all right we've all been there you go
out to lunch you get a stain on your
clothes spaghetti sauce maybe salad
dressing it can be difficult to wash out
and with our students back in school
moms and dads we know they come home
with grass stains dirt stains ink
maybe marker on their clothes joining me
now to show you how to remove those
stains at home is Mike Harris of
Oceanside clears good morning thanks
good morning thank you for having me
this has happened to all of us I was
sharing the story that my husband always
seems to get salad dressing whenever I
see him at lunch on his clothes he never
knows and first let me ask this question
is it okay to just take water and rub it
or should you pat it or should you just
leave it alone if it's salad dressing if
it depends on the material and if it's
silk like most ties are you just want to
spot it up with the white terry cloth
towel just stamp it spot it up and then
you know silk you need to take to your
professional always but you shouldn't
really rub that should not rub it I see
with the napkin okay very good point
okay so you should tap it all right so
you let's start if we can with grass
stains and anything that as you said
comes from from the earth from you use
to clean so the first thing to do is
spray some laundry detergent on it and
what you're doing there is you're
lubricating the spot and opening up the
spot on there and then for the ground
ones that you and you just want to tap
it because that just gets it into the
trees just it breaks up the spot as you
can see it moving oh yeah Wow now you
didn't add any water here and you open
water half and half
okay soap and water have a half up and
there's a nice thing about it these are
all home products you probably have them
under your sink and then what you do
after that with the below ground once
you do you want to spray some vinegar on
it vinegar on cotton okay you can you
can use all this on color okay and as
you can see it's starting to go away
obviously you've hardly rubbed it or
screw yeah yeah right and then what you
want to do afterwards is and you can see
that's starting to come obviously you
have to work once it starts moving
just you definitely want to go buy a
brush okay and then once you get it
moving then you'll wash it and it'll
come out afterwards okay so take this
and then throw it and then wash it these
are all place by now did the spot
removers those have these ingredients in
them is that the theory or should you do
this instead of using those well the
spot removers you can make at home like
the laundry detergent I pre spotted with
is 50/50 laundry detergent and water
okay and then the vinegar is half and a
half vinegar and water okay so don't
like just straight vinegar on it you
want to dilute it with the other half
okay and that's your regular regular
vinegar regular vinegar and you want a
pre spot it let it activate maybe go and
watch the morning show and then let it
come back five minutes later the next
day and throw it in the laundry wash it
okay the next thing is a protein sting
which is anything inside the body blood
perspiration urine and you want to use a
an ammonia on it so once again you want
to pre spot the spot with soap soap and
dilute it with water but dilute it with
water
tap it and then you want to go with an
ammonia base now this is really good
this is four equal parts of ammonia
water your laundry detergent and our
favorite dawn okay and then mix it up
and then you want to just start tapping
it and as you can see the blood is
moving and like I said once it starts
moving you can wash that and it's gonna
come all the way out all right you can
really smell that and this is got
ammonia in there Wow okay and then and
then you throw this in the laundry right
lilandra everything used to go in the
laundry wheel afterwards I gotta get
this salad dressing this is one of my
favorite home pre spotting you just
throw it on there that's dawn dawn dawn
yep well yes I used yes definitely used
on okay dawn why do you use dawn in the
dishwashers for oils and greases so what
you want to do is once again tap it
again and then wash it and that will
come out another nice thing about all
these spots at the end for example when
you pull clothes out of the dryer and
you see stains that weren't there before
they're obviously oils or greases and
you can use the dawn on those but
because it's all great remember even
afterwards I feel like it's been in the
dryer at some house said it now
sometimes it does said it but it might
be an oil or grease and you can use dawn
on that and you can use peroxide procs
is really good for blood and yellow
stains and it's all these are
biodegradable products too and these
won't then cause any change in color if
it's not white you want to go to a
unexposed area and test it okay and
that's when you're using the peroxide
any ammonia can pull color and procs I
can but go to an unexposed area and just
wet it and get a white cloth and rub it
and see if it the color comes off that's
all you gotta do really quickly you you
have is this a little more complicated a
little more but it's the same goof off
this is good stuff you can get at Home
Depot or any of the it's called goof off
goof off yeah let me get it there we go
look at that look at that okay let me
just show our viewers here so I'll tap
that this was just one light okay
now this might look like it makes it
worse but it doesn't well that's why I
had it on the towel and then you yeah
and then you'll just tap it again and a
lot of times a towel take most of it and
then wash it and that'll come out yes
Thank You Jennifer
all of this whatever my kids come home
with James or my husband he's such a
messy eater sometimes alright if you
missed any of these easy stain fighting
solutions we have posted we're gonna
post this entire interview on our
website news for Jax comm later this
morning and if you're really having
trouble of course you could visit
Oceanside cleaners at two locations
there's one on the south side on
Southside Boulevard and then also one
down in Ponte Vedra Beach on Solana Road