Yellow persperation stains. Ughhhhhhh?
Question:Can anyone tellme what the best way to remove yellow persperation stains from clothes? Also... does anyone know why they are yellow LOL... It ruines so many nice white shirts ... grrrrr
Answers:
1 cup powdered Clorox 2 or similar product
1 cup Cascade dishwashing detergent
1 cup Calgon water softening powder (I used the liquid version of the same product)
I suggest you try this method late afternoon. The clothes need to soak overnight.
Use a CLEAN tub or bucket. Place ingredients into tub/bucket and pour boiled, FILTERED water and very, very hot tap water. Wearing gloves, swish the water around until the ingredients dissolve (as much as possible). Plunge your white shirts into the tub/bucket and (remember your rubber gloves!) agitate the water a bit with the clothes. Let sit for a couple of hours. Next, take dry baking soda and work into the yellow stains while still they are still soaking. Add extra baking soda to the tub. If the stains are extremely bad, add a bit more Cascade and agitate again. Let sit.
Check on the tub from time to time during the evening. I kept using more baking soda on the underarms and I also kept 'refreshing' the filtered/boiled water and extra hot tap water.
Before you go to bed, refresh the water again, and if you like, the ingredients as well. (This is what I did.) The next morning, wring out the clothes and launder them in the hottest water you think is safe. I do my wash at the local laundro and even though clothes called for cold water I used hot. I also made a paste of baking soda/water and rubbed into underarms before the machine-wash. (What did I have to lose?) I let them air dry in my apt. Amazingly, the stains were gone. I took them outside and looked in bright sunlight...not a trace of yellow.
If your shirts are 100% cotton, you can wash them with bleach. Then add about 1 measuring cup of bleach to a load of clothes in the washer. (You may want to soak the stained areas in pure bleach for a minute or two before putting them in the washer - just be sure pets/kids can't get into it. Don't soak much longer than that or bleach can damage the fabric). If the clothes are made of synthetics, don't bleach as that can cause stains, but check in the laundry section of the grocery store & there are specific products made now that say they remove yellow stains - seems like the Rits or Ritz brand is one type. Try that. Try changing the brand of deodorant you use too, as sometimes that can cause the stains.
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I get those stains all the time. I use oxi clean to pretreat the stains and then I put bleach in with the white shirts. This works for me. My husband tells me if I can't get a stain out I'll wash it till it's just a rag or the stain is out.
Believe it or not sweat is very similar to urine. Both contain urea described as the end product of protein decomposition and key component in mammal (human and animal) urine. The difference is that the amount of urea in perspiration is very dilute 1/130th compared to the concentration in urine.
To remove stains:
Try 1 cup ammonia & 3 cups water. First treatment Fresh stains can be treated with a solution of ammonia and water then rinse.
Second treatment Dab with white vinegar solution l/3 teaspoons vinegar to 1/2 pint water, and leave for 5 minutes then soak in detergent and wash in the normal manner.
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