Yellow armpit stains

[slimeyjoe]

I’m guessing this has been asked a thousand times, but how to remove or at least fade yellow sweat stains from armpits on white tee shirts. We’ve tried pretty much all the branded stain removers, bicarbonate of soda/baking powder mixed with white vinegar, bleach solution, oxy whitening powder stuff etc etc, but to no avail. My son has a million white tee shirts that were all quite pricey and are otherwise in great nick, but he won’t wear them with these stains on.. help me!!

DH has stopped buying expensive white T-shirt's for exactly this reason. I've tried absolutely everything suggested on the Internet and have yet to find a solution.

Probably a bit late in the year now but I think strong direct sunlight helps

Wish I knew. Sunshine has done fuck all. Tried special things from shops, bleach, some concoction that involved aspirin or bicarb or lemon or some combination. Vanish whites gold. Washing at 90. Leaving on the line in the rain. The full moon. For me it’s my duvet covers as I’m very very very sweaty at night.

Soak in white vinegar - this will remove residue of antiperspirant. Scrub with a nail brush to break it down if necessary and soak again.
Soak in biotex - this breaks down the protein in the sweat stain.
Hot wash

Soak in Napisan, and then always wash with Daz or Formil powder plus a slug of Napisan

If you add bicarbonate to vinegar your adding base to acid and neutralising them so neither works.

It’s the aluminium in antiperspirant so I use driclor at night now, put cream on if it stings.

Cheers everyone, gonna have a go with Biotex and Napisan as I’ve not tried them yet 👍🏻

I've had some luck using ammonia to remove them, its pretty grim though! I've also found using a salt deodorant, something like Salt of the Earth doesn't stain as it doesn't contain the aluminium.

Make him buy his own shirts.

They're staining because he's wearing them more than once without washing them/putting them in the wash or leaving them to fester until he's run out of clean/new ones.

Or persuade him to become a Goth. Can't see the stains on black ones.

Try Dr Beckman Sweat stain remover, it works really well