Best stain remover for baby poo

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Hello

My friend is pregnant with her first baby and has asked about good stain removers, especially ones that get baby poo stains out of babygros. When DD was little I used to use a fab spray called Baby Oxy, which used to be stocked in Boots. I haven't seen it for ages and I've used Shout, Oxy powder and one in a white pot from Lakeland to poor effect on some of DD's more recent 'efforts'. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've a feeling she'll need something!

thanks

When I was using washable nappies hanging them outside to dry in the sunshine was magic for removing poo stains.

Sunlight.

Just leave it on the washing line for a few days and it zaps the poo stains out.

My 2 had excema so stain removers irritated their skin.

the sun. it is the best for getting anything out apart from banana stains. nothing gets banana stains out I have found.
Just hang the washing stain facing the direct sun for a day or so, voila.

Sunlight.

It doesn't have to be bright direct sun (lukily), even indoors on the windowsill in winter poo stains dissapear really quickly.

sunlight.

Def sunlight - leave them on a windowsill, and even if it isn't bright it gets it out

also if you sling the item into soak before the stain has time to dry, it comes out better. But maybe this is an obvious move to someone not as domestically challenged as me?!

We have a skylight at the top of our loft conversion with a ledge underneath for our clothes rack. The sun shines right into it, means all our white washing is sparkly even when the weather is too bad to hang it outside.

banana is the worst, little banana fibres get right in and get brown urghhh!

and if you happen to have a little chunk of banana still hidden somewhere, then you find all your clothes come out of the machine covered in the damned thing...or maybe that is just my own personal nightmare.

buy cheap vests from tesco or similar and ditch them when they're full of poo.

Seriously... sometimes you have to cut the clothes off a newborn before they have poo up to their necks [boak]

I hate the way you suddenly find that spreading stain up the back

and you unpop the vest and the stream of horror just keeps going up and up and up

hurg

keep scissors near the change table, so you don't have to rush for the bathroom cupboard, in horror that your faeces-covered 8wo is somehow going to launch themselves off the mat

Poo-coloured babygros?

Apparently my grandmother swore by leaving them on the grass. Maybe there's something extra in the grass, and maybe partly the sunlight effect.

Thanks all, I will pass on the sunlight tip to her, though I think they should make more brown babygros from a practical point of view!

I remember well the horror of undressing your cute teeny baby and seeing them covered in poo almost up to the back of their neck (barf emocion)

Oh I don't mind a teeny baby poonami, but a toddler one is beyond hell.

I was going to suggest sunshine too.

Poo coloured babygrow.
Banana ain't never commin' out!

I used to soak them in bio-tex (which is biological so may not be suitable for sensitive skins) and then wash them in non-bio wash liquid. Gets most of the stain out.

CrankyTwanky gosh thats expensive! 19.00 for a babygrow!

I rub it under running warm water with green Fairy soap (the big 'washing' bars, not something you'd use on your skin) and then either put straight in washer (don't need to rinse off soap) or soak in a bucket of water and Napisan. Always works and doesn't matter if you don't do it straightaway.

Also worked on my own clothes as DD2 had a very "explosive" habit!!!

Agree with sunlight suggestion. It's verging on the magical how a seemingly indelible poo stain will vanish in sunlight.

But also agree that there is no going back from a banana stain. Bananas are evil.

Definitely sunlight - or moonlight - or snow/rain/cloud-light

Works for nearly all food and bodily fluid type stains, aside from banana (which is evil).