Henckel Persil, Lever Persil, Ariel..... which? where?

[kenmoreguy89]

This should be right one, .it won't include completely it in the post for sone reasons.

http://www.henkel.com/laundry-1217.htm?redDotUID=0000000GHM&brand=0000000GH6&param1=history

 

[arbilab]

Thanks all, getting a pretty good picture. I definitely let some of these stains go too long before acting upon them for 'normal' household chemistry to sort. I'll take that loss. Plenty of t-shirts, none of the 'collectible' ones are affected. I'm not going all retentive on the few remaining manchas. Think they will weaken with time.

Besides, I'm old. When someone asks "what's that on your shirt?" (they have) I just say it's blood, I have skin cancer. EVERYbody in this institution has SOMEthing. Not to be overly gruesome, but somebody dies here roughly every other month.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Sorry to hear that, you keep trying with shirts and absolutely keep fighting the SOB!
If you really cannot get them clean with washing for some reasons.....
There are always those dry manual stain treatments that they use in commercial/dry cleaners laundries, like Carbona etc...

http://www.carbona.com/stain-devils-4-blood-and-dairy.html

 

[mich]

For rust stains...

I personally recommend, trying to use "oxalic" acid, which can be found in bar keepers friend. It's gentle, but, it's the strongest chemical (that i know of) capable of removing rust. 

 

Just make a paste of BKF & Water, and it should come out. I do hear vinegar can also work in a pinch. 

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Yes, right, also oxalic acid works, it's another kind of acid usually found in liquid rust removers like products above.
But not sure how much this one safe is to use on colors, always went with the hydrofluoride.
I just came to see hydrofluoridic preparation is safe for colors, does not affect them so I stick with it, should give a try to oxalic on colors ro see reaction...

Any acid will work on iron, acetic, citric etc and so on, so they will work on minerals build up etc.... You just better choose which one works best for every specific use... Some works best on metals, others for minerals etc...
For light rust stains some folks use to put lemon juice or vinegar and cover with salt... but those are the kind of stains that I usually get out with the wash, for really heavy stains they does not work so great like products specific for rust like oxalic or hydrofluoridic can do...