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Cooking oil. Tips to remove Cooking oil stains

Cooking oil stains will come from many types of ingredients.  Use these fast-cleaning tips for cooking oil stains on your fabrics or clothes for a great clean that will make your day!

Pre treat all cooking oil stains with a stain stick or spray.  Leave this sit on the fabric for about ten minutes. 

Apply clear liquid laundry detergent to the cooking oil stained area.  Rub the liquid in well with your fingertips or a soft scrub brush to work in the detergent while working out the cooking oil.

Rinse the fabric will, and re inspect for the stain.  Hang dry if needed for checking the stain.

If the stain persists, you can reapply the pre treatment stain spray and then the laundry detergent.

If the fabric tag states that you can use bleach on this fabric, soak the fabric in a bucket of three gallons of water with two cups of bleach, liquid or powder.  Let the fabric soak for about ten minutes.

Rinse the fabric well, launder as usual and re-inspect for the cooking oil stain.  Do not dry in the dryer until you have checked for the stain.

If you have a very stubborn cooking oil stain, put the fabric stain side down and apply dry cleaning fluid to the back of the cooking oil stained area.

Let the fabric dry and the launder as usual.

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Powder to the Rescue Comments By: Rosemary on 2005-04-28 Use powder ( any brand) to remove grease stains. Just sprinkle some powder on the stain leave it on and when you are ready to wash - just wash it and out comes the stain. BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE IT IS WASHED OR THE STAIN WILL NOT COME OUT.   DAWN DETERGENT Comments By: Kathy on 2008-01-01 I was always told to use dawn detergent when you get oil on your clothing. I tryed it and it worked on some material but not all. You have to put dawn detergent on it right when you get the oil stain then was with your laundry detergent.