Need help removing yellow baby stains

[A home for their hearts]

I just went through my baby clothes and was upset to find a lot had yellowed. I'm having trouble getting the stains to come out of some really cute clothes! UGH. Anyone know of any good tricks that work?

[Ravin]

I used to get the yellow out of my Navy whites by washing them with Simple Green all-purpose cleaner.

[ProudGrandma]

I have soaked these in oxi-clean before with success. What I did was put HOT water in my washing machine with oxiclean (I don't remember how much, but I know I didn't skimp on it...)...let them soak overnight or all day long and then drained then I added soap to the machine and finished washing. Before drying, check to see if the stains were removed...I have had to do this for a second day before...but never any more than that.

 

Good Luck!

[A home for their hearts]

I forgot about oxiclean! I used to use it to get out the breastfed baby poop stains lol and it worked wonderfully! I'll have to give it a try.

 

I've never heard of simple green all-purpose cleaner. Does it work well?

[Lara in Colo]

Oxiclean, love it!! Use hot water of course. It also gets rust out and I've had great success with getting blood out of my sheets.

 

Lara

[FloridaLisa]

Tightwad Gazette ran this which is best solution I've ever used to get yellow stains out of baby clothes. I used to use it regularly, when I had lots of littles. I googled for the recipe to make sure I remembered correctly. I just used the hottest water in my wash machine, added the chlorox and dishwasher detergent, put the garments in and let them sit for a while and then washed. I double-rinsed for baby clothes.

 

HTH,

Lisa

[Becca211]

One more thing I heard about once was making a paste out of meat tenderizer and putting in on the stain to sit for a while. The tenderizer is an enzyme to break down proteins and that is what is in the stain. If the oxyclean doesn't work, it is worth a shot!

[StephanieZ]

I used to just throw everything in a hot water - chlorine bleach load once a couple of regular tries had failed to remove the stains. No matter the color/print/etc, I'd say that 80% came through the bleach with NO damage and NO stains --- as good as new, 10% faded but were useable, 10% were so faded that I didn't want to use them and threw them out.

 

Hth

[*Jessica*]

Tightwad Gazette ran this which is best solution I've ever used to get yellow stains out of baby clothes. I used to use it regularly, when I had lots of littles. I googled for the recipe to make sure I remembered correctly. I just used the hottest water in my wash machine, added the chlorox and dishwasher detergent, put the garments in and let them sit for a while and then washed. I double-rinsed for baby clothes.

 

HTH,

Lisa

This!!!! It's the best stain treatment I've found.

[samba]

Tightwad Gazette ran this which is best solution I've ever used to get yellow stains out of baby clothes. I used to use it regularly, when I had lots of littles. I googled for the recipe to make sure I remembered correctly. I just used the hottest water in my wash machine, added the chlorox and dishwasher detergent, put the garments in and let them sit for a while and then washed. I double-rinsed for baby clothes.

 

HTH,

Lisa

 

This is the stain treatment I use for tough stains. It has worked for almost everything!