My greed has ruined my cashmere hoodie. Can you help?

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I have ruined my lovely, soft, cosy, cuddlesome, cure-all-ills-of-the-day cashmere hoodie. I know. I was distracted by some world crisis or other kids rowing and I hid accidentally placed my favourite fancy Xmas chocolate, that was for ME ONLY the last one of Xmas , in my hoodie pocket so I could scoff it and not have to share it could eat it graciously at my leisure. But yes, waah, I forgot about it. And it melted . Yes it was my Xmas greed

I’ve washed it in Woolite in the machine, and it’s a bit better but still quite stained. What else can I try?

I don’t know but don’t use vanish as that ruined mine

Dry cleaners could spot clean it maybe?

Where do you buy a cashmere hoodie from?

Soak it in a bucket of Biotex and lukewarm water for at least 24 hours. Then take out, squeeze out excess liquid, spray Shout liberally on the stain and rub the Shout in really well. Then wash in machine (20 or 30 degrees). I’ve got chorizo stew (paprika stain basically) out of cream cashmere this way.

Cashmere hoodies and trackie bottoms are currently on sale in our local Tesco. So cosy.

If I was intending to eat chorizo stew in a cream cashmere sweater I would definitely need a bib!

Fairy liquid rubbed gently into the dry stain & then rinsed with cold water initially and then warm water. This gets most stains out but it’s better doing this to pretreat before the main wash. If it’s a light colour some stains can be bleached in the sun. I find cashmere quite durable as long as you avoid rubbing too much and too high a temperature.

Thank you everyone.

I got it in La Refoute (with % off). It’s v nice, I have felt cashmere a bit softer but it’s still lovely. So nice to wear. And has lasted quite well. Until I became greedy
I’m looking at it here in the cold light of day and it’s the oily stain that’s most noticeable. I’m going to try fairy liquid as clearly this is an emergency and I need the quickest fix. If it doesn’t work I’ll find some Biotex. If it took out chorizo oil, surely it could tackle a simple chocolate!

I use the persil wool wash liquid and find it really good (and it smells lovely) - maybe try soaking it in a bucket of that - it's very gentle on wool - and then another wool wash cycle in the machine. Failing that - a patch? Nice flower patch :-)

napisan? I sympathize, I've ruined a few precious jumpers dumping them into a general wash whilst being scatterbrained. I reckon fairy is the best stain remover I've found and I've tried most

I was going to say fairy too.

How big is the stain? Could you add a design feature to it, like a big button on each pocket?

Assuming the above fixes don't work, just chuck it in a normal 40% wash with bio washing powder/liquid. I've done that with the odd cashmere jumper that I think is ruined because of a grease mark or similar and they've a) survived perfectly fine and b) the marks have gone.

I do treat my cashmere more kindly than this normally, obviously, but if you're thinking it's ruined then better giving it a try than chucking it!

Don’t put cashmere in warm water! You might get the stain out but you will most likely shrink it. Try and get the worst out with natural cleaners, however you might need to wait for a sunny day for the sun to get that stain out!

Napisan eats wool and cashmere, shudder. Buy a special wool wash.

Oh the stain is about the size of half my hand. So my four fingers. Yes yes it was a fine fat chocolate A button wouldn’t cover half of it.

The sheets are in the wash atm and I’ll do the fairy thing after and keep you posted.

It is a life lesson. Don’t be greedy. Better to share your chocolate than have none at all and ruin your clothes . Dagnammit tho. I just wanted to eat it by myself and all myself!!

If it's grease then fairy will get it out . Or dry cleaning

What colour is the hoodie?

Spirited oh no, I didn’t try eating the chorizo in the cream cashmere ... just moved it on the hob and it splashed 🙀 but the Biotex and Shout did the trick

WonderWoman Hoodie is grey

So. Update. I know you all can’t wait to hear how my washing went
Good news really. Oily stain is gone!! Yay! And no apparent damage to the hoodie. I’m delighted! There is a faint chocolate brown stain, about 50p size but it’s not that bad and a couple of more washes and I think it’ll fade further.

So thanks everyone. And teta and Biscuit. And I know now not to be greedy about chocolate And that fairy liquid is pretty magic!