What's the best way to remove a grease stain from jeans?

Question

I dripped some vegetable oil on my favorite pair of jeans. I rubbed some dishwashing liquid and water on the spot and washed them in cold water, but it's still there. Anyone have a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To remove grease stains from clothing (black grease from vehicles) use bathing soap - the milder the better! Works like a charm.

I have cleaned Grease from jeans with pure vegetable shortening, and it worked ok, but I found that Mechanics Hand Cleaner works everytime.

Grease - Sponge spot with a mixture of 1Tbs. Salt to 4 Tbs. rubbing alcohol. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. If spot still remains, do not dry, use dry cleaning solvent and re-wash.
Grease spots generally may be removed with hot water and soap. If the stains have become fixed by long standing, the may be removed by chloroform, ether or naphtha. If any of these chemical are used, keep them at a safe distance from fire or artificial light.
To remove grease from silk, lay the silk on a table on top of a clean white cloth. cover the spot thickly with powdered French chalk. On this lay a sheet of blotting paper and over that a moderately hot iron. If the grease does not disappear at once, repeat process.
Grease/Oil/Tar - Method 1: Use powder or chalk absorbents to remove as much grease as possible. Pretreat with detergent or non-flammable dry cleaning solvent, or liquid shampoo. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric, using plenty of detergent. Method 2: Rub spot with lard and sponge with a non-flammable dry cleaning solvent. Wash in hottest water and detergent safe for fabric.

Answer 2

Rule of thumb, if it's grease it will be removed by grease,as long as you pre-treat before you wash. If you wash it first and dry it ,what you are doing is permanently setting it in. And for goodness sake DO NOT USE BLEACH. WD40 will work or any other degreaser. Just rub in, let sit for awhile, then rinse, use some detergent (tide) rub again, then throw in the wash. It should come out.

Answer 3

Another trick is to use Lest Oil. My husband has the worst habit of leaving chap stick in his pants pockets. When the clothes get washed, the chap stick melts and makes stains all over the clothes. The only thing I ever found that got the stain out was Lest Oil. It works on all kinds of stains.

Answer 4

Call the Jean police... It's a jean emergency...You need support groups - there may be a local stained jean support club in your area... We need to elect a President who will address these pressing problems...

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Answer 5

I always use shout in the detergent department....but you could use shampoo and hot hot water...it does the trick to get all the grease out of your clothes.

Answer 6

Oxyclean

Answer 7

Try the dish liquid again but use hot, hot, hot water.

Answer 8

dawn ultra dishwashing liquid and hot hot water!!

Answer 9

best bet is to do other side of jeans in similar fashion tomatch they do it for holes in em