Neat persil left on clothes

[simon1987]

girlfriend has screwed me over and poured neat persil on my clothes.

Probably been left for a week so well soaked in.

Anyone have any ideas how to get it out? I have been using neat water and an old tooth brush and it has removed most of the staining but there is still a baby blue stain left behind.

[boobles]

Stick them in the washing machine & wash them.

[Landlord]

[PH answer] Just buy a new wardrobe of clothes[/PH answer]

So - what did you do to warrant the staining?

[SWoll]

boobles said:

Stick them in the washing machine & wash them.

Exactly...

Worst mumsnet thread ever.

I'm genuinely close to a here.

simon1987 said:

I have been using neat water

There's your problem, best to dilute it.

Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 20th March 13:36

[Monty Zoomer]

simon1987 said:

I have been using neat water and an old tooth brush

Why?
Why not just put it in the wash??

[RealSquirrels]

nonono, don't close the thread yet, my hair is full of shampoo and i don't know how to get it out.

[Justayellowbadge]

Simon, have you tried Persil?

[Landlord]

SWoll said:

There's your problem, best to dilute it.

Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 20th March 13:36

[Monty Zoomer]

RealSquirrels said:

nonono, don't close the thread yet, my hair is full of shampoo and i don't know how to get it out.

Use neat toothpaste and a duster

[boobles]

OP are you sure it's Persil stains & not spunk stains?

[SWoll]

My favourite thread in ages.

[SWoll]

Justayellowbadge said:

Simon, have you tried Persil?

[Hugo a Gogo]

coincidence, my missus has just poured loads of neat washing up liquid on some of my cups that were sitting in the sink

wtf am I meant to do now?

[Rotaree]

[SWoll]

Hugo a Gogo said:

coincidence, my missus has just poured loads of neat washing up liquid on some of my cups that were sitting in the sink

wtf am I meant to do now?

Leave them for a week and then clean them with an old toothbrush?

Only thing I can think of...

[Ikemi]

Hugo a Gogo said:

coincidence, my missus has just poured loads of neat washing up liquid on some of my cups that were sitting in the sink

wtf am I meant to do now?

Put 'em in the washing machine with some Persil - That'll clean them up real nice!

[slomax]

SWoll said:

simon1987 said:

I have been using neat water

There's your problem, best to dilute it.

^^ this- sort of

Persil Works in much the same way as Vanish Oxi- in that it creates foam/micro bubbles within the fabric when wet, lifting the dirt. This is caused by the chemical reaction in the (now wet) powder/paste formula with the oxygen naturally found in water, the tumbling of the washing machine increases the air volume in the water, im the same way that you have an air pump in a fish tank.

If you add oxygenated water to the mix, it will lather up, but the colour within the powder will remain. Ideally you will either need to take it to a dry cleaners (where they use tetrachloroethylene, instead of water as the cleaning liquid) or use water that you have boiled in the kettle twice, leaving to stand still. Boiling the water reduces the amount of oxygen and particulates in it, giving it the different taste when you drink cooled boiled water. This will dilute the dye used within the powder, but will not cause the active cleaning ingredient to react.

If you have any more Q's about it post em up and i'll try my best to answer them for you.

Hope this helps

[Hugo a Gogo]

oh balls, my only toothbrush seems to have some sort of toothpaste on the bristles

[SWoll]

slomax said:

^^ this- sort of

Persil Works in much the same way as Vanish Oxi- in that it creates foam/micro bubbles within the fabric when wet, lifting the dirt. This is caused by the chemical reaction in the (now wet) powder/paste formula with the oxygen naturally found in water, the tumbling of the washing machine increases the air volume in the water, im the same way that you have an air pump in a fish tank.

If you add oxygenated water to the mix, it will lather up, but the colour within the powder will remain. Ideally you will either need to take it to a dry cleaners (where they use tetrachloroethylene, instead of water as the cleaning liquid) or use water that you have boiled in the kettle twice, leaving to stand still. Boiling the water reduces the amount of oxygen and particulates in it, giving it the different taste when you drink cooled boiled water. This will dilute the dye used within the powder, but will not cause the active cleaning ingredient to react.

If you have any more Q's about it post em up and i'll try my best to answer them for you.

Hope this helps

There's always one isn't there?

[simon1987]

slomax said:

^^ this- sort of

Persil Works in much the same way as Vanish Oxi- in that it creates foam/micro bubbles within the fabric when wet, lifting the dirt. This is caused by the chemical reaction in the (now wet) powder/paste formula with the oxygen naturally found in water, the tumbling of the washing machine increases the air volume in the water, im the same way that you have an air pump in a fish tank.

If you add oxygenated water to the mix, it will lather up, but the colour within the powder will remain. Ideally you will either need to take it to a dry cleaners (where they use tetrachloroethylene, instead of water as the cleaning liquid) or use water that you have boiled in the kettle twice, leaving to stand still. Boiling the water reduces the amount of oxygen and particulates in it, giving it the different taste when you drink cooled boiled water. This will dilute the dye used within the powder, but will not cause the active cleaning ingredient to react.

If you have any more Q's about it post em up and i'll try my best to answer them for you.

Hope this helps

So I should boil the kettle twice and try cleaning with that water? when its cooled down?