My husband is a manager of a restaurant and always has stains on his dress shirts and pants. They range from grease, ink, actual blobs of sauce and whatnot, dirt, grime, to assorted other "mystery" stains.

Needless to say, I have to pre-treat all of his work clothes.

A few years ago I started to buy the 300 oz SUN brand laundry detergent, it runs about
$5-$6 at most discount stores, and re-filling the pre-treater spray bottle with it instead of buying expensive pre-treatments at $2.50-$3.50 per 22 oz bottle. It also comes with a convienent push button dispenser built right in so re-filling is quick and easy.

I would have to buy almost 14 bottles of the pre-treater to get the same amount of liquid and it would cost me anywhere from $34-$47 depending on the brand. WOW! It is a phenonemal savings and the laundry detergent is the same nice thick consistency as the Shout or Spray and Wash so it sits on the stain instead of running off, and it WORKS! Believe me, if it gets all the crud off my DH's clothes, it will get it off anyones!

Thanks for the tip.

I have found that pretreating stains with dish soap does a really good job. i have tried it on blood, grease stains, toothpaste stains, food stains (who would of thought ), etc. Hope this helps someone,
Deanna

I do this as well. But I found out the hard way, you CANNOT mix dish soap or anything else wtih oxy clean (powder). It bleached out the clothes I had stains on, and barely touched the stain. Samantha's Disney store pants that match an outfit were ruined.

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I pretreat with hydrogen peroxide a lot. It helps, and it is also cheap!

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