How to get Sunlight Lemon Fresh yellow color out of my shirt collar?

[stylemeup]

I was having a very hard time getting sweat stains out of my shirt collars.

So I looked for tips online.

I ended up saturating a white shirt collar with baking soda, white vinegar, liquid laundry soap, and Sunlight Lemon Fresh dish soap.

Now I have a new problem, in that the Sunlight dish soap is yellow in color, that color from the dish soap has transferred onto the collar of my white shirt, and I don't know how to get it out.

I have tried immersing it in water, and I have tried re-saturating it with more liquid laundry soap and more baking soda and more white vinegar.

However, none of that is removing the yellow color of the dish soap off of my collar.

What can I do that is going to get this yellow color from the dish soap off of my collar?

 

[oucheebooboo]

Ouchee! Sorry to hear about your boo boo.

I imagine the problem is the common, yellow dye 5. (Didn’t see mention of yellow dye in the Sunlight MSDS I reviewed.) You had a few good initial ideas (except for the dye-containing surfactant); don’t use that yellow Sunlight cleaner any further.

May be very tough to get the dye transfer out, especially if you’ve let it dry or applied heat. You’ll probably need to bleach out the stain at this point, but first a few questions:

1. What is the fabric content of the shirt?
2. Have you appplied any heat (water or dryer)?
3. Did you let it dry?
4. Can you upload a pic of the stain?

 

[gimpwiz]

I honestly thought this was remarkably good spam, slipping a product name into an on-topic discussion, from reading the title until I re-read it. Sorry OP. You uh... tried bringing it to a cleaners?

 

[oucheebooboo]

I honestly thought this was remarkably good spam, slipping a product name into an on-topic discussion, from reading the title until I re-read it. Sorry OP. You uh... tried bringing it to a cleaners?

Oops, hadn’t considered any spam appearance! (At least I said, “Stop using it”.)

Something tells me if the OP is trying random, Internets and style fora solutions, he may not be a “dry cleaner aficionado”.

Depending upon time, cloth, stain severity, etc, if the dye transfer was onto white cotton, I’d personally try to get it out myself before I’d send it off to the cleaner. (Hopefully, we’re talking “no heat” and “cotton”.)