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Cleaning Baby Stains on Clothes Learn how to remove baby stains on clothes. From "Home Made Easy" episode DHME-155

Guest Linda Cobb, the Queen of Clean®, joins host Stephanie Lydecker and demonstrates how to remove multiple types of baby stains from baby clothing. She shows easy ways to tackle baby formula, drool, juice and mystery stains.

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	Guest Linda Cobb shares tips to help you get rid of stubborn baby stains.
	Figure A

Cleaning Baby Stains on Clothes

Materials:

unseasoned meat tenderizer
Zout Laundry Stain Remover
Fels Naptha Laundry Bar Soap
Borax
3% hydrogen peroxide
ammonia
measuring cup
measuring spoons
containers
water
cotton balls

• Removing Baby Formula. This works on colored clothing only. Combine cool water and enough unseasoned meat tenderizer to make a paste. Apply to the stain and keep damp for an hour. After an hour is up, flush with water, apply laundry stain remover and launder as usual. Do not put the garment in the dryer until you are sure that the stain is gone. For white clothes, apply lemon juice and lay garment in the sun until the stain is gone.

• Removing Drool Stains. First, wet the spot with warm water and work in a lather of Fels Naptha Laundry Bar Soap. Add a little Borax to it and rub gently between your thumbs (figure A), and then launder as usual.

• Removing Juice Stains. Combine equal parts of white vinegar, liquid dish soap and water into a closable container. Shake, shake, shake. Work the solution onto the stained spot with a cloth. Let this sit for a few minutes and then launder as usually.

• Removing Mystery Stains. For those mystery stains, combine one half cup of three percent peroxide and one teaspoon of ammonia. Apply this mixture with a cloth to the stain, let sit for 15 minutes to one hour. Flush out the garment, treat with a laundry pre-spotter and launder as usually. This works on white or colorfast clothes.

• Checking for Colorfastness. To test for colorfastness, dip a cotton ball into warm water. Blot this onto an inside seam. If the color comes off on the cotton, it is not colorfast and the color will be removed or run.

GUESTS :

Linda Cobb
The Queen of Clean®
Website: www.queenofclean.com