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I worked in the oil fields, like a supplementary geologist.
Long story short, they drill with this stuff called OBM (oil based mud) it’s mud with oil in it. Sometimes as thick as brownie batter.
How did we clean our samples we took?
Dawn dish soap.
Or you could run your pants through the diesel sink, not sure that would help though.
TLDR: Dawn dish soap saved the ducks, why not save you too?
Edit: if dawn dish soap doesn’t work, use more dawn dish soap.
Edit edit: as someone mentioned this is for *Blue* Dawn dish soap.
Goddamit. Read the first part about your experience and qualifications and thought “Oh fuck. I’m gonna learn something new today”. Nope. Just Dawn dish soap.
Grandmas Secret Spot Remover
im sure it’s something very basic that they charge an arm and a leg for but it works like magic
bonus points for anyone who knows what it’s made with
The stuff called Oil Eater might be the more LPT you were looking for, it’s amazing for cleaning up any sort of oil based thing
it’s not harsh at all, and it lives up to its name.
I got you bro. https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/appliance-science-how-dishwasher-detergents-digest-food-stains/
If i remember correctly, Dawn is a little more expensive than others products because they use an enzyme that comes from shrimp, that "eats" lipids.
I usually rub in a little baking soda with the dawn: mild abrasive and its own stain-lifting power. This is my go-to household stain remover for all surfaces. For odor: vinegar. For blood: peroxide. For everything else dawn+baking soda!
Ymmv and often the “immediately” that is actually possible isn’t immediately enough to not have a bit of stain. But hydrogen peroxide, even when the stain is set, will denature those blood proteins right out of the fabric
Oh I just throw it in the laundry. It's not the chemical but the concentration so a cup of lye in like a 20 gallon washing machine is fine and the lye saponifies all the oil/grease etc literally turning it into soap
Blue dawn dish soap is the shit. I had a sweatshirt and didn’t realize that it had a grease stain, threw it in the wash. Some blue dawn and a soft scrub brush later, the grease stain was gone.
To add to this.
If anyone has access to talcum powder, or maybe even make up powder (but be careful with this) we'd put the talcum powder over the oil drop on our clothing. The talcum powder helps to soak up some of the oil.
This can only be done on fresh stains, though.
Absolutely this!
I briefly worked in a kitchen that made nothing but fried fried food for about a month. Dawn dish soap is easily the best answer here.
I wore the same pants and shirt every day of work, so it would collect about a week's worth of grease and oil. I'd start with handwashing it with Dawn soap. Depending on the amount of soap and grease, I'd generally have to go through the washing and rinsing process about 3x before enough of the grease was removed.
After the third washing and rinsing, I'd use clean water and a bit of fabric softener to finish things up before allowing the clothes to dry.
The fabric softener was largely to give the clothes a clean smell as well as to take advantage of the thin layer that fabric softener adds to clothing.
But yes, Blue Dawn dish soap. And opt to hand wash it. It's easy to add too much soap to a washer resulting in suds foaming out of the lid.
I hope you don't mind me hijacking your comment to post the University of Illinois' *Stain Solutions* page: [https://web.extension.illinois.edu/stain/](https://web.extension.illinois.edu/stain/)
Here's what I found always works. Even after clothes have been washed and dried. Put some "goo gone" on the spot. Let sit for 15 min. Put "Spray & Wash" on goo gone and rub in, leave for 5 min (Goo gone will leave stain if you don't spray & wash it.) Wash. Grease will be gone. I have never not had this work. If you fail to let sit, it might not work so repeat.
I wouldn't expect Spray & Wash to be at Home Depot, though if they carry laundry detergents, I guess maybe. If you are not familiar with the product, it's in a spray bottle found with the laundry detergents, softeners and the like.
I use dish soap and it almost always works. But it has to be a good quality dish soap like Dawn, rather than a dollar store version that tends to be more watery. Check that the label says 'grease-cutting' action. If the stain is set, use an old toothbrush to scrub with the dish soap before putting it in the washing machine.
Dawn Platinum has alcohol in it, works very well, also. I’ve added OxyClean powder and worked it in to a stubborn stain or two. Works even on old, washed in spots.
Especially if you put the powder on both the inside and the outside of the fabric.
If you pop on the grease-busting dish soap afterwards, and leave it for another 15 minutes before you wash you should get it out.
I would be wary about scrubbing the stain in case you ruin the surface of the fabric. If you have to scrub, try scrubbing on the back first.
Get some liquid dish soap and work it into the stain.
Then toss it back into your regular wash.
I had the same thing happen to me with a shirt and grease stains and this got rid of them.
Fels Naptha soap. I've had luck using it to remove old stains after having run an item through the washer and dryer a couple times before noticing the stain. It's cheap, it works, and one bar will last years.
i make my own solution: 1pt hydrogen peroxide, 1 pt blue soap, 1 pt laundry detergent.
mix it together and then use a toothbrush on the stain then wash it
I use dawn dish washing liquid soap. Put a small drop on a sponge, wet it, then rub it in before a wash. All the oil comes right out and it looks good as new.
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I have had success with Dawn Platinum Erasing Dish Foam. It may take a few washes but tends to work. This stuff even seems to work after it's been through the dryer. Use as little as possible and add a couple rinse cycles as it may leave some foam.
Wisk detergent specializes in grease. Though now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I saw Wisk.
I just looked, it seems they discontinued it and replaced with Persil, I don't know if Persil is the same.
Yes.
I have pulled shirts and pants out of the dryer with grease stains that I missed dozens of times and I always manage to get them out.
Dab the grease with dawn (or similar dish soap), rub it in well and let it sit.
Wash again with hot water.
Dish soap should do the trick.
Just make sure to use it liberally and rub it in well.
Stain removers are good but in my experience
don't get grease out quite as well.
Add a little baking soda to make a paste. This will help you rub it into the fibers well, but baking soda is also a mild alkali that helps dirt and grease dissolve in water.
Add a little baking soda to make a paste. This will help you rub it into the fibers well, but baking soda is also a mild alkali that helps dirt and grease dissolve in water.
Depends: if you put the clothes in the dryer then no. If you have a stain (or smell) on clothes that has not come out in the washer, the dryer will set the stain (or bake in the smell)
Moisten then treat with dish soap specifically (which is formulated for grease) you may have to repeat this process several times but if you didn’t put the jeans in the dryer then the stain should eventually come out
Dawn dish soap. Directly in spot let sit few minutes Sprinkle Oxyclean onto the soap. Make a paste with toothbrush. Let sit 15 minutes then wash. Don’t dry. Check stain. Repeat if still there
I've heard Dawn PowerWash is good for this. It's dawn platinum dish soap with a hint of alcohol. I'd pre-treat it with taht and then watch as normal and see what happens.
This is going to sound weird, but chalk. Just regular white chalk from a chalkboard. Use it to colour over the grease stain, let it sit. If it's a big stain, apply a few times. Then kind of brush off the excess with your hand and chuck it in the wash as usual. The chalk draws out the grease, and I've done this successfully before with clothes that have been through the wash as well. Just keep applying until the stain is gone.
You'll see it too. The chalk around the stain will stay white but the chalk on the stain will change colour because it's absorbing the grease.
THIS! I scrolled through a lot of 'dish soap' comments to see if anyone said chalk. It works! Baby powder does, too. Plain white chalk works well, though!
I just went through this literally last week, same situation but on a hoodie. After the wash,dry, spread of it, I caked the stain in cornstarch (it's like $1). I rubbed it in and let it sit like a day. Just brushed it off by hand and threw it in the dryer a sec and voila, all 3 stains gone.
Don't wash it yet. Get white chalk and draw on it til you stop seeing it soaking it up. Then wash like normal. If you've already washed thr pants, it's too late.
I use dish soap - usually Dawn - to remove grease, oils, makeup or anything made from grease or oils from my clothing.
In your case I would use a little on the actual spot, let it soak in, then just toss it in the wash with the rest of the load.
Here’s what I do and it works great. Use a surfactant, baking soda and a toothbrush. I use Folex cleaner, spray the stain and work baking into the cloth as a paste, scrubbing with the toothbrush a bit. Let it sit overnight at least but a day is about how long I leave it. Wash it with warm water in your machine. Almost always gets out grease on the first go. May take two times. Also works if your garment has previously been washed. Stain remover sprays work better than dish soap but a general surfactant is needed.
I would have said Dawn.
I wash my clothes in Oxiclean, more than is recommended. And I put the washer on delay for one to eight hours depending on how nasty they are. They are my work clothes and sometimes get stains including food oil and grease.
Not sure this helps, but I had a six year old splotch of dried fingernail polish on a shirt. I got it out by soaking the area around it in 90% rubbing alcohol. I soaked for probably several hours putting more alcohol on it. Then I was able to rub it out. It had been washed probably a couple of times with no results. It's fine now.
I know Clorox and probably others make to go pens you can carry with you in case this happens again. Hit it on the spot and it might keep it from staining.
Put cardboard inside the pants so the following steps won’t just move the stain to the back side of the pants. Spray the spot with WD-40 to release the oil. Then form a paste of blue Dawn dishwashing liquid and baking powder. Scrub the spot with that paste using a toothbrush. Scrub it really well, occasionally blotting the area with a clean towel. Then toss the pants in the wash. If some of the stain remains, repeat the process. This really does work. This works even on set in stains.
[Fels Naptha](https://www.amazon.com/Fels-Naptha-Laundry-Soap-Bar/dp/B01N1ZHU12) is an excellent product for all kinds of stain removal, particularly grease stains! I wet the bar/fabric and scrub it over the stain, then rinse it out.
I worked in a furniture store and sometimes we would get oily spots on the skirt of a sofa. We used a little WD-40. It worked very well. I would test it on an un noticeable area. But that's my 2 cents.
I use oxyclean max force foam laundry and Palmolive soap. I cover the area in the foam and add a very small amount of soap, then use a toothbrush to scrub the area aggressively. If it's a big stain or older stain, I'll repeat the process 2 or 3 times before washing it. Gets the grease stains out all the time.
If Dawn dish soap doesn't work (and it's pretty darn good) then get a bottle of Lestoil. It's a cleaner like PineSol, but pinesol won't work for this, only Lestoil. Just put some Lestoil on the grease spot then throw it in the wash like normal.
It may smell a bit like Lestoil when it comes out of the washer but after it dries there is no smell left. It is sold at Home Depot and sometimes Walmart, in the cleaning products section. It has gotten out set-in oily stains on clothes that I thought were ruined forever!
If they've been through the dryer, you need to reactivate the oil. I've successfully used WD40, then make a paste of the blue dawn dishsoap and baking soda.
Let it sit for a few hours. Then wash. Do not dry, chrck for oil. Apply dawn dishsoap aline if oil spot is still present.
White chalk and stain stick. I’ve saved a couple items with this magic duo. Rub a liberal amount of chalk over the stained area, the chalk helps to pull the grease out of the fibers of the clothing. Apply stain stick or spray n wash when ready to throw in the washing machine.
If you’ve already washed them and ran them through the dryer, the stain is set.
Sprinkle with baby powder and let sit overnight. The baby powder brings the oil to the surface. Wash and dry as normal. If it’s still there, repeat the process. It still works even if the oil spot has gone through the dryer.
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They sell them at our grocery store locally, and we bought some not long ago. Not long after, at a baseball game, our daughter was eating a slice of folded pizza, and the grease dripped from the crease in the pizza and onto a gigantic grease spot on her shirt. With two washes (following the directions), the grease spot was gone.
It has also gotten bacon grease out of my own shirt.
I don't know what they put in that stuff, and as a 40 year old man, I've gotten grease stains on my shirts here and there for many years, without anything (even all sorts of things from the internet) actually helping. Until these things. Carbona grease getter-outer is one of those products that I will tell everyone about, because it's just that great of a product.
Pine-sol can also be used in your laundry to remove stains. You can use it for spot-treatment also. But back when I worked in a kitchen, I'd do a wash load of greasy-spotted clothes once in a while. You can add 1/2 of cup of pinesol to your greasy clothes in the washing machine, along with your regular detergent. Don't do this with super delicate fabrics, but for some work clothes it should be totally fine. Maybe do a spot test on some pants in an innocuous area just to be sure.
Agree with the Dawn suggestions. I would also add a pre-treater like Oxy Clean spray. I had a similar stain that wouldn’t come out and used the pre-treat at my parents’ place. It came out right away after that.
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I worked in the oil fields, like a supplementary geologist. Long story short, they drill with this stuff called OBM (oil based mud) it’s mud with oil in it. Sometimes as thick as brownie batter. How did we clean our samples we took? Dawn dish soap. Or you could run your pants through the diesel sink, not sure that would help though. TLDR: Dawn dish soap saved the ducks, why not save you too? Edit: if dawn dish soap doesn’t work, use more dawn dish soap. Edit edit: as someone mentioned this is for *Blue* Dawn dish soap.
Goddamit. Read the first part about your experience and qualifications and thought “Oh fuck. I’m gonna learn something new today”. Nope. Just Dawn dish soap.
Grandmas Secret Spot Remover im sure it’s something very basic that they charge an arm and a leg for but it works like magic bonus points for anyone who knows what it’s made with
With grandma's?
I love this stuff!!!
Oh yeah that stuff....they should sell it stores
The stuff called Oil Eater might be the more LPT you were looking for, it’s amazing for cleaning up any sort of oil based thing it’s not harsh at all, and it lives up to its name.
Scrub it in real good and let it soak for a bit too.
I got you bro. https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/appliance-science-how-dishwasher-detergents-digest-food-stains/ If i remember correctly, Dawn is a little more expensive than others products because they use an enzyme that comes from shrimp, that "eats" lipids.
Always start with the username :p
I usually rub in a little baking soda with the dawn: mild abrasive and its own stain-lifting power. This is my go-to household stain remover for all surfaces. For odor: vinegar. For blood: peroxide. For everything else dawn+baking soda!
cold water will get all the blood out of you do it immediately
Ymmv and often the “immediately” that is actually possible isn’t immediately enough to not have a bit of stain. But hydrogen peroxide, even when the stain is set, will denature those blood proteins right out of the fabric
Yeah hydrogen peroxide is better. Just providing an alternative for people who don’t have any around.
I use lye bahaha
I enjoy having skin lol
Oh I just throw it in the laundry. It's not the chemical but the concentration so a cup of lye in like a 20 gallon washing machine is fine and the lye saponifies all the oil/grease etc literally turning it into soap
I rub dawn into stain with my bare fingers most of the time, so I was picturing using lye for the same sort of spot treatment 😂😂😂
Bad idea unless that scene in Fight Club *really* turned you on for some reason
Saliva from the human who’s blood it is works great too.
Blue dawn dish soap is the shit. I had a sweatshirt and didn’t realize that it had a grease stain, threw it in the wash. Some blue dawn and a soft scrub brush later, the grease stain was gone.
Really? My husband gets grease stains on all of his shirts and I'm going to try this with one of the old ones.
I was about to say Dawn also. That stuff works in even old oil stains.
I’ll try it! Thanks
Don't dry your pants until you're sure the stain is gone! The heat will seal the stain. Good luck!
To add to this. If anyone has access to talcum powder, or maybe even make up powder (but be careful with this) we'd put the talcum powder over the oil drop on our clothing. The talcum powder helps to soak up some of the oil. This can only be done on fresh stains, though.
Absolutely this! I briefly worked in a kitchen that made nothing but fried fried food for about a month. Dawn dish soap is easily the best answer here. I wore the same pants and shirt every day of work, so it would collect about a week's worth of grease and oil. I'd start with handwashing it with Dawn soap. Depending on the amount of soap and grease, I'd generally have to go through the washing and rinsing process about 3x before enough of the grease was removed. After the third washing and rinsing, I'd use clean water and a bit of fabric softener to finish things up before allowing the clothes to dry. The fabric softener was largely to give the clothes a clean smell as well as to take advantage of the thin layer that fabric softener adds to clothing. But yes, Blue Dawn dish soap. And opt to hand wash it. It's easy to add too much soap to a washer resulting in suds foaming out of the lid.
Yep.... Rub some in directly over the stain, let it sit. Wash as normal
Letting it sit for a while is key!
I hope you don't mind me hijacking your comment to post the University of Illinois' *Stain Solutions* page: [https://web.extension.illinois.edu/stain/](https://web.extension.illinois.edu/stain/)
Blue Dawn is a miracle substance
Blue dawn is my go to for almost everything from scale on plants, grease stains, and I mix it into my homemade general purpose cleaner
Yeah, I use Dawn for greasy stains all the time. I just put some on as soon as I can and leave it be. I’ll throw it into washing machine after.
Here's what I found always works. Even after clothes have been washed and dried. Put some "goo gone" on the spot. Let sit for 15 min. Put "Spray & Wash" on goo gone and rub in, leave for 5 min (Goo gone will leave stain if you don't spray & wash it.) Wash. Grease will be gone. I have never not had this work. If you fail to let sit, it might not work so repeat.
And the Wash and Spray, is that at Home Depot. I know goo gone is
I wouldn't expect Spray & Wash to be at Home Depot, though if they carry laundry detergents, I guess maybe. If you are not familiar with the product, it's in a spray bottle found with the laundry detergents, softeners and the like.
I am sure you can find spray & wash at HD. They have a whole aisle of cleaners, laundry detergent etc etc.
Might be called Resolve too. There’s also other brands like Shout
Maybe. It is for sure at Walmart, Target and most grocery stores.
You can get goo gone and spray & wash both at Walmart
And if possible, don’t dry the item till your sure the spot is gone. The dryer will set the stain making it difficult to get out.
Dish soap/washing up liquid. As you’ve already washed them get it well scrubbed in and let them soak for a good while.
I’ll try that out thank you
Best answer here. Get the dish soap worked into the fabric so it soaks all the way through. Dawn soap is great but any liquid dish soap should work
Yup- Handyman wife and mechanic mom- dishsoap always works, even if it got missed the first time around
I use dish soap and it almost always works. But it has to be a good quality dish soap like Dawn, rather than a dollar store version that tends to be more watery. Check that the label says 'grease-cutting' action. If the stain is set, use an old toothbrush to scrub with the dish soap before putting it in the washing machine.
Dawn Platinum has alcohol in it, works very well, also. I’ve added OxyClean powder and worked it in to a stubborn stain or two. Works even on old, washed in spots.
You got it thank you!
Cover the spot with baby powder or cornstarch and leave it sitting for a few days. It will draw out the oils
Especially if you put the powder on both the inside and the outside of the fabric. If you pop on the grease-busting dish soap afterwards, and leave it for another 15 minutes before you wash you should get it out. I would be wary about scrubbing the stain in case you ruin the surface of the fabric. If you have to scrub, try scrubbing on the back first.
I’ve used Dawn to remove oil spots.
Me too, and I would recommend the clear one although I don’t think the blue one would be a problem.
Get some liquid dish soap and work it into the stain. Then toss it back into your regular wash. I had the same thing happen to me with a shirt and grease stains and this got rid of them.
Fels Naptha soap. I've had luck using it to remove old stains after having run an item through the washer and dryer a couple times before noticing the stain. It's cheap, it works, and one bar will last years.
Shout Greasebuster
Blue dawn dish soap, thee kind they use to clean up oil spills
I use brake cleaning spray
Me too. Spray that grease right outta there!
Calico cut pants are all the rage... Their website is always sold out... You gotta give
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SHOUT works for me. Just let it sit for 24hrs.
i make my own solution: 1pt hydrogen peroxide, 1 pt blue soap, 1 pt laundry detergent. mix it together and then use a toothbrush on the stain then wash it
Linseed oil will remove them.
I’ve had really good luck with oxy clean extra strength. Leave it on for several days and wash
Grease police can get out most stains like that + other stuff as well. I'd recommend it if you get stains often
That new power spray dawn detergent works awesome. Spray it on and let it sit for a while. Might scrub right out.
Dawn dish soap works every time
Relative was a hot tar roofer. He used Lestoil and it worked great.
Lestoil is answer.
Brake cleaner. Comes in a spray can. Blasts grease out. It’s a solvent that won’t harm clothing
Shout Advanced Grease Foaming Spray
I use dawn dish washing liquid soap. Put a small drop on a sponge, wet it, then rub it in before a wash. All the oil comes right out and it looks good as new.
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Put lighter fluid on the spot and wash on hot. Works everytime.
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Wash them like the romans. They were experts at getting grease stains out.
I work on their equipment.. I wash my work clothes seperate and in hot
I have had success with Dawn Platinum Erasing Dish Foam. It may take a few washes but tends to work. This stuff even seems to work after it's been through the dryer. Use as little as possible and add a couple rinse cycles as it may leave some foam.
OxyClean Max Force gel stick. This gets literally every stain, including grease, out of clothes for me.
Wisk detergent specializes in grease. Though now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I saw Wisk. I just looked, it seems they discontinued it and replaced with Persil, I don't know if Persil is the same.
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In my experience the grease can still be removed by washing it again after rubbing the area with dish soap.
So try and rub dish soap again? Even after I wash and dried?
Yes. I have pulled shirts and pants out of the dryer with grease stains that I missed dozens of times and I always manage to get them out. Dab the grease with dawn (or similar dish soap), rub it in well and let it sit. Wash again with hot water.
Okay I’ll try that thank you! If not you think some kind of stain remover will work?
Dish soap should do the trick. Just make sure to use it liberally and rub it in well. Stain removers are good but in my experience don't get grease out quite as well.
Wow I’m surprised. So dish soap and rub in. Should I wash the pants alone in hot after?
No need to wash them alone.
Got it thank you!
Dish soap is made to remove oil from dishes. Does the same on cloth and feathers
Add a little baking soda to make a paste. This will help you rub it into the fibers well, but baking soda is also a mild alkali that helps dirt and grease dissolve in water.
Add a little baking soda to make a paste. This will help you rub it into the fibers well, but baking soda is also a mild alkali that helps dirt and grease dissolve in water.
"Fels naptha" is what I used as an oil painter. It's a specialty oil soap.
You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris?
Depends: if you put the clothes in the dryer then no. If you have a stain (or smell) on clothes that has not come out in the washer, the dryer will set the stain (or bake in the smell) Moisten then treat with dish soap specifically (which is formulated for grease) you may have to repeat this process several times but if you didn’t put the jeans in the dryer then the stain should eventually come out
Dawn dish soap. Directly in spot let sit few minutes Sprinkle Oxyclean onto the soap. Make a paste with toothbrush. Let sit 15 minutes then wash. Don’t dry. Check stain. Repeat if still there
Blue dawn and if that doesn’t work, try a fels naptha bar. Wet stain and rub bar directly into the fabric.
I've heard Dawn PowerWash is good for this. It's dawn platinum dish soap with a hint of alcohol. I'd pre-treat it with taht and then watch as normal and see what happens.
This is going to sound weird, but chalk. Just regular white chalk from a chalkboard. Use it to colour over the grease stain, let it sit. If it's a big stain, apply a few times. Then kind of brush off the excess with your hand and chuck it in the wash as usual. The chalk draws out the grease, and I've done this successfully before with clothes that have been through the wash as well. Just keep applying until the stain is gone. You'll see it too. The chalk around the stain will stay white but the chalk on the stain will change colour because it's absorbing the grease.
THIS! I scrolled through a lot of 'dish soap' comments to see if anyone said chalk. It works! Baby powder does, too. Plain white chalk works well, though!
I just went through this literally last week, same situation but on a hoodie. After the wash,dry, spread of it, I caked the stain in cornstarch (it's like $1). I rubbed it in and let it sit like a day. Just brushed it off by hand and threw it in the dryer a sec and voila, all 3 stains gone.
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Don't wash it yet. Get white chalk and draw on it til you stop seeing it soaking it up. Then wash like normal. If you've already washed thr pants, it's too late.
I use dish soap - usually Dawn - to remove grease, oils, makeup or anything made from grease or oils from my clothing. In your case I would use a little on the actual spot, let it soak in, then just toss it in the wash with the rest of the load.
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Here’s what I do and it works great. Use a surfactant, baking soda and a toothbrush. I use Folex cleaner, spray the stain and work baking into the cloth as a paste, scrubbing with the toothbrush a bit. Let it sit overnight at least but a day is about how long I leave it. Wash it with warm water in your machine. Almost always gets out grease on the first go. May take two times. Also works if your garment has previously been washed. Stain remover sprays work better than dish soap but a general surfactant is needed.
I agree with the original, blue, dawn dish soap
Carbona Stain Devils #5 for Fat and Cooking Oils.
I would have said Dawn. I wash my clothes in Oxiclean, more than is recommended. And I put the washer on delay for one to eight hours depending on how nasty they are. They are my work clothes and sometimes get stains including food oil and grease. Not sure this helps, but I had a six year old splotch of dried fingernail polish on a shirt. I got it out by soaking the area around it in 90% rubbing alcohol. I soaked for probably several hours putting more alcohol on it. Then I was able to rub it out. It had been washed probably a couple of times with no results. It's fine now. I know Clorox and probably others make to go pens you can carry with you in case this happens again. Hit it on the spot and it might keep it from staining.
Put cardboard inside the pants so the following steps won’t just move the stain to the back side of the pants. Spray the spot with WD-40 to release the oil. Then form a paste of blue Dawn dishwashing liquid and baking powder. Scrub the spot with that paste using a toothbrush. Scrub it really well, occasionally blotting the area with a clean towel. Then toss the pants in the wash. If some of the stain remains, repeat the process. This really does work. This works even on set in stains.
I mixed baking soda with vinegar, it makes a lil fuzzy paste. Apply on directly, let it soak for 15 minutes then throw it in the wash. Usually works.
[Fels Naptha](https://www.amazon.com/Fels-Naptha-Laundry-Soap-Bar/dp/B01N1ZHU12) is an excellent product for all kinds of stain removal, particularly grease stains! I wet the bar/fabric and scrub it over the stain, then rinse it out.
Soak the spot in hot water with dish soap for 15 minutes, then cover the spot in salt and scrub with a toothbrush. Throw in washer after.
Dawn dish soap. Just apply a little, let it sit and into the washer regular.
I use goof off. I dont think its meant for washing but it works REALLY well...
Dawn. Rub it in the stain and let sit in your dirty clothes a day, then wash.
OxyClean Maxforce 5-in-1 gel stain stick. My laundry room is never without it.
Spray and wash, do not put in dryer. May take 2 applications
Dawn dish soap is amazing. I've gotten grease stains out that have been washed and dried multiple times.
I worked in a furniture store and sometimes we would get oily spots on the skirt of a sofa. We used a little WD-40. It worked very well. I would test it on an un noticeable area. But that's my 2 cents.
Cover the rest of the pants in grease to hide the original spot
I use oxyclean max force foam laundry and Palmolive soap. I cover the area in the foam and add a very small amount of soap, then use a toothbrush to scrub the area aggressively. If it's a big stain or older stain, I'll repeat the process 2 or 3 times before washing it. Gets the grease stains out all the time.
As long as you didn't dry them you can probably save them. Scrub with blue dawn dish soap, rewash and don't put them in the dryer.
Dawn dish soap is Plan A Plan B is Fels Naptha laundry bar
If Dawn dish soap doesn't work (and it's pretty darn good) then get a bottle of Lestoil. It's a cleaner like PineSol, but pinesol won't work for this, only Lestoil. Just put some Lestoil on the grease spot then throw it in the wash like normal. It may smell a bit like Lestoil when it comes out of the washer but after it dries there is no smell left. It is sold at Home Depot and sometimes Walmart, in the cleaning products section. It has gotten out set-in oily stains on clothes that I thought were ruined forever!
Rub some dish soap into the grease spot and leave to soak for a few minutes then wash as normal.
put some dawn dish soap on it . rub it in wash as normal. Dawn gets oil out of anything
Baking soda completely removes it, if you apply it fast enough. It's amazing.
Lestoil is amazing and gets so much out of your laundry that is usually a permanent stain. It’s the only reason I’m allowed nice things again.
ox gall soap. But after washing machine you're pretty much fucked. Next time use ox gall soap, scrub by hand, until gone, then washing machine.
If they've been through the dryer, you need to reactivate the oil. I've successfully used WD40, then make a paste of the blue dawn dishsoap and baking soda. Let it sit for a few hours. Then wash. Do not dry, chrck for oil. Apply dawn dishsoap aline if oil spot is still present.
I've had success with pouring boiling water over the oil spot
White chalk and stain stick. I’ve saved a couple items with this magic duo. Rub a liberal amount of chalk over the stained area, the chalk helps to pull the grease out of the fibers of the clothing. Apply stain stick or spray n wash when ready to throw in the washing machine. If you’ve already washed them and ran them through the dryer, the stain is set.
A scissor always works for me.
Sprinkle with baby powder and let sit overnight. The baby powder brings the oil to the surface. Wash and dry as normal. If it’s still there, repeat the process. It still works even if the oil spot has gone through the dryer.
Simple baby powder and just let it sit for a week and then wash
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Pine-sol can also be used in your laundry to remove stains. You can use it for spot-treatment also. But back when I worked in a kitchen, I'd do a wash load of greasy-spotted clothes once in a while. You can add 1/2 of cup of pinesol to your greasy clothes in the washing machine, along with your regular detergent. Don't do this with super delicate fabrics, but for some work clothes it should be totally fine. Maybe do a spot test on some pants in an innocuous area just to be sure.
Spray of Shout before washing
Agree with the Dawn suggestions. I would also add a pre-treater like Oxy Clean spray. I had a similar stain that wouldn’t come out and used the pre-treat at my parents’ place. It came out right away after that.
Are those your “dress” sweatpants or just your everyday knock around sweat pants??JFC
Idk how no one has said oxiclean spray. Leave it in for an hour, wash your clothes like normal. Always works for me
If dish soap doesn’t work there is a thing called goo gone that will work but it’s nasty stuff.
Enzyme based clothes detergents work well on anything organic based.
Sometimes if you can get to it fast enough applying baby powder can soak up some of the oil. Not helpful now I realize, but maybe for next time!
Three parts hydrogen peroxide and a few drops of liquid soap.