How to remove oil stains from shirt

Oil stains happen frequently, especially while working in kitchen or garages. Moreover the first poor little prey of these oil stains happens to be your shirt. No matter how indifferent or aloof you might happen to be when it comes to looks, yet still you wouldn’t want oil spills all over your front, blighting your shirt’s appearance.

Oil stains on cotton shirts look horrible; as oil might seep into your shirt ruining it for good. Cooking oil, motor oil, oily hair products etc. can mar your favorite cotton shirt, leaving you with no other choice but to discard it off. A much worse scenario is incurring these stains on your silk shirt. Silk is an expensive and delicate fabric, claiming glamor to its name. Yet its beauty can be devastated with a single drop of oil staining its soft and gentle texture.

Prompt and adequate action at your part can save both your cotton and silk shirts from ruin which ensues from oil stain. Follow the tips given below and follow them swiftly; hopefully by the time you are done with these methods, the stain would be nowhere to be seen.

Method One (For the Removal of Oil Stains from Cotton Shirt)

Using WD-40

Do you have that clumsy sibling or spouse who defies the laws of physics, spilling and knocking everything all around? Or perhaps you are that person yourself. For all such people, the following method happens to be like glad tidings from heaven as it goes a long way in the effective removal of oil stains from cotton.

 Things that you will require:

· Liquid dish detergent

· Tooth brush

· Card board

· Q tips

· WD-40

Steps that you need to take:

1.   Primarily, take some generic WD-40. Although, it might appear to be extreme but then desperate times call for desperate measures, and in my dictionary, having your favorite cotton shirt stained with oil is pretty desperate.

2.   Place a cardboard underneath the oil stain. You can place it at the front or at the back of the shirt.

3.   After the placement of this cardboard, spray each oil stain with WD-40.

4.   However, if the stains you have come across with are super tiny, then instead of spraying them with WD-40, take a small bowl and pour some WD-40 in it. Then with the help of a Q Tip, you can dab the stain with this chemical.

5.   Afterwards, take some baking soda and apply it on the stain.

6.   With the help of a tooth brush, start working this soda onto the stain. Rub vigorously with the tooth brush.

7.    After letting it sit in for some time, brush the soda off. This baking soda would have absorbed the oil from the stain.

8.   Eventually to get rid of the remaining oil, baking soda and WD-40 traces, pour some liquid dish washing detergent on the stained area.

9.   Using a tooth brush, work this detergent onto the stain.

10.   Rinse the stain with water and then launder it like you normally do.

11.   You will end up with a shirt as good as new free of oil stains.

Method Two (For the Removal of Oil stains from Silk Shirt)

Using Corn Starch or Citrus Solvent

Corn starch is that amazing ingredient which acts simply and effectively on any oil stain prompting it to get out. The following simple method also deploys the magical stain-lifting powers of corn starch. Embark upon the following method and restore your silk shirt to its magical glory.

Things that you will require:

· Corn starch

· Dry washcloth/ dry brush

· Paper towels

· Iron

· Citrus Solvent

· Cotton swab

Steps that you need to take:

1.   First of all you will need to lay your hands on some corn starch. It is handy to have this amazing product at home always, since it helps in the removal of a multitude of stains.

2.   Apply a liberal layer of this corn starch on the oil stain, and let it sit there for some time, approximately 20 minutes.

3.   Once this time span is over, brush off this corn starch from the stain, using a dry wash cloth or brush. Corn starch will have absorbed most of the oil from the stain.

4.   To take care of the remaining stain traces, take some paper towels. Place a layer of paper towels underneath the oil stain and over it.

5.   Next, take an iron and adjust it on a low heat setting. Iron the paper towel placed on the stain.

6.   Soon, the oil particles will come out of the stain and onto the paper towel.

7.   If corn starch doesn’t work on your stain, then you can also take help of any citrus solvent such as Citra Solve.

8.   Using a cotton swab, dab the stain with this solvent.

9.      Afterwards, you can repeat the iron and paper towel procedure, as elaborated above.

10.   Hopefully, the oil stain will be removed, leaving you with your beautiful silk shirt, free of all sorts of stains.

            

 Tip:

For the removal of oil stains, rubbing alcohol or other dry cleaning solvents such as K2r and Afta can also be used. These solvents ought to be used in a well-ventilated area and on a dry fabric.