would try and split the wash unto ‘stuff that can be boiled (tea towels etc) and ‘nice stuff I want to rescue’ and ‘just bin it’.

Nice stuff I want to Try and rescue would go in a bucket with a sachet of colour run remover, possibly overnight (keep an eye on it through the evening and if no change you may as well leave it overnight as it can’t get worse). Hot wash stuff - stick them through the hottest wash along with biological washing powder (big box stuff like daz or persil - you can buy a little 10 wash box if you don’t normally use it) and a generous cup or two if oxy action for whites (vanish do it, but so do supermarket own and it’s the same).

Morning after on the try and save stuff I would also use bio powder and oxy for a 40’ wash and fingers crossed for you.

ColdRainAgain · 28/10/2019 20:31

Yes, hottest wash you can with nothing in to get any remaining oil and colour out.

Then, personally, I'd soak anything you are prepared to whiten in vanish/ace/ other bleach stuff.

Then id wash the colours, and check nothing comes out more splodge. Then the soaked whites - maybe with colour fast safe vanish stuff if you have any.

Good luck!

Another40ththread · 28/10/2019 20:37

Can't help with the colours but to get the oil out of clothing, dampener clothes and spray with vanish. Wait ten minutes. Then massage green original fairy (has to be the original not scented) either use fingers or a toothbrush. Leave for an hour. Wash as normal. I have used this method to save many items of clothing! Smile

CaptainPovey · 28/10/2019 20:38

I would not have put the oily stuff in with other stuff

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CatRash · 28/10/2019 20:39

Thank you for the good advice @adagio and @ColdRainAgain. Empty washing machine on a 90 degree wash with some bio powder. Lighter coloured stuff soaking in sink with colour run remover. Other stuff in a sad heap on the floor...

Ah I feel like such a nob. If only it happened a couple of hours earlier the tea towels would have gone in the wash with my DHs manky, dirty work clothes 🤦

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wowfudge · 28/10/2019 21:11

As a general rule, towels and cleaning cloths should be washed separately on a high temperature cottons wash.

IDontWantToCookTonight · 29/10/2019 05:47

@CatRash well I’m glad I said about it now! Im 29 weeks pregnant and can’t find a good comfy bra anywhere.. off to buy a molke

Beautiful3 · 29/10/2019 06:20

You should have washed them separately. Oil is hard to wash out. Put a 60 degree wash on to clean out your washing machine, before using it again. Dont think your clothes can be saved.

Veterinari · 29/10/2019 06:29

To all the ‘helpful’ posters saying that the Op should have washed them separately - i’m Reasonably confident that is now self evident - hence the OP posting! I doubt she's Planning in doing it again Hmm
Why bother posting if you’re just doing it to look superior/smug?

Op- hot wash with lots of powder/squirt of fairy/vanish and colour catcher - you’ll probably be surprised - you just need to lift the oil out and catch the colour. I’d separate out whites and probably do a pre wash soak in a bucket of hot vanish or nappysan

Myimaginaryfamiliarhasfleas · 29/10/2019 08:15

Stain Devils for oil and fat stains, always gets oil out. Nothing else does.

emwithme · 29/10/2019 08:31

If your Molke remains stained, send it off to To Dye For. They can tie-dye it funky colours so it won't be totally ruined.

MikeUniformMike · 29/10/2019 10:18

I would soak what hasn't already been soaked in a strong washing up liquid solution.
I'd then wash it with a colour run thing. Dr Beckmann is supposed to be good.