Dessert Stains

Sock it to chocolate

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02/25/16 • 68024

How do you get sticky candy out of clothes? Happy Halloween! This is the one downside to trick-or-treating – plenty of sticky candy laundry. You didn’t say what type of sticky candy, but I’m guessing it is chewing gum. For that, you can use ice cubes...

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10/31/12 • 28393

What is the best way to remove marshmallow from clothing? S’mores are a summer campfire staple, but they sure can be a sticky mess! Fortunately marshmallows are mostly sugar, water, and gelatin, and dissolve rather easily in water. You can also preso...

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07/25/12 • 8793

How do I remove colored cake icing? Frosting usually contains butter or shortening, or some mixture of the two; and so you do NOT want to rinse the stain first before treating it. Instead, start by gently scraping away as much stain as you can (plast...

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12/26/12 • 4714

Now here's the scoop

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02/25/16 • 5043

Stains are a cakewalk

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02/25/16 • 4470

My children got some chocolate candy from their Halloween loot all over some colored clothing. How should I treat this? Chocolate stains are difficult to remove because they contain so many different components. There can be fats and dairy, as well a...

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11/02/12 • 529

Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, hot chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate pudding… so many forms but so little time to eat them all. While chocolate something is always a decadent dessert choice for a holiday party or even for an evening at home, it ...

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12/20/06 • 313

I used the Clorox® Bleach Pen on a small chocolate stain on a new white knit top. It turned the material yellow, and though I tried everything I could think of to the get the yellow out, you can still see some yellow in the spot. How can I remove the...

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05/12/09 • 347

I have just discovered that a red tootsie roll went through a load of my children’s laundry. It was a load of whites and light-colored clothing. The load went through the washer and dryer. There are red dots of color all over everything. Is the...

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02/25/10 • 354