What am I doing wrong?

[Effinglaundry]

My daughters muddy jeans in pic, after a 2 hour, 40 degree wash with non-bio (bio causes rash) liquid detergent.
If you use non bio, have you found one that works???
What else should I be doing?
Other than smelling nice, no clothes get clean and it’s driving me around the twist. Please HELP me 🤯

Clean your washing machine maybe? You can get fluid for it to wipe down the seals and then run an empty hot cycle to flush out the pipes. Also empty the drain, it can breed black mould.

You need to soak them in vanish , spray with vanish and wash at 60 with bio detergent to get that out

You can always wash again with non bio once they are clean

Also if mud isn't fresh it will stain

Do you usually pre-treat stains like this? I’d have probably rinsed them through as soon as they’d been taken off, then either left them soaking in stain remover (a half scoop of vanish powder in a few litres of water) until they went in the washing machine or used a vanish soap bar to rub at the stain before it went in the machine.

Thanks all very much. I’ve now cleaned the machine and it’s on an empty hot wash with soda crystals. The jeans are soaking in vanish oxi advance liquid, which is all I had in the cupboard-which vanish product is best for soaking/treating?
By the time we got back the mud had dried but will pre-soak in future thanks 👍🏾

Same situation with non bio here but sometimes if I have to I use bio for a cycle to lift stains and then a quick wash with non bio to get rid of the bio

I would rub laundry soap or washing up liquid into the stains before washing and try using powder instead of liquid

Def wash at 60'thoigh as jeans can take it . Will help now as stains are washed in !

A smear of fairy liquid worked to lift the stains for me then washed as usual

You’re just as well pre soaking in soda crystals, overnight, then wash, using powder, but on a COOL wash, as a hot wash can set stains. I’ve been cool washing (20°) for a few months and my washing’s never looked better. It feels totally counterintuitive but it really works

I use Persil non bio.

My son comes home literally caked in dried mud every day, Jumper, T-shirt and shorts.

It comes out every time, no soaking or stain remover. On 30 degrees.

I sound like an advert! But honestly, give it a try.

Have to admit it's never terribly satisfactory being a guest in a house where they insist on non-bio, low temperature laundering. Bedlinen never looks properly fresh, and clothes retain traces of their last wear.

I'm always glad to get home to biological powder!

@Effinglaundry I really don't see why you can't wash with bio powder on a higher temperature first, and then re-wash with non-bio to accommodate skin concerns?