Removing Crayon from Washed and Dried Clothes

I never check pockets when I wash clothes, and of course this time I payed the price. I did not realize there was a crayon in a pocket until I dried the load and to my horror saw that I had blue spots on everything. I honestly almost started crying.

I'm so glad I Googled and found this website. I read a lot of ways to help get crayon off, one post said to try LA's Totally Awesome that could be found at a dollar store. Thanks to this tough economy I decided to try this $1.00 product. And let me tell you, thanks goodness for this product.

I soaked the damaged clothes in the washer with hot water (I had a small load of damaged clothes) and poured in half the bottle of LA's Totally Awesome and I let it soak for approximately 30 min. I wanted to be sure the crayon was going to come out so I also scrubbed each piece with a cleaning brush. And wala out came the crayon. I then ran a normal cycle on hot water. Thank you for all the tips. This product will now be a must in my house. Good luck and I hope it works for you as well as it did for me.

Supplies:

1 half bottle aprox LA's Totally Awesome ($1.00)
scrub brush ($1.00)
water

Steps:

Soak clothes in washer with hot water and approximately half a bottle of LA's Totally Awesome in washer for about 30 minutes.

Use scrub brush to scrub out crayon.
I poured some more solution directly on spots if they were not coming out.
Add detergent and wash.

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Lisa Fasanaro S.

June 22, 20131 found this helpful

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I had a large load of clothes along with baby clothes for our unborn son--my faves from my other boys that got washed and dried with at least 3 crayons (prob in a pocket?). Each and every piece had marks all over them - dried crayon lines and my dryer was coated in wax. I literally started crying. Tried soaking and washing 4 times with tide stain booster and oxyclean - no luck.

I ended up soaking in a wash tub (I have a front loader with no soak option) with la's totally awesome detergent for an hour in hot water, then I put all of the clothes in the washer and washed on a sanitary wash for 2 hours. Also added la's totally awesome oxygen stain booster. Amazingly almost all of the marks came out--only a few pieces have light marks on them. One is a white t-shirt that looks like someone drew on it with crayons. Took quite a long time, but the clothes look so much better! Thank you!

monica_wink

January 25, 20190 found this helpful

My 5 year old left a green and a brown crayon in one of his pockets - I missed it and made a disastrous mess of an entire load of clothes including snow suit, and fall/winter down jacket. I wanted to cry. Then saw that the whole inside of my dryer was covered in the greenish-brown wax too!

Thankfully I was able to fix both issues! Thanks to everyone for sharing their tips. I will do the same.
For the dryer:
-ran on highest temperature for 15min then used a hard plastic spatula to scrape off really waxy parts
-used a dryer sheet to rub off the rest
-had to disassemble my lint screen and surround because it was covered in wax pieces - cleaned all with very hot water and a scrub brush
For the clothes:
-in my top load laundry (for front loaders soak in a bucket) filled with hottest water, 3 scoops OxiClean, 1 Scoop Perisil powder detergent, 1 cup Borax and soaked for an hour
-ran heavy duty cycle after soaking and rinsed twice
Since most of these clothes were dark/cold water wash only, I was highly skeptical of not ruining them in the process.
Almost everything came clean after this process and no damage/shrinking to any clothes - AMAZING!
One white turtle neck required a second wash with some stain pre- treat and a little scrub with an old toothbrush.

The same was true of the down jacket, but after a second run it was completely flat and looked like it was past the point of no return.
I ran the down jacket on the lowest heat setting in the dryer and then again on air only setting a total of 3 x 45min cycles with a few tennis balls. Although it took a long time, it did eventually come back to like- new condition. Yay!
Picture below was of down jacket after 1st wash (didn't think to take picture earlier as I was too upset!) then after 2nd wash and 3rd dry.
Hope some more of you can be helped from my experience. Best of luck!

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