What are your tips for removing stains? See what Mumsnet users shared with Fairy Non Bio

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Mums(netters) know best when it comes to stain removal and that’s why Fairy Non Bio wants to hear about the stain removing secrets you have up your sleeve.

Here is what Fairy Non Bio has to say: “With the summer holidays on the horizon, we know all those BBQs with ketchup, Pimms and playing on the grass is going to give you a bit more of a challenge with your laundry. What are your quick tricks of the trade when faced with a stain?”

What’s your go-to method for removing red wine stains? Do you use the classic technique of adding white wine straight away, or is there a trick that we’re missing? Do you use kitchen staples for stain removal: perhaps vinegar or salt? Perhaps you have a method for removing tough grease stains that you swear by?

Whatever your methods are, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher for a store of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck

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washing up liquid on grease stains always removes it, squirt on, rub together and then soak in hot water.
put it in the machine and it removes it.

Depends very much on the cause of the stain but blotting with dry paper towel/any clean (old) material. Then wet blotting with cold water or washing machine asap works for me a lot of the time.

I have heard the most wonderful advice today. I have yet to try it out myself, but it sounded amazing, so I thought I’d share.
If you get a tomato stain on clothing, wash the item of clothing, then put it out in the sun whilst still damp. Apparently, the sunshine takes the stain away.

Take my contact lenses out so everything is blurry / care less about laundry :)

I pre soak ASAP and get them washed the next day. I've tried various stain removers and haven't found them very good to be honest.

My husband often spills red wine on himself when he falls asleep on the sofa. He soaks his shirt in a basin with some Vanish Gold, then washes it in a 30c cycle with a bit more Vanish Gold in the drum. I can't tell you how many shirts have been rescued this way over the years!

My vanish stick seems to clean most stains. I soak the item asap then rub the vanish stick over the stain. Wash as normal and tumble dry (because I don’t have a line). If I don’t have any vanish then liquid soap works just as well.

Vinegar or vodka, and dried in the sun!

Increasingly, I am finding that my choice in detergent is governed more by what won't leave residue in the machine more than by scent. Most liquid detergents are dismissed for precisely this reason - after a while, they leave a manky damp smell in the drum. But I also try to go non-bio, as my DD sometimes has ezcema flare-ups related to specific brands.

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I use baby wipes to get as much of the fresh stain off as possible. Then into the wash with Vanish.

my tips are biro marks - full fat milk, lipstick - hairspray - tomato ketchup - white vinegar. The into the washing machine on 40.

Washing-up liquid and a microfibre cloth.

We have a stain bucket. Bucket half filled with water and a cap of vanish powder. As soon as something is stained it goes in there rather than the laundry basket and soaks until it is washed in the machine. Was a life saver when DS was going through his poonami stage!

My nuclear option is nail polish remover, which dissolves all kinds of marks that nothing else will.

Agree that cold water is key for blood. Warm or hot water sets the stain. Early stain removal is key.

White toothpaste is good for biro marks

White vinegar.
I've used vanish oxyaction in the washing machine.
However grease wise I've not found that anything works. My child uses Vaseline a lot and it ends up on clothes and I have to throw them. So any advice appreciated!

Most stains I soak in cold water with soda crystals. Another vote for leaving in the sunshine to dry - bleaches all those stubborn tomato stains!!

I think you have to deal with a stain as soon as possible after it has occurred to make it efficient.
I use a stain remover bar and I also use my persil small and mighty washing liquid massaged in with my dosing device. This usually does the trick

First things first, rinse the clothes in cold water. Then I apply a removing agent, like soda crystals and shirt if white vinegar.

I always leave stained whites on the line for the sun to bleach them.

Don't let the stain dry in, soak in cold water, wash and then hang out in the sun.

Vanish is top
Alternatively leave in sun or fresh air
Sea air is great .. obviously not everyone lives by the sea

Grass stains on clothes can be removed with an old toothbrush and plain white toothpaste; just make sure you use a paste variety and not a gel. Squeeze a small amount of the toothpaste onto the stain, then dip the toothbrush in clean water and use it to scrub away the stain. Repeat this process as needed to treat all of the stain/s. Rinse the area and launder the clothing as usual.