How to Get Cooking Grease out of a Cotton Shirt

Instead of tossing out your grease-stained cotton shirt or paying expensive laundering fees at the dry cleaner, learn to remove grease stains at home. The simple supplies are available at discount stores and can be used again for future stains. Save your favorite shirt in a few easy steps. These techniques can be applied to other clothing stains as well.

Butter knife or spoon
Liquid laundry detergent
Oven cleaner
Dawn dish detergent
Shampoo
Pine Sol
Lestoil
Baby powder

Instructions

- 1
  Scrape as much grease as you can off the shirt with a spoon or butter knife. Rub liquid laundry detergent into the stain and let it penetrate for about five minutes. Wash the shirt in the washing machine on the hottest water setting. Repeat if necessary to completely remove the stain.
- 2
  Spray oven cleaner on the grease stain and allow it to soak in for five minutes. Wash the shirt in hot water in your washing machine. Dry as usual.
- 3
  Scrub the grease-stained shirt with Dawn liquid dish detergent, shampoo or Pine Sol cleaner by hand and let it soak for three to five minutes. Wash the shirt in hot water to remove the stain.
- 4
  Treat older grease stains that have already been washed with Lestoil. Apply it to the stain and wash the shirt in hot water. Wash the shirt a second time to remove the strong Lestoil odor.
- 5
  Sprinkle enough baby powder over the grease stain to completely cover the stain. Let the powder sit for at least 24 hours. Wash the shirt in hot water in your washing machine. Repeat if necessary.

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