How to remove deodorant?

Question

I know your not supposed to put stained clothes in dryer or heat will set the stain in and make next to impossible to remove, but my problem is the stain wasnt there before i washed it. this seems to happen to all my white shirts. I wash them and after a couple washes i get this yellowish stain on my armpits. I can only assume maybe the detergent and deoderant residu made it stain darker so that i didnt notice it before. I dont know if this is true but its my only theory. Does anyone know of a way to remove these yellowish deoderant stains off my white shrts? i have bleached them but the stain is stil there.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and regular bleach did nothing. The stains were showing up after I washed stuff, especially if it sat in a pile of dirty clothes for months on end. It's not totally from deodorant because I had the yellow stains on the backs of some white shirts and the collar areas, not just the armpits. Basically, everywhere I had gotten really sweaty that day.

What I found that works best is OxyClean. I made a paste out of it with a little hot water and I smeared it on the stains and let it sit. They give directions to do that. It didn't smear very well. I don't think I really did it right. I filled up a bucket with the hottest water possible and dissolved a bit more OxyClean in it. I tossed the shirts in and let it all soak for awhile (probably about an hour) When I washed everything, I put in another scoop of OxyClean. When the wash was done, the armpit stains were totally gone. It took out old stains on clothes that had been washed and dried tons of times. It seemed to work best in the places where I smeared the paste. I still had a shirt or two that was still yellowish on the back but I hadn't smeared much there.

(I had tried changing to a 'natural' deodorant before this and it didn't change the stain problem. It was the sweat that was causing it)

Answer 2

believe it or not, dishwasher powder detergent. like cascade, or even the store brand powder. i used to work in a school cafeteria and had to wear all white. you can imagine the stains i got working there. i used to end up throwing out a lot of stuff because i couldn't get the stains out.

Answer 3

Every thried has his withstanding capacity, after two to three months it looses its capacity, it turns to yellowish stains in white shirts.

Answer 4

I have no idea and would like to know myself. But I heard if your wearing black and you get a bit of deodorant on the shirt/dress whatever use pantyhose and rub it off.

Answer 5

Try Oxy Clean.

Answer 6

change deorderants .....