Friday, August 17, 2007

Laundry Cleaning Solutions

Crayon–washed and dried removal:

1. Take off as much wax as possible.

2. Take liquid Wisk and Peanut Butter and smear over the crayon spots.

3. Use NO Bleach!! including liquid Wisk with bleach.

4. Rinse clothes and then wash and dry clothes again.

**Crayola has stain tips guide on their website but I have found this to actually work better!**


This next one is great for those baby formula stains, those crayon marks that you find on clothes before you dry them, it has even worked on tempera paint removal from clothes(doesn't get all of it but makes the clothes look good enough to not have to dump them) , I have used on many stains and have great to good results with it. **This is good for colored clothes as well...use with caution–some colored clothes are not color-fast and colors will fade from bleach.**


“Magic Solution”

½ cup automatic dishwasher soap to ½ cup bleach mixed into 2 gallons of water.

Put soap in with as hot of water as possible. Stop running water pour bleach into water, stir in completely. Then place clothes in solution. Let soak.


Ink or Permanent Marker Stains(in clothes or carpet!):

Good old hairspray!!

hairspray and a dry cloth rag(that you can throw away!). Don't use paper towels as they will just shred. Spray the spots let sit for about 20 seconds for the hairspray to start working and then blot out the ink from the carpet or clothes. Repeat til the spots are gone. The trick is to not let the hair spray sit too long as it can have the opposite effect and set the ink into the carpet or clothes for that matter.Then after you have the ink out I use some carpet cleaner to get the sticky film from the hairspray out of the carpet. For clothes, I wash them immediately.

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