In the buffet line at a friend's wedding about 6 years ago, I set the
salad plate down while I ladled something onto the entree plate. The
salad plate dumped itself all down the front of my new skirt
(fortunately, it had enough of a pattern that it didn't scream across
the room...). I used Spray 'n' Wash, I think, and it all came out of
the polyester. That or the stain stick, or K2R spot remover,
generally works on my cotton turtlenecks which act as magnets for
salad dressing and Chinese sauces.
Spray'n'Wash now has a liquid form you can dump in with the laundry,
but for something this major, I'd go for something directly applied.
Don't know what's similar in the UK to K2R or Spray 'n Wash.
At 8:51 PM -0400 4/12/06, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Apr 12, 2006, at 17:33, Lynne Cumming wrote:
Please oh please can someone help me! Having bought a new pair of jeans at a
price I wouldn't normally pay (from Marks & Spencer's no less!) but did
because they fitted and were comfy - I went and knocked a bottle of garlic
oil (olive oil base) over and it went down both legs. I washed them with
Ariel and once dry saw the stains were still there,
Eek. Hope the wash had not *set* the stains; my general "policy" is
"treat first, wash second, panic last". Can't find my "Household
Hints" book to check (I'm old enough to go to books before I go to
Internet <g>), but "getting rid of oil stains" brought a whole slew
of "oil stains removal" responses on Google, so that might be a
route to take.
This said... :)
Years and years ago, I accidentally dribbled some salad oil (home
made: olive oil and cider vinegar, garlic, mustard powder, salt,
pepper) on a (pure cotton) skirt I rather liked, and *nothing*
worked to remove that "stainless glass look" from the spots -- not
treatment, not washing. The skirt ended up in a "I'll think about it
one day" pile for a couple of years.
Then I went to UK (Oxford) in '88 and discovered a "miracle soap" --
a *cake* of something called "Vanish". It was not the same thing as
our (US) Vanish. And the cake is not the same as the foam and liquid
forms of UK Vanish which appeared later (got those in '98 and am not
at all happy with them). But it seemed to be coping with stains
better than anything else I'd ever encountered, without leaving a
big pale blob in place of the stain.
So, as the last resort, I dampened the oily spot with cool water (as
recommended; the cake version of Vanish was originally formulated as
a laundry aid for campers who had little access to hot water) and
rubbed the soap into the stain. Left the soap-lather in for about 45
minutes (*not* as recommended <g>) before tossing the skirt (*not*
rinsed out) into the washing machine with other laundry. The skirt
came out pristine -- neither the oily spot nor a "spot after spot"
was to be seen.
It's just *too bad* that I only got to enjoy the skirt for another
couple of years, after which my waist-line began its
middle-age-creep-up (*extremely* annoying, especially since my
*weight* has remained the same. Nobody likes to look like a hot dog
<g>)...
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