Napkins and Gravy

Sorry........they are 100% cotton in a red-rust shade with polyester appliques....thread is poly.

"Pat in Arkansas" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

if you didn't dry them in a dryer... try soaking in hot water & oxyclean (i prefer the baby version without detergent). if you already put them through the dryer, i have no idea :( lee

Try pretreating with Dawn liquid detergent, and then washing them, again.

arlene

"Pat in Arkansas" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

I use WD40 for grease on cotton.

Lighter fluid is always my stand-by.

G'day Pat

I use Sard spray (made in Australia) but assume there would be something similar, maybe even the same name, in the laundry detergent aisle of your supermarket.

Failing that.....Turps (Turpentine) would remove the grease, then use a good quality laundry detergent to remove the turps. As has been mentioned do NOT use any heat on the stains as this could 'set' them.

Also.......do NOT use turps while your dryer or washing machine is in use, one spark and you could be history. Any petroleum based sprays are best used in a well ventilated area, preferably outdoors.

Hope you can get remove the stains. Bronwyn ;-)

Pat > My beautiful Thanksgiving napkins that were embroidered to match my

Try spot-treating with shampoo or dish detergent; hold overnight, rinse in hot water, then toss in a hot wash with a good laundry detergent. Poly will usually pick up and hold grease; cotton will release it.

Gojo or similar waterless handcleaners (not the pumice variety, just the plain sort) are also useful for degreasing cloth.

Kay

Thanks for all the help! I am trying things........surely one of these cures will work!!

Pat,

My stand by is oxiclean. Soak them. If that doesn't work, try Biz. That's what I use on my family linens. Like the tablecloth DH's grandmother crocheted, etc. Soak in one, wash w/no more soap in washer, soak in the other if needed. ;) Between the two, they usually take out everything. I usually fill the laundry sink or the bathtub with fairly hot water, dissolve the oxiclean or biz (don't use them together) then add whatever I'm soaking. I usually leave them either all day long or overnight. If that will take out 40 years of nicotine from things that were in Gramma's house.... ;)

Good luck!!!!

Sharon

After spending 20+ years working heavy construction and a single Mom with 3 boys I've had every kind of grease and petroleum based stain there is. Simple Green worked well on most everything, including the little white dog that was greasy from crawling under the pick-up. I always bought the biggest, cheapest bottle of plain shampoo to run over collars and cuffs, it's formulated to remove "body oil & gunk". Really bad grease, oil and diesel stains from work had waterless hand cleaner rubbed in well and then washed as usual. I also always soaked baby clothes overnight in Biz to get out those weird stains usually caused from iron fortified food. My grandmother used to get a bar of Fels Naptha soap and grate it into a quart jar and then pour boiling water on it then screwed down the lid. This "jelly" was rubbed into all stains with a little brush and it took care of everything. I used to use it very successfully too but now I can't find the bars of it.

Val

I had poly cotton napkins with the grease stains that had gone through the dryer and "Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send" wrote in message news:438d449c$0$38645$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net...

"Valkyrie" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@jetspin.drizzle.com:

Fels Naptha soap

If none of those fantastic sounding remedies work.....send it to the dry cleaners and ask them to launder it. They often can get things out that I have given up on. We deserve to send things to the laundry sometimes.........forget the cost and treat yourself! "Sharon Hays" skrev i melding news:OIojf.33803$4l5.28870@dukeread05...

My favorite stain remover, especially anything wtih fat/grease/oil is Spray and Wash Stain Stick. I put it on and let it sit a few days then wash in warm water. I have gotten out every imaginable kind of grease stain (I am assuming the stains are from the fat/oil/grease in the gravy). My husband works in a shop and gets black machine grease on his clothes, I have even been able to get that out without fail from all his woven shirts (by scrubbing with the edge of my nail, see below). We love cotton knit shirts but often fat/grease/oil stains just won't wash out. I have taken them, after drying them in the dryer, treated them, rewashed and the stains have come out.

Sometimes you have to put it on and take your fingernail and scrape at the stain to squeeze it (the grease) out of the fibers. The edge of a spoon also works. Place it on the top of your washer single layer and just scrape at it, back and forth, back and forth, using your nail or the edge or a spoon. Don't use a brush, it just makes the clothing fuzzy. Just be sure to put more back on, and I treat the front and back of a stain.

Nothing works better. I have stain sticks in both bathrooms, in the laundry room and my husband has one at work. But you can really rescue things that you missed and washed if you have to. I just try to get the stain as I am taking it off (thus the one in the bathroom) so it sits a few days in the dirty clothes with the stain stick working on the stain before I wash it.

Jann

Thank you Jan......all of you have given me real hope!!

One more note, Spray and Wash Spray does not work nearly as well. I don't buy it at all. The stick is like a stick of deodorant, it goes on thick, and stays on without drying out.

Jann