Grease Stains

[SamSpade]

Is there a reliable way to get SET IN grease stains off clothing? I hate the fact that some clothes, once stained, are ruined. Permanently.

If you have actually found a way to remove SET stains - like, older stains - of grease on clothes. I keep pulling summer clothes out and finding they had a stain when I put them away for the winter.

 

[PJay]

Try Dawn dish liquid and a toothbrush. Works more times than not..for me.

 

[SamSpade]

Try Dawn dish liquid and a toothbrush. Works more times than not..for me.

I've had success on RECENT stains - has it worked for you on old ones?

 

[PJay]

I've had success on RECENT stains - has it worked for you on old ones?

Yes. Some of them.

 

[PJay]

I know you are looking for "reliable" but I've had no luck there. Never hurts to try.

 

[Gilligan]

I soak my really greasy shop clothes in a 5-gallon bucket with nearly 100% SuperClean or Purple Power. Three or 4 days..rinse in water, run through normal wash cycle.

 

[SamSpade]

I soak my really greasy shop clothes in a 5-gallon bucket with nearly 100% SuperClean or Purple Power. Three or 4 days..rinse in water, run through normal wash cycle.

Do they come out church going clean of grease? Or regular work shop clothing free - ish - of grease.

I must have a dozen or more nice polo shirts ruined by a little grease stain from a spill at dinner time. Ditto dress shirts - and I'm leaning towards always wearing either T-shirts I don't give a crap about, or shirts with so much mixed colors that the stains aren't visible (really garish Hawaiian type shirts).

 

[Gilligan]

Do they come out church going clean of grease? Or regular work shop clothing free - ish - of grease.

I must have a dozen or more nice polo shirts ruined by a little grease stain from a spill at dinner time. Ditto dress shirts - and I'm leaning towards always wearing either T-shirts I don't give a crap about, or shirts with so much mixed colors that the stains aren't visible (really garish Hawaiian type shirts).

The latter, mostly, but I've had some success removing grease/oil type stains from nicer clothing too...typically something I shouldn't have been wearing when I stepped in to some project without changing clothes.

 

[Sneakers]

If I have any clue I'm going to be doing something dirty or greasy, I put on clothes that just don't matter. If they get stained, so what.

 

[SamSpade]

If I have any clue I'm going to be doing something dirty or greasy, I put on clothes that just don't matter. If they get stained, so what.

Well me too - I just don't expect a little drip of say, butter or sauce from my meal to drip on my shirt - and for it to be ruined for good.
I swear, it sure seems to me that clothes I had growing up were a little more stain resistant.

 

[Sneakers]

Well me too - I just don't expect a little drip of say, butter or sauce from my meal to drip on my shirt - and for it to be ruined for good.
I swear, it sure seems to me that clothes I had growing up were a little more stain resistant.

Ok. When you said grease, my mind went right to the stuff you lube cars with.....

How about a bib?

 

[RoseRed]

Shout it out.

 

[PJay]

 

[SamSpade]

Ok. When you said grease, my mind went right to the stuff you lube cars with.....

How about a bib?

You can get stains out with a bib?

But this happens to me often - the shirt I am WEARING - I work from home - has a grease stain. I pulled it out of storage this morning, put it on and walked past the mirror and thought "ah crap - I hate throwing away shirts!".

 

[Sneakers]

Shout it out.

I was a big fan of Shout until it did this to one of my new t-shirts...
Now I tread a lot more lightly using it.

 

[RoseRed]

I was a big fan of Shout until it did this to one of my new t-shirts...
Now I tread a lot more lightly using it.

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I've never had that happen.

 

[Sneakers]

I've never had that happen.

I suspect it was the shirt.... poor choice of color-fast dyes.

 

[PJay]

You can get stains out with a bib?

But this happens to me often - the shirt I am WEARING - I work from home - has a grease stain. I pulled it out of storage this morning, put it on and walked past the mirror and thought "ah crap - I hate throwing away shirts!".

It may be mouse pee..depending on how you store your clothes.

 

[RoseRed]

I suspect it was the shirt.... poor choice of color-fast dyes.

That would be my guess.

 

[SamSpade]

It may be mouse pee..depending on how you store your clothes.

More like COW pee - or a really big mouse.

But actually, do you remember, as a kid, having clothes ruined by grease? As in, one juicy hamburger or hot dog, and it's all she wrote?