Which stains do you worry about most? Find out what Mumsnet users told Fairy Non Bio

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It’s inevitable that clothes sometimes end up dirty and stained, and though you may have handy tips and tricks for removing stains, there might be some that fill you with dread. Fairy Non Bio would like to hear about the stains that you’re most scared of.

Here’s what Fairy Non Bio has to say: “We never want people to be afraid of wearing the clothes they love in case it gets stained. It’s our job to help. We want to know what are the really devilish stains that never seem to budge”.

Do you struggle with mud stains? Maybe your child wiping their hands down their clothes after eating greasy food fill you with dread? Perhaps baby poo stains are your nemesis? Or maybe it’s a spilt glass of wine that you worried may never come out?

Whatever the stains you’re most scared of, share them 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!

MNHQ

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Grass stains and tomato based sauces like bolognese.

Tomato soup, tomato sauce (including homemade), some baby foods and poo stains. Curry stains used to bother me until I was advised to let the sun shine on them.

Nail polish, I am a super clumsy person so it has happened several times and blood

I’m not ‘scared’ of stains - but I think the worst stains are oily ones - cooking oil, butter, chicken fat etc.

I have never found a laundry detergent that gets these out - I have to use a specialist stain remover.

Raspberries would be the top of my list - except my child got hold of a fluorescent marker in bed and the sheet still shows the evidence after many many washes!

Blood.
I mean I can get rid of most stains but blood is a bugger. It gets in all the cracks and crevices. Bleach works but it doesn't break down the enzymes that show up under blue light and then the police have to have a little chat and such... Just a whole crazy pain...

I er?... Mean.. ERM?
Red wine.. definitely... Yup..

Grease and kids paint

Staines in Middlesex is quite scary to a country dweller like me...

Weddings petrify me! My husband is a minister of religion and a certain type of liquid ink has to be used for the register. Most of the time he manages to spill some ink on his clerical clothing or on the beautifully white starched linen cloth on the table where the couple will sign the register. It's a nightmare of note. I have to get the soiled item into water asap and PRAY that it comes out!

Why isn't he washing it?

Semen and general bodily fluid stains on mattresses..

Curry sauce and Ribena juice

Mine are blood, grass and curry! Can never get those three out!

Tomato based sauces.
And whatever ds comes home covered in from nursery. I always have to soak his polo shirts to help get the stains out.

Sun cream and sweat together 😭my favourite white vest top ( my only white vest top!!) now has the yellow tinge on the edges and straps I’m gutted.

Beetroot, to the point that I won’t actually let my children eat it because of the mess they would make!

Also some of the paints and pens my child uses in school are impossible to get out - I thought these things were supposed to be washable!

Permanent marker.
I'm not too terrified of tomato ketchup or tomato sauce stains on white or light coloured clothes now as the key is to immediately remove most of the stain by dabbing/rubbing it with cold water on a cloth/flannel/piece of kitchen roll. Then make sure you hang the item of clothing out on the line (or by a window if raining) so the sun can bleach out any remaining stain traces.

Perhaps the thread title should be renamed as 'What Stains Do Your Head/Nut/Swede in?'

Chocolate spread!

Banana, sun cream, and white board pen from school. All impossible to remove!

Suncream and tomato soup are the worst for me!

Anything containing tomato, red wine and coffee (after its dried)

I'm not scared of stains, stop implying that being frightened of stains is in any way normal.

Sun cream - it just doesn't come out! I've now got a bottle upstairs to put on us before we get dressed, much easier for first application of the day.

I do think that Fairy has done themselves a disservice by patronising us quite so much. What's the betting it was a male brain that came up with the genius marketing idea that women people who do laundry should be frightened into buying their product?

You properly misjudged your demographic there, Fairy Marketing Man. Go and do your own washing now and see how scary it really is.