How to Get Dirt out of a Dress Shirt Collar
A dirty collar on a dress shirt is a pretty significant laundry faux pas. To look clean, crisp and professional, the collars of all your shirts must be pristine. This isn't so hard to accomplish on striped shirts or on darker colors in which a small stain might be disguised, but even the tiniest stain looks huge on a white shirt collar. Taking the proper steps ensures a clean collar the next time you put on your shirt. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Remove the collars stays from the dress shirt before you do any cleaning or laundering to prevent them from getting lost or falling out in the machine.
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Soak the dirty shirt in a tub of cold water.
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Spray the stain on the collar with a stain-removal pre-wash spray, or rub it with a stain removal stick. Always follow the directions on the particular product that you use. Rub some shampoo into the stain if you don't have a pre-made stain removal product.
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Rub the stain gently with a toothbrush until the collar appears clean.
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Wash the shirt according to the wash instructions on the label.
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Examine the collar carefully. Make sure that the stain is gone before you dry it, if it is a shirt that is machine dried. Heat in a dryer causes some stains to set, becoming permanent.
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Tips & Warnings
After the initial process, if you haven't removed dirt stains from the collar of a white shirt, run it through the washing machine again with some laundry bleach. Follow the instructions on the bleach's label.
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