Removing an old, or 'set' as us dry cleaners call it, oil stain can be very hard. But luckily you got me to give you a dry cleaners guide to removing an old oil stain.

These types of stains are so stubborn because they've already been dried, or 'cooked', into fabric. This means w'er going to have to get a bit more creative than normal to remove it.

First, try rubbing in a touch of dish soap. Dish soap is a surfactant which allows grease to become soluble in water. What that means is adding some water will help move it along sooooo

Mix up some warm water and a few drops of dish soap and work that in. I always like like to let my stain treatments sit on the stain for at least 15 minutes before washing.

Lastly, rubbing a tough detergent into the stain will help too. The idea here is that were using multiple types of surfactants to loosen up this grease / soil.

I washed on an express cycle with cold water and then let the pants air dry to ensure the oil stain came out before tumble drying. This is arguably the hardest part of the process as oil stains are invisible on wet garments.

If you stain has come out, then dry as normal. Otherwise you may need to repeat this process a few times before tumble drying.

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