A New Use For Toilet Bowl Cleaner

[Nexus6]

Greetings everyone.

I would like to share a tip with you all.

It happens to even the best of us, sooner or later.
The dreaded ink stain on the shirt.

Worst case scenario...
You've gotten an ink stain on your shirt.
No water in sight
You know you are doomed, and quickly reside to the fact, that by the time you get home,
you have lost a potentially valuable investment.

Well don't give up on that shirt just yet...

Yesterday, I got an ink stain on a nice Pal Zileri.
Didn't even notice it until I got home.
The shirt is 100% cotton.

The stain had already dried, but I was not worried.
I got out the toilet bowl cleaner bottle,
laid the shirt on the counter of the kitchen sink,
and got to work.

Applying a single drop of the liquid toilet bowl cleaner to the stain,
I then, very lightly, sprinkled a bit of baking soda on top of the drop of cleaning liquid.

A wonderful foaming effect ensued.
I left the shirt to sit for 5-7 minutes,
and then, using an old toothbrush,
started tapping the brush and swirling the mixture into the stain.

Tapping & swirling for about 5 minutes,
I then left the shirt to rest again.

5 more minutes later,
I returned to the shirt,
added a drop of water,
and, by hand,
started to rub the fabric together, the way our mothers and grandmothers, etc.
had done for centuries before...

after all of this,
I got the shirt under running warm water from the tap.
worked out the cleaning solvent from the shirt.

Now usually at this point, the stain would be gone,
but in this case, the stain was reduced by 70%.

Now I laid out the shirt again,
added another drop of Toilet Bowl Cleaner liquid.
and left the shirt to just sit for about 15 minutes.

Then returned and worked the toothbrush to it again,
tapping and swirling.

Basically, you repeat the procedure until the stain is gone,
or at least gone enough that you can live with it.

The results, I will post in pictures in a few hours.....

I hope this helps someone out there in the future.

Disclaimer If you try this, you do so at your own risk. I promise nothing.
however, I have personally found this method to work on almost any stain, new or old.
I have even found this method to work after my professional dry cleaner failed with all their industrial tactics.

 

[JayJay]

I'm very interested in seeing the pics. What led you to use toilet bowl cleaner and which product did you use?

 

[dshreter]

Don't most toilet bowl cleaners have bleach in them? I hope your shirt doesn't end up with a hole burnt through it.

I've had surprisingly good luck with Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap myself.

 

[Nexus6]

Hi everyone,
OK I am back with the pictures.

To orient yourself where the stain is,
See the button..then count 3 squares to the right
Should look like this ...

[ ][ ][ ][x] <<Stain HERE
O [ ][ ][ ]

To the naked eye, in sunlight,
I was able (in this case) to remove 95% of the stain.
I dare not go any further,
because the abrasiveness of the baking soda & rubbing,
will damagae the fabric.

Thankfully, in this case, a tie will cover the area anyway,
but when the tie shifts, no one will even see that a stain was ever there.

For this example, I used
-1 Medium Toothbrush
-Lysol Toilet Cleaner
-Any Baking Soda will do.


I will post a better 'Before & After' thread,
when the next fiasco comes.

I hope this will help someone out there!

Disclaimer
Smokers need not try this method on teeth.

 

[JayJay]

I'm glad it worked out for you, but there's no way I'd try this.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by JayJay

I'm glad it worked out for you, but there's no way I'd try this.

I certainly would, especially if the drycleaner failed and the shirt became unwearable.

But first I would try the Tide pen, then the cleaners. This would obviously be a last resort.

 

[Bounder]

While I have to admire the inventiveness (I particularly like the touch of adding baking soda), why not try something like this instead?

http://www.carbona.com/index.asp?Pag...PROD&ProdID=33