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Pretreating Stubborn Stains
According to the severity of soils/stains on your garments, you may want to pretreat, presoak or prewash.
- Pretreat: Used for a few small spots. Apply undiluted laundry detergent such as Liquid Tide with Bleach Alternative; undiluted liquid dishwashing detergent, such as Dawn*; or rub Ivory bar soap, or suds from an Ivory bar, directly on the stained area. Launder immediately.
- Presoak: Used for deep-set soils, old stains, extensive staining or protein stains like blood, grass or body soils. Soak stained item(s) in a plastic bucket or laundry tub with the warmest water safe for the fabric and a good heavy-duty laundry detergent like Tide for a maximum of 30 minutes.
Bleach-sensitive stains like fruit juice or drink mixes should be rinsed in cold water, then washed with a non-chlorine bleach product such as Tide with Bleach. If stains remain, colorsafe items may be laundered with a colorfast bleach like Biz®* and bleachable items may be laundered with chlorine bleach.
- Prewash: Used for heavily soiled garments like work clothes, gardening clothes or play clothes. (Cloth diapers should be rinsed in cold water, and placed in a soak solution of a non-chlorine bleach and water, until they can be laundered). Run through prewash cycle with recommended amount of detergent. When wash cycle is complete, drain the prewash solution and launder in the hottest water recommended by the manufacturer.
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