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The Chirping Moms

An Awesome Alternative Use for Dawn Soap

October 23, 2014

I haven’t been this excited about a new household trick in long time. Did you know you can use Dawn dish soap to pre-treat a stain? On my way downstairs to the laundry, I pass right by our kitchen sink and Dawn dish soap every day. I head down to use overpriced stain removers on my kids clothes. My kids clothes are a mess every day after playing outside, eating every meal, etc. Now I just pre-treat the stains with a little Dawn, and I have far better results than I used to. It’s this easy:

How To Pre-Treat A Stain Using Dawn:

1. Apply Dawn directly to any cotton/polycotton fabric, covering the entire stained area

2. Rub it in using your fingers.

3. Wash it normally with Tide in your washing machine (Do not reapply Dawn to the same spot and wash again.)

I took some pictures on a particularly messy day in our house. One shirt was trashed by the Strawberry Monster and the other attacked by the Chocolate Monster (i’ll let you guess who was who). I treated both the strawberry and the chocolate stains with nothing by Dawn dish soap, put them in the wash with our regular Tide and they came out like new! I love our new way to use Dawn beyond the sink. 

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This is a sponsored post. As always, all opinions are our own. 

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Comments

  1. julie bobrowski says

    October 23, 2014 at 1:36 am

    My worst stains are blood and grass. Those are the worst and craziest stains to get out of clothes!

    Reply
  2. Jessica @ Better Together and Forever says

    October 23, 2014 at 7:39 am

    How ironic is it that you post about Dawn being a great stain remover and I forgot to get some stain remover from Target last night! Instead of going out to get that stain remover, I'm going to try the Dawn Dish soap. Thanks!

    Reply
  3. Laura Ryder says

    October 23, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    I seem to have greasy food stains that NEVER come out. I will have to try this. Is it the blue Dawn only?

    Laura @ Mice In the Kitchen

    Reply
  4. Jessica Hessig says

    October 23, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    My mom uses a Dawn and baking soda, I believe, combination and has gotten out year old grease and oil marks/stains!

    Reply
  5. Jessica Hessig says

    October 23, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    My baby is breastfed and if we are out and he has a blowout. I'll rinse it out, but that poo stinks and is so yellow it takes a lot of elbow grease to get those bad boys clean!

    Reply
  6. Breenah A says

    October 23, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    I don't even know what my worst stains are, they're all mystery stains from my toddler.

    Reply
  7. Sandra Meaders says

    October 23, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    arm pit stains

    Reply
  8. AndreaC says

    October 23, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    ketchup and spit up!!

    Reply
  9. Leah Wall says

    October 25, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    my worst laundry stains are usually craft supplies or oil

    Reply
  10. carol clark says

    October 25, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    was crazy glue if finally wore off and red clay i got stuck about amonth and a half ago and i had my white pants on and now i wear them to do outside work

    Reply
  11. penni says

    October 25, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    My worst stains are blood and ink!

    Reply
  12. Aubrey Laine says

    October 25, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    Blueberry stains!

    Reply
  13. Anne Stewart says

    October 26, 2014 at 1:50 am

    I have a toddler so grass stains, poop stains, food stains–yep just about anything haha!

    Reply
  14. sdlashbrook says

    October 26, 2014 at 4:45 am

    Sharpie is the worst!

    Reply
  15. laborders2000 says

    October 26, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    My worst stain would have to be the baseball stains my boys get yearly! I hate having to get out the clay and grass stains.

    Reply
  16. Jessie Larson says

    October 26, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    My kids are the messiest! Chocolate, strawberries, popsicle, and any kind of sauce are my stains!

    Reply
  17. Kimberly Munoz says

    October 27, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    Yay for new ideas. I never seem to get stains out! I'm definitely trying this one!

    Reply
  18. Kimberly Munoz says

    October 27, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    I'm definitely going to try this one! I've never seen to quite get stains out!

    Reply
  19. Anonymous says

    October 28, 2014 at 3:28 am

    Arm pit stains.

    Crystal

    Reply
  20. Anonymous says

    October 28, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Blueberry Stains!

    Savings K

    Reply
  21. George says

    January 19, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    A great stain remover is steamer. It is so difficult to quite get stains out!

    Reply

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