I was going through my never ending pile of laundry yesterday when I found it. You know what I mean. The dreaded mystery stain. I don’t know what it is or when it happened, but I do know it’s been sitting in the hamper for at least three days. And then I found the grass stain on Tee’s jeans from yesterday that I forgot to pretreat. Sigh. Well, I guess the silver lining here is that this is the perfect opportunity to test out the Purex plus Oxi liquid laundry detergent I received last week.
My usual brand of laundry detergent is Purex. I get it in the huge bottles from Costco, and I like it because it works, it’s economical, and it smells nice. This Purex plus Oxi formula’s Fresh Morning Burst scent is pretty strong straight out of the bottle, but I quite liked it once the clothes were washed and dried. I didn’t find it overwhelming at all.
Another thing I like about this detergent? You can use it in either high efficiency washing machines or standard top loading machines, so no worries about accidentally buying the wrong version for your machine. (Because I would never do something like that!)
This Purex comes with Oxi and Zout stain removers, which are supposed to let me use the detergent as a pretreater as well as regular laundry detergent. I followed the pretreater instructions and poured a little Purex plus Oxi onto the stains and rubbed it in.
After five minutes, I threw it into my HE front loading washing machine and washed as normal. So how did it do?
See for yourself! The mystery stain was completely gone!
Okay, so what about that grass stain?
Unfortunately, the grass stain was still just barely visible after pretreating and washing. I don’t think you can even see it in the photo, but in real life I could still faintly see it. I washed the jeans again in Purex plus Oxi and it was completely gone the second time around. Not perfect, but I’ll take it!
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Disclosure: I received sample items for review purposes. All opinions expressed are completely honest and my own, based on my personal experience. Your experience may differ.
Baby food stains!
Blackberry stains are the worst stains for me to get out!
thanks
I find grease stains the toughest.
Grease stains
Probably grass stains from the rough and tumble fall play.
the ones you can’t identify are usually the worst, then there’s blood, grass, red mud and the list goes on and on
The worst stains to get out are oil stains which I get from splatters while frying something.
Deodorant and grease stains!
My worst stains to get out are arm pit stains.
The worst stains to get out are grease and blood.
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Grass and oil stains are the worst!
Yellow underarm perspiration stains are the hardest to get out.
grease stains from cooking!!
Grass stains!
Grass stains are the worst. Thanks for the great giveaway! π
oil and grease
My worst Stain I would have to say is Ketchup!!! =)
Olive oil…
Cheers.
Vegetable oil!
Grease and oil stains. The Boyfriend is a home mechanic and his clothes are always a challenge.
Tomato soup are the ones that make me cry the most.
Grease stains!
Definitely food stains!
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My worst stains to try to get out are in my husbands work clothes! Oil, etc.
Motor oil.
heavy duty motor oil and grease stains and the smell YUCK!
my boyfriend works in construction so my worst stains are mud and the smell of hard work
blood, chocolate pudding, coffee, clamato juice and ketchup!
Sounds like one heck of a party! π
LOL I have 5 sons and a hubby so… LOL
Grease stains are a challenge for me.
Just random dirt from sitting on the dirty bus seats every day, sweat stains on white shirts, oil stains from when my husband cooks bacon and it splashes on him…
Oil stains!
My worse stain has to be canned spaghetti stains. Thank you:)
Chocolate on white – we don’t wear white in this house any longer!
Coffee stains
All stains are the worst. Seriously, if there’s a stain, I just donate the clothes. I have a load of Purex with Oxi in the washer, hoping that it works some magic.
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Blackberries….
Yellow mustard!
grease from hubby’s pants
Grease and grass stains are always a challenge.
Worse stain ever is getting butter out of clothes
Grass and grease!
Spaghetti stains are horrible to try and get out.
pasta sauce
I find grease stains so difficult!
Grease stains and pasta sauce are the worst for me!
car grease is my worst stain