chocolate stain on white shirt?

Question

okay heres the details my husband just bought a dress shirt and i haven't washed it yet my son put his grubby chocolate cake covered hands all over it.i pretreated it with a stain remover but my question is do i wash it in hot or cold water?

Answer 1

Ha! Ha! Little guy got to it. Try cold water wash, like dried blood, hot water will set the stain, cold washes it out.
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Answer 2

You do not say what your shirt is made of? I'm assuming its a synthetic of some sort. If its a synthetic do not use bleach or oxy-clean on synthetic materials, it will partially melt them. Try the suggested tide to go, but I have real doubts about it working well. Its a cream and fat stain and needs to be removed with hot water and detergent. Take stained area and boil a kettle of water, take boiling water and pour from a height onto fat and chocolate stain, scrub with detergent rinse with hot water.

Answer 3

soak in cold water & put a small drop of washing up liquid on the stain, rub in with your fingers, then pop into the machine on a normal wash. This should remove the stain.

Answer 4

You didn't say what sort of material it was. That being said, have you tried Oxyclean yet? I would wash it in warm water. Hot may ruin the shirt. Cold may set it in more. Good luck.

Answer 5

If you have club soda, I have known that to completely remove chocolate from silk.

Answer 6

wash it in hot water with bleach.

Answer 7

get the stain wet then rub some Dawn Dishwashing Soap on it .That is what I use to get all my stains out....

Answer 8

I dont know if you are willing to do this but, there is an excellent product. It is called Quickstar. I dont know any resources for it but, its better than your average tide.