If they have Zote or Fels-Naptha bars in your area, (they are very inexpensive, in the laundry aisle) you can pick up one of those. Wet the bar, wet your collar, rub the bar into the collar. Get a small, medium bristled brush, or even a toothbrush works well, get a little of the bar on your brush and scrub. After pre-scrubbing, launder as usual.

You need a pretreater with lipase or phosphodiesterase/dnase/nuclease.

What part of the world are you in?

Whatever their standard one is is what I have. With all of them, the longer you leave it on, the better it will work.

Several years ago America's Test Kitchen did a test of stain removers, and Oxyclean's won, hands down, so that's how I started using it

Zout

Fels Naptha laundry bar/stain remover is a classic: long-lasting, inexpensive, and effective.

For specific stains I use the Carbona products.

Oxyclean's stain remover seems to be the best.

I use the Oxyclean that comes in a tube with blue gel. The scrubbing top on stains works really well if the stains are fresh. Sometimes hard to find, so I buy several tubes of this stuff.

OxiClean Max Force Gel Stick, 6.2 Oz.

What's the stain?

The process is different if you have a turmeric stain from curry splatter on a green hoodie or a pint of blood from a stolen kidney on your white shirt.

Oxiclean is just sodium perborate powder. Dollarama sells their own brand for less and Resolve oxygen bleach as well for less. All the same thing.

Wet the stain, add the powder to it, and some Dawn dish soap, which is excellent for grease, scrub it in with something like a potato brush, let it sit for a while, then wash in cold and inspect after washing. If it is still there, repeat. Do not dry it if the stain is still present, as the heat will set the stain.

Oxi clean multipurpose baby stain remover. It comes in a spray bottle and if you have any stains just spray it into the stain, rub it in, then throw it in the laundry basket and forget about it. When you do laundry it will wash right out 👍

Oxi clean or resolve

The Oxiclean powder is the best stain remover. Wet the shirt with hot water and add the powder to the stain. Work the powder into the stain. Leave the shirt soaking overnight with a bit more powder and then launder as usual with your other laundry. It should come out.

I recently had a bad pasta sauce stain in one of my shirts and it took a couple of washes but it came out using this method.

agreed. white vingar and white wine too. key is to dump cold water on the stain asap, if the material can handle cold water. 90% will come out in next wash if you do that.

Tooth paste , baking soda

They go away after a few washes eventually

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Depends on the stain and the fabric.

Generally, an immediate hand wash of the area with cold water run through the fabric from the opposite side of the stain will help.

Ugh yes I love this one!! Works so well. If its a white item that really needs TLC, I spray it on the item then let it sit for a few days. Then let it soak in water + the whitening oxiclean overnight and then throw it in the wash the next morning. Comes out perfect

ive only heard great things about this stuff. I think its owed to the fact that it uses everything thats usually in oxiclean plus enzymes (like spray and wash)

I’ve never used the spray, only the gel. It works really well, but I had to stop using it because the scent is so strong it gets in all my other clothes in the load. I’m super sensitive to smells.

I found the “wash in the warmest water the fabric can handle” to be kind of oddly phrased. Is cold water never a good option?

This actually got broth stains that had settled in months ago to come out albeit it took a few washes. Didn’t even ruin the design on the shirt!

Saliva tbh. Its made of 2 things, 1 is antibacterial to a point and the other has bicarbonate ions and enzymes that dissolve things. Saliva is honestly the best option for things like blood removal but also most organic things can be dissolved by the enzymes in saliva.

Also tonic water

If the stains come from people, animals or plant matter, or anything they can eat or drink, pick one of these:

• Puracy Stain Remover
• Tide Rescue (discontinued, but old formula is still in the marketplace - you want the bottle with RESCUE on the front label)
• Melaleuca Pre-Spot Gel or Prespot 4X spray
• Sprouts Laundry Stain Remover
• Dad Mode
• 365 By Whole Foods Stain Remover

Any of them work well. Spray, wait at least a half hour, wash as usual.

If your usual stains aren’t from these sources, there may be better choices.

Oxiclean

Fels naphtha

Simple green.

Secret Weapon: Goop.

Way under the radar. Never had something it couldn’t handle. Originally developed as a waterless hand cleaner for mechanics. Turns out it’s amazing on laundry stains. Best part is it isn’t hard on clothes. So if you stain something, you can rub Goop into it, chuck it in the hamper, leave it for a week, and then wash it. (Sometimes even works better that way.)

I’ve found that liquid detergents, like Tide Ultra Stain Release or Persil Liquid, when poured directly on stains works better than many pretreaters.

Something worth trying!

This one, its refill

Don’t leave it sit as it can leech color if you leave it on a long long time. I usually spray and start washer 15 min later. If that doesnt work, original blue Dawn takes care of most everything else. Most importantly, do not heat dry until you know stain is removed.

Sunshine works wonders kind of bleaching them. Do it after you’ve done a good hot wash with OxiClean. Try to orient the stains directly at the sun.

First, I've tried them all. At least one version of all the major brands. I've found the single best item is Fels-Naptha. But to really get the stains out, I will spray with Shout, or the Pink Stuff or Oxi Clean spray, get the material wet (on top of the washing machine or counter-hard surface) and then peel back the fels naptha and grind it in. The moisture from the spray, allow the soap bar (yes, its soap vs detergent) to really separate from the bar. Let it sit for at least 10 minutes. wash with triple the amount of normal detergent. If using liquid, I'll pour some of the detergent on top of stain as well, and try and work it in by stretching the material/fibers without doing it too much (don't want to damage material), extra rinse and repeat if necessary. Wash in really hot water. Do not put, still stained clothes into the dryer, it will likely set the stain. But, I've made a home solution that contains a mixture of a few of the sprays, then add fels naptha solution (hot water and shavings of the fels napthat until dissolved) That works wonders. But for one single item, if you were stuck on an island and had to choose, I'd go with Fels Naptha. And its dirt cheap. Its a bar of soap. Also, I've included the Spray foam Dawn into things too. Especially if the stain has grease as a component of whatever spilled. Like Bolognese sauce, has beef fat in it. I've got a 5 and 7 year old, who think their shirts are napkins...with a real napkin sitting right in front of them. Its hard to break bad habits.