Mrs. Fixit: Candy Stains

March 28, 2009

Chocolate. Short of dressing your kids in chocolate brown odds are if they eat chocolate they are going to end up with stains, well, don't worry, everyone has the best stain fighter for chocolate and you probably don't even realize it!

Plain old dish soap applied directly to chocolate stains will remove them in short order - even older stains. Rub it into the fabric and then launder in cold water!

Lollipops are a sticky mess, but luckily are water soluble. So just run hot water over the stickiness to dissolve the sugars and remove the film. If there is a colored stain left behind, rub white shaving cream onto the stain with a toothbrush and then launder.

The warm water will also help loosen lollipops and hard candy that are stuck to household surfaces.

How about gum -the worst of the candied messes! Really the best line of defense is to dissolve the gum. Lubricating oil will dissolve the stickiness and loosen the gum.

Once you've removed it, pull that dish soap back out to break up the oil residue, and then launder it as directed!

Taming the candy stains! I'm Mrs. Fixit and it's just that simple.

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