Cashmere jumpers soaked in cooking oil - help!

[Tryingtoread]

i was clearing out our laundry cupboard yesterday and found a bottle of vegetable oil had knocked over and spilled - right onto my delicate wash pile. I have two cashmere jumpers soaked in oil!!! Can they be salvaged? What do I do?! So far I have gently rinsed them and have now left them to soak in lukewarm water with some washing up liquid. Not just a spot of oil - when I found them they were completely saturated 😥

It might be too late, but you can use cornflour to absorb oil out of fabric (but you put it on when dry).
Otherwise I'd do what you're doing with the washing up liquid.

Not the point, I know, but why do you keep cooking oil in your laundry cupboard?

Soaking could destroy the fibres anyway, never mind the oil.

Anthing like flour, baby powder etc. would soak it up, you would need a lot and leave it on for a good while.

Probably too late for the dry approach as the soaking will have done things to the oil by now.

cornflour is a great tip - sadly they were already wet but I will remember in case this ever happens again!!

I’ve changed the water 3 times so far and it’s looking a bit less greasy - not sure if the oil marks will come out but time will tell! Fingers crossed they can be salvaged.

I have learned a valuable lesson about keeping cooking oil in the laundry cupboard - not my brightest moment! It’s vegetable oil for frying which I do very rarely and a big 2 litre bottle so takes up loads of cupboard space, hence keeping it on the floor of the laundry cupboard. If I hadn’t put off washing the cashmere shoving it to the bottom of the cupboard I wouldn’t be in this mess 😭

Take the jumpers out of the water, try and remove excess water by patting with towel etc. Gently rub all over with liquid hand soap. You will need a lot of handsoap for two jumpers. Leave sit for a couple of hours and rub again. Handwash and dry as normal.

Ideally you'd have blotted as much oil as possible with kitchen towel first.

A lanolin based wool wash might be worth a try.

If they become felted by the soaking, you need to soak them in fabric conditioner, but they may not recover once felted.

I would take them to a really good dry cleaner and let them try and help.