My kids know how to make a mess when it comes to poop and clothing. Maybe it's a breastmilk thing, but my babies have some major blowouts. Using cloth diapers has helped a ton with Brooklyn, but let me tell you, if she's in a disposable when you hear/smell that thing coming.....look out. As a result, I've had some very stained clothing on my hands. Sometimes I've let the stains set in because I was not at home when the bomb went off, or I was just too busy to deal with it at the time. For a long time, I had a pile of clothes that I had washed several times with no success of removing the stains. I was about to throw them out when I discovered this super simple technique of removing stains. Set the clothes out in the sunlight. Yep, that's it. That's all there is to it. Some people say you can put lemon juice on the clothes first, but I haven't even tried that yet. All I do is put the clothes out on the deck and watch the stains disappear!! Small stains could take an hour or less. Bigger stains take several hours and maybe a couple of days.
Want proof? Here you go!
Stains are completely gone after three hours in the sun!
And look at the improvement of this horrible stain! It should be gone in another day or two.
I'm not sure what all kinds of stains this will work on. But I think it'd be worth a shot to try on just about anything. It's easy, safe for colored clothing, safe for baby clothes, and best of all...it's free!
will this work with say, adult poo? really just curious.
ReplyDeleteI'll put some of Jeremy's poop-stained clothes out tomorrow and get back to you ;)
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