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.

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

FOLEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.)

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.

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.

Tide Powder with Bleach, Liquid Tide or Liquid Persil…they are always on sale and if you belong to a warehouse club, you will get the best price there.

The less expensive detergents don’t have the same quantity or quality of ingredients that the more expensive ones do which is why they don’t work as well. Aside from that, you only need a minimal amount of a high-quality detergent to clean your clothes; 2-3 tbsp per moderately soiled load. In the long run, they are more cost effective.

Persil does not contain lipase in the US anymore so it’s still okay, but not the best choice. I will post a recent post I made with all the US choices with lipase, and the comments have some other country’s good options with enzymes

Dawn dish soap on the stain

Tide just relaunched their free and clear powder under the name Clean & Gentle. It is a very, very good detergent.

Powders are more effective, and you don't need to use a huge amount to work really well. A lot of people mentioned US brands, not available to everyone. Even ALDI powders here have a decent mix of enzymes and other essential ingredients, and they are usually pretty low prices.

Adding Biz as a booster can make a cheap detergent work better. To get rid of body oils, you need lipase, which is missing from a lot of detergents. Adding Biz, which has lipase, fills that gap and takes care of the oils (which is why your clothes smell funky and gross). Read the ingredient labels in the store to find lipase! (I struggled for years and this was the solution.)

I used Fels-Naptha and have never been disappointed. It works well and is super affordable, I keep a bar by laundry, one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom.

Good old blue dawn dish soap gets out nearly all of the stains I’ve encountered. I always try that first.

Sunshine. It works! Just wet the garment and hang it in the sun. All the stains are gone.

We cloth diaper and a day of drying on the line will get rid of ALL the stains.

Puracy natural stain remover. It’s a little pricey, but 100% worth it and takes out any stain. I won’t buy another stain remover again

oxiclean is my favourite!

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