Washing Woes

[SoupDragon]

My dear dear DS2 managed to put a greasy handprint, right on the breast, on my new red wine coloured top. It's cotton, and has been washed once to no avail. How do I get the greasy mark out?

Vanish stain stick?
Ace gentle bleach?
Something else magical???

I only wore it for about an hour!!

Thanks

I'm good at getting greasy spots on things, particularly that area so I sympathise. A bit late now, but next time use fairy liquid, put it on the stain and squeeze and rub gently, rinse under tap and wash in normal way. Might still be worth a try.

The other stuff I use if i have forgotten about it and only discover it when I've washed it is Stain devils everyday by Rescue, in a white bottle with yellow top. Smells foul but works. HTH!

Good work choosing a top where a red wine spill won't show

Alibubbles recommendations are right - or else try Vanish stain stick, its pretty good. I wouldn't try the bleach, it might ruin the top.

I'll give it a go with Tesco's washing up liquid. I honestly assumed it was going to come out first time - it wasn't even a dirty greasy hand print IYSWIM!

Enid, although clearly it would have been better had I chosen a greasy handprint coloured top Kind of sums up how my life has changed really!!

Shampoo is also excellent for oily stains. Also fanastic for handwashing bras! Gets all that grey out brilliantly. Oh, God, has it come to this...

Can I add my stain problem? How do you get nail varnish out of a carpet? Nail polish remover just dilutes it and spreads it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

I haven't checked if it helps with these particular queries - but I've often found this a good source for ideas on difficult cleaning problems - www.howtocleananything.com

Right chaps - try this site.

www.stainfree.com/

Sorry don't know how to do those link thingys.

Washing ? sort of. I've got a lovely fleecy skirt that's gone all clingy and staticky. Any remedies?

Spray it with hair serum. Its got silicon in it and stops clothes clinging.

Cor, thanks, Enid. So quick off the mark, too! I'll get some on my way home & let you know whether it works tomorrow.

OK, I've got another domestic problem. I have a pair of black needlecord jeans that are covered in fluff. I've tried wiping them with damp rubber gloves but it just pulls the fluff into little balls which still stick to the jeans.
Any ideas?

sellotape ...wrap it around your hand

Better still, that fat brown warehouse tape they use in postrooms for big parcels.
BTW, Enid, just popped into chemists and they have two types of hair serum, neither of which have silicon in. Worth a try or should I try another chemists?

Too late now Soupdragon - but grease stains ARE one thing dry cleaners are good for AS LONG AS you haven't let any water near it. So don't mop it with a wet cloth or wash it or anything like that. Once it's been washed/"watered" it makes it more difficult - but it may be worth taking it to a dry cleaners for their opinion.

I've got some 'shine booster spray' by Citre Shine - I spray it on my tights to stop skirts sticking to them (and it makes the hairs on my legs shiny ha ha).

Soupdragon. Do you have a COSTCO near you? they do a fantastic commercial cleaning agent called JOBMASTER multipurpose. It comes in a 5 litre container. I use it in a spray for pre-wash for stains. It takes motor oil out of paving stones and my husbands hands after servicing the car. It will probably even sort out your nail polish problem, Tinker. It really cleans anything off anything and is about the only cleaning agent I keep in the house (because it is also biodegradable)

The ultimate solution for grease stains: Talcum Powder!!!!
Powder it onto the stain and leave overnight. Next day brush off and stain is gone! I find that with silk you don't even have to wash the thing afterwards. With t-shirt type cotton, you usually have to wash it to get the talcum powder out. And the magical thing is that it doesn't affect colored fabrics like a lot of other stain removers do.

Along the same line as the talcum powder solution:

Lay down a terry towel and liberally sprinkle an area roughly the size of the grease stain with baking soda (bicarbonate). Lay the stained area of the garment on the baking soda, and coat the exposed side of the stain with baking soda as well. Cover with another terry cloth and weight down with a heavy book. For some reason the baking soda sucks out the grease, leaving you a manageable soil to launder out!

Enid ? thanks for your tip. Couldn't find any hair serum with silicon in at the chemists, but got home and suddenly remembered Mr Sheen has silicon in. Quick spray down both legs plus the inside of the skirt ? sorted! (Mind you, I do smell a bit odd. Perhaps I should have used the lavender rather than the beeswax, but couldn't lay my hands on it!) xxxxx and may all your xmas dreams (oops, nearly wrote 'dramas'!) come true!

The washing up liquid didn't work (sob) If only I'd tried all of these things before washing it. I really say no reason that it wouldn't come out first time though.