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149 stains. One first move each.
Pick the closest match. Every page starts with the one thing to do right now.
Not sure what it is? Start with the family.
The family decides the first move. Match your stain to the closest one.
- Proteincold water first
- Tannindetergent, then oxygen
- Oil and greasedegrease, then hot wash
- Dyealcohol or a long oxygen soak
- Wax and gumfreeze, scrape, melt
- Combinationtwo passes, check between
- Particulatedry, brush, then wash
- Rust and mineralacid, never chlorine
- Mold, mildew and damageremove growth, accept damage
Babies
Toddlers and young kids
- Acrylic paint
- Berries
- Cheese sauce and orange snack dust
- Chocolate
- Crayon
- Crayon through the dryer
- Frosting and food colouring
- Fruit punch and sports drinks
- Glitter glue
- Grape juice
- Grass on the knees
- Ice cream
- Juice
- Juice box straw squirt
- Ketchup
- Kids' sunscreen
- Mud
- Nosebleed on a pillowcase
- Peanut butter
- Pencil and graphite
- Permanent marker
- Play-dough
- Popsicle
- School glue
- Sidewalk chalk
- Slime
- Snot and boogers
- Syrup and honey
- Washable marker
- Washable paint
Teenagers
- Acne cream spots (benzoyl peroxide)
- Antiperspirant buildup
- Baseball pants mud and grass
- Bike chain grease
- Blood from scrapes
- Body spray and perfume
- Cola and soda
- Deodorant white marks
- Energy drinks
- Eyeliner and eyeshadow
- Fast food grease
- Football field paint and turf
- Foundation
- Hair dye
- Hair gel and styling products
- Hot chips and chili powder
- Lipstick
- Mascara
- Period stains
- Period stains on sheets
- Pizza grease
- Slushie
- Sweaty gym clothes odour
Adults
- Avocado and guacamole
- Ballpoint ink
- Barbecue sauce
- Beer
- Butter
- Candle wax
- Chewing gum
- Coffee
- Coffee with milk
- Cooking oil
- Curry and turmeric
- Egg
- Gel and fountain pen ink
- Grass from mowing
- Gravy
- Hard cider and cocktails
- Jam and jelly
- Latex house paint
- Lipstick on a collar
- Makeup on a pillowcase
- Motor oil and grease
- Mustard
- Nail polish
- Oil paint and wood stain
- Pen through the wash
- Red wine
- Ring around the collar
- Rust
- Salad dressing
- Self-tanner
- Shaving nick blood
- Soy sauce
- Sweat on a ball cap
- Tea
- Tomato sauce
- White wine
- Yellow armpit stains
Farm and outdoor
- Animal blood
- Antifreeze and coolant
- Axle and bearing grease
- Battery acid
- Bird droppings
- Bug splatter
- Bug spray with DEET
- Campfire smoke and soot
- Chainsaw bar oil
- Diesel
- Gasoline
- Grain dust
- Hydraulic oil
- Iodine and teat dip
- Livestock marking crayon
- Manure
- Pesticide and herbicide residue
- Pollen
- Red clay and iron-rich mud
- Road tar
- Silage and hay
- Tree sap and pine pitch
Pets and household
- Bleach spots
- Bleed from new jeans
- Candle soot on curtains
- Candle wax on a rug
- Coffee on carpet
- Dye transfer (pink load)
- Fabric softener spots
- Human vomit
- Iron scorch
- Mildew on towels
- Muddy paw prints
- Musty towels
- Pet poop accidents
- Pet urine on carpet
- Pet urine on fabric
- Pet vomit and hairballs
- Red wine on a couch
- Shoe polish
- Sunscreen on towels
- Urine on a mattress
- Washer mildew flecks
- Water rings on silk
- Well-water iron (orange laundry)
- Yellowing in drawers