Crayon Stains

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Advice from our experts •
02/25/16 • 17491

I ran my child’s clothes through the dryer without realizing there was a crayon in there too. How can I remove the stain? It doesn’t matter whether the crayon melted in the pocket of a sweatshirt left in the hot car or accidentally went through a hot...

Advice from Dr. Laundry •
02/08/13 • 776

My daughter had a crayon in her jacket when I washed and dried it. Well our clothes had pink crayon on it when I removed them from the dryer. I sprayed with Oxy Clean Max and then put them in the washer on sanitize hoping the crayon would come out. I...

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01/25/16 • 312

My 8yr old daughter left a blue crayon in her pants and before I found it. The whole load had gone through the dryer, now I have blue spots on everything in that load (colored clothes). Is there anything that would remove the stains? OUCH! I hate whe...

Advice from Dr. Laundry •
03/13/07 • 52

I still don’t know how to remove crayon from colored clothes. Help! —Jayvon Hi There, That’s a really old post-written 10 years ago by the first Dr. Laundry, who retired in 2010. Did you try any of his suggestions? I take a little different app...

Advice from Dr. Laundry •
04/20/17 • 88

It doesn’t matter whether a crayon melted in the pocket of a sweatshirt left in the hot car or accidentally went through a hot dryer—you have quite a problem to deal with. Crayons have a waxy component that doesn’t break up in a detergent and ...

Advice from Dr. Laundry •
09/05/12 • 46