Since my older daugther started school and my younger daugther was born, I had to rethink my relationship with stains and stain removers. Where there used to be merely a container of Tide and maybe a bottle of Oxi-Clean, there is now a row of products that allow me to keep the clothes of a Waldorf kindergartener, a three-year-old, and a baby reasonably stain-free. I am fully considering adding “excellent baby-poop-stain-removal skills” to my next resume.
As you can tell, Oxi-Clean is my go-to product, and both the spray liquid and the oxygen powder have their place. If you thought I was a natural-cleaner type of gal because of a photo of a chicken in my header, you were misled. In my world, all is fair in love and stain removal.
Now, in our journey through Waldorf education, I came up against a previously unfamiliar adversary in the form of pine sap stains on clothing which somehow oozed from the pine cones onto my daughter’s outerwear as she was gathering nature’s treasures for safekeeping. A quick consultation with the oracle that is Google suggested rubbing alcohol or alcohol-based gel hand sanitizer (which we do not otherwise use, being the old-fashioned soap-and-water types).
So here is the drill: If dealing with outerwear, put a small amount of either rubbing alcohol or alcohol-based hand sanitizer onto a cotton ball, rub the stain with the ball for a bit, and put the item through the wash as usual. Otherwise dab the sanitizer directly onto the clothing and rub before putting through a washer.
This is why I now keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer in my laundry cabinet above.
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Thanks for posting – I’ve never been able to solve that one!