Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

The results are moderate, but it's not entirely gone. I'm gonna try a couple of other things and see what happens.

Shangas said:

The results are moderate, but it's not entirely gone. I'm gonna try a couple of other things and see what happens.

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Just thought I'd check up on the progress,and I hope you realize I was kidding about cutting the arms off of it.
Good luck.

In all honesty, back in the old days, that's what people used to do. Chop off the sleeves and turn them into short-sleeved shirts. But I'm not quite ready to try doing that!!

I've treated the stain with AMODEX stain-remover. It's too early to tell the exact results, but it looks promising. I'll find out once everything's dried up, what the end result will be.

Since it's white and since it's cotton, set it out in the sun. Set it flat on a white sheet.

Shangas said:

In all honesty, back in the old days, that's what people used to do. Chop off the sleeves and turn them into short-sleeved shirts. But I'm not quite ready to try doing that!!

I've treated the stain with AMODEX stain-remover. It's too early to tell the exact results, but it looks promising. I'll find out once everything's dried up, what the end result will be.

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I'm kind of a farm boy and when my flannel shirts or denim shirts wear out at the elbows out come the scissors

KILO NOVEMBER said:

In the US, "Vanish" is a brand of highly caustic toilet bowl cleaner. So, depending on which is sold where you live, look both ways before crossing the street.

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OH lord...have mercy!!! Vanish....I heard some people have a form of that stuff made strictly for "instant divorce" !!!!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeee....just kidding!


I sure hope by the time this shirt has had everything tried on it for that stain, that there is going to be a shirt left!?!???

I just got a bad black stain from my shoes on the inside (down near the cuff) of one of my best winter cream/white silk and wool pants. It took me perhaps 20 minutes to clean it with merely a bar of soap and rubbing it gently with a white clean wash clothe and very little cold water. It came off fairly easy, there was that sort of wet spot with some dark to it, more water on the wash clothe and of course I used a rubber band to pull just the spot area together so I would not bleed the stain into the rest of the area too much. But it came out, spent more time rinsing that cleaning it. When it started to dry, I used another dry clean white wash clothe and presto, you cannot tell the shoe polish was ever there to begin with, all I need to do now is take a steam iron to the spot area so it is nice and flat and smoothed out like the rest of the pant leg.

If you do not get your shirt clean, geez, I wish I was close to you, I am sure I would get that stain out. I have even gotten ink out of white dress shirts from a ink pen that leaked really bad on a white poplin shirt pocket. Pockets are hard as where they are sewn to the shirt, stains sort of stay and collect into all the extra material.

Well I tried my damndest. I'd say I was pretty successful. It's not really there anymore. There is a slight off-white mark, but you'd only notice it if the light's at the right angle and brightness and whatever. Essentially, you wouldn't see it if you weren't told about it. Which I suppose is the best that can be hoped for.

Shangas said:

Well I tried my damndest. I'd say I was pretty successful. It's not really there anymore. There is a slight off-white mark, but you'd only notice it if the light's at the right angle and brightness and whatever. Essentially, you wouldn't see it if you weren't told about it. Which I suppose is the best that can be hoped for.

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Good for you Shangas you just saved having to cut the sleeves off(haha)

Removing stains is always a finicky thing. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes you just...ain't. I dripped fountain pen ink on my trousers once. It was black, the trousers were brown. I removed the stain, but it took a LOT of effort and a fair bit of swearing. But they were salvaged.

I was less lucky in trying to remove the ink from a shirt, but it was going to be chucked out anyway, so I'm not fussed.

At least you have success on the stain removal.