vanish stain remover stained and ruined clothes!

[babycrazy1706]

My LO has a gorgeous yellow cable knit jumper from united colours of benetton and it had a tiny mark on the front from today. I put some stain remover on to pre treat and it has turned the jumper orange in patches. I've washed it again and its still stained. Its ruined. I don't usually get too bothered about things like this but its a really special jumper my mum bought him from italy. Any idea of how to get it out??

 

[Lianne1986]

this happened to me. the kids got stains in their blue polo school tops and I used vanish and they went orange! I threw them away. I don't think u will be able to get it out, its stripped the fabric of its colour I think

xx

 

[KayBea]

its basically bleached the colour out so theres no way to get it back to its original colour unless you maybe dye it?
xx

 

[Pandora11]

Baking soda works wonders with stains

 

[Eleanor ace]

Since it's bleached it I don't think there's anything you can do

 

[smileyfaces]

Well I would defo be complaining to Vanish!!

 

[lovelylaura]

its bleached it , did you use the one for whites?

 

[Lianne1986]

im sure it says do a test patch 1st x

 

[Erised]

They cover themselves by saying to test it on a non-noticeable patch first as it can react with some fabrics. Complaining to them most likely won't do a thing.

I doubt there is a way to 'fix' it, as it does indeed sound like the colour has been stripped. Think your best bet would be to try and get it the same colour over all and then diy dye it.

 

[Rachel_C]

I don't think you'll get it out unfortunately. I'd have a look for something to remove the colour from the whole top (Dylon do a colour remover I think but I'm sure there are others) and then try re-dying it. If it's wool you should be able to dye it easily enough (check the suitability of the colour remover and dye though!) but if it's acrylic you may need special dye. I think you can get them from ebay but I can't remember the name/type so you'd have to Google.

 

[lhancock90]

I'd be writing a strongly worded complaint!