Last week we shared with you care instructions for our personalized tshirts for kids. You can read all about how to care for our tees here. This week we wanted to share some stain removal tips for all of our tees. We know how messy kids can be, especially when they start to feed themselves.
To create our stains we used a mixed berry juice, chocolate sauce and tomato sauce
We stained our tees, used our stain removers and washed them in regular detergent through a regular cycle.
For our stain removers, we wanted to try a mix of “old-school”, “mom approved” stain removers along with common stain removers you probably already have in your laundry room.
1. Shout
2. De-Pee Stain Remover
3. Grandma’s Secret Spot Remover
4. Fels-Naptha Soap
5. Mixture of hydrogen peroxide, dish soap and baking soda
6. Boiling hot water (not shown above)
Let’s get started …
Shout removed the berry stain completely, but left a little bit of the tomato and chocolate sauce.
De-Pee had about the same result as Shout — the berry juice was removed and the chocolate and tomato sauce stains were still hanging on.
Next we have Grandma’s Secret Spot Remover and Fels-Naptha bar soap. Grandma’s did a great job! You can see below that all three stains were removed.
Fels-Naptha also did a great job! As you can see, all three stains are gone.
And then we have our hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dish soap combo — which we scrubbed into each stain with a toothbrush. This was a great little tip! It removed all three stains really well.
And then we wanted to try a bleach pen. We do not recommend using bleach on our tees, however we thought it would be good to show you what happened. We put the bleach directly over the blue and green letters, as well as the stains — and we were surprised when the bleach did not discolor the print, and we were also surprised that there was still plenty of chocolate sauce left over.
We then put bleach pen over the red and yellow part of the print below, and you can see that it totally faded out the print. So, we still do not suggest using a bleach pen on our tees as the print may fade.
And finally, we put boiling water over a berry juice stain. This one is an oldie but a goodie — and it works only for berry stains like juice or red wine.
So to wrap things up, to protect your personalized baby onesies, big brother tshirts, and big sister tees, so they stay in tip top shape and stay beautiful baby keepsakes, we suggest the following:
GOOD: Fels-Naptha bar sopa, hydrogen peroxide + baking soda + dish soap mixture, boiling water over berry stains, and Grandma’s Secret Spot Remover
NOT SO GOOD: Shout, De-Pee, and Bleach pen
