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I hate finding stains on all the clothes. I have been guilty of leaving things in my pocket, gum, for example has been in my work uniform on more than one occasion. Thanks for the great tip. I will have to use this the next time (hopefully there won’t be one) I leave something in my pocket and try to blame my husband.ReplyCancel
Spray area with vinegar let it soak. Take a toothbrush scrub gently. Repeat til gone… Kids did this to my favorite comforter whoch sat unused for a couple years due to the gr eat putty incident of 08. Found tip online did in 2012 still pulled the crusted mess out. Comforter restored. Thanks bored housemoms 😉ReplyCancel
I did something similar. Used a small pot of water and pot treated a small patch of red crayon on a 35 dollar duvet pillow cover. I thought it was ruined. I started dipping it in the hot water and then using dawn soap then dipping again. Then I followed it up by putting vinegar on it which really helped. The last thing I did was use a paper towel to dab the spot and it worked. The pillow is saved and there is not trace of red on it. Thanks for the advice!ReplyCancel
I have read hundreds of posts that this solution will work….it is not working for me and I am very distraught. My three kids start school tomorrow and I washed ALL of their uniform shirts tonight in prep for school tomorrow and ALL of them have red crayon on them (white and light blue oxfords and polos). I am on my second attempt repeating the boiling water, soak 15 min, extra dawn, extra vinegar, laundry detergent and wash cycle. I am not optimistic and have about 16 shirts that I probably have to replace at this point. Any idea why this isnt working for me? I am willing to try anything at this point..replacing all these uniform shirts will be incredibly expensive.
Thanks for any tips you can provide.ReplyCancel
I am so glad I found this! I had done a tremendous load of laundry with probably 3/4 of my sons clothes in it. After finding out what had happened and finding your advice I broke that giant load into two smaller loads to try the trick. The nylon clothes did great. The cotton clothes are on their third cycle. I’m not giving up yet, but I can say that the porous cotton is holding onto the crayon so much more than the nylon. Oh well at least it’s not a total loss. Thanks for the advice! So appreciative.ReplyCancel
my dryer is broken so i did two loads of laundry at home, basically all of my go-to clothing for myself and daughter, put it all in a gigantic dryer at the laundry mat and just pulled them out to find red crayon on everything. i googled solutions when i got to work and found this. i will be trying this at home tonight. thank you so much. i hope, hope, hope it’ll work! thank you!ReplyCancel
This worked so well! My three year old “helped” Mommy put the laundry into the dryer today, and in doing so left a blue crayon in the dryer. Surprise!!!
Used this method in my front load washer by pouring the soap, vinegar and boiling water into my washing machiene’s soap dispenser. Voila!
We only had one blue casualty, a waffle weave dress, out of an entire load of clothes including my husbands crisp white button downs. This saved my bacon! Thank you!ReplyCancel
Hi there. Do you remember what temperature your wash was set to and how much boiling water you added to your machine’s soap dispenser, approx.? (I think I will try it your way, as I live in a condo building and we have strict rules about only using the dispensers to add liquids – not into the front loader drum itself). Thank you.ReplyCancel
Y’all are absolutely BRILLIANT!!! My 15 year old was doing her own laundry and she threw in her 8 yr old sister’s jacket in the wash. Little did we know the 8 yr old had blue and yellow crayons in her pocket!!! Ughhh!!!
We followed your simple steps and amazingly ALL of the crayon came out….and there was a lot of it!!!
Thank you again!
MicheleReplyCancel
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much for sharing this trick. I cried when I saw my daughter’s volleyball jersey covered in red crayon today. I did use a Fels-Naptha bar and super hot water . It turned the crayon orange-yellow but I am trying your trick now and praying it comes out of everything else. ?ReplyCancel
I have a HE washer and when I try to pour the boiling water in to soak, the stupid washer automatically drains the excess. There is no soak setting. There is literally no way to have clothes submerged in water in this washer. Our bathtubs are out of the question, since I don’t want to carry boiling water up the stairs. So angry at my washer I could pull an Office Space on it! Never buy the HE washers!ReplyCancel
OMG you saved my life and laundry!!! I followed your instructions (added 1 full cup of vinegar) and all but 1 of my items has been cleared of blue crayon. The only item that didn’t fully clean was the pair of footed pjs my daughter had hidden the crayon in…but hey not too bad! Thank you thank you thank you!!
AjaReplyCancel
I’m crossing my fingers and praying (for my daughter’s sake) that this works! A few days ago my daughter wore her North Face fleece to “help” her grandfather work on a vehicle. She came home with it covered in grease. I kept my composure and told her to get the fleece and the shell (it was a NF jacket that the fleece liner unzips to make 2 jackets) and check the pockets before putting it in the washer. Well, she didn’t check the pockets and everything came out with blue crayon all over it. I have it in the washer on sanitize with the vinegar and Dawn right now and I’m praying this works.ReplyCancel
Yesterday I washed a HUGE load with about 75% of the clothes my kids own. After the dryer I realized…green and yellow crayon in one of the pockets 🙁 It was on everything. This totally worked! I didn’t even do the boiling water step because I’m lazy (and our water is really hot). Thanks so much!! ReplyCancel
THANK YOU.
I was doing a major bedding deep clean today, had even unzipped the covers off our Tempur-Pedic mattresses, and asked my son to change his little brothers sheet and toss it in with my last load of the evening. Fast forward and he was also tasked with putting that load into the dryer. He didn’t look and a red crayon was EVERYWHERE on the white pillowcases, the zip covers.. I was so upset. Google brought me to your site and I didn’t measure but dumped vinegar in my HE Washer’s tub, squeezed a bunch of blue Dawn, loaded the dispenser up with Tide, set it to sanitize with an extra prewash… and waited the 2.5 hours for the washer to do its thing.
At 1am it sang it’s song and I anxiously ran to see… BEAUTIFUL. One of my beloved white shams that has been piling was almost good as new (& now doesn’t match its twin, ha!).
Thank you thank you thank you.
My son thanks you too 😉 ReplyCancel
Won’t washing clothes with the hottest water possible shrink them? I have bright orange crayon (already gone through the dryer) all over a bunch of my toddlers clothes and am trying hard to find a solution that isn’t spraying WD-40 all over his clothes but if I wash most of his clothes in hot hot water I’m afraid all these clothes will shrink and he won’t be able to wear them anyways! Help please!ReplyCancel
This saved us after a blue crayon landed in our kids clothes! We have a front load HE washer with no soak feature, so we made some adjustments, but it worked! We ran this on a sanitary load with oxiclean in the tub along with 1c vinegar and 1/4c (4Tbsp) dawn dish soap and tide ultra strength as detergent. This worked in one wash for clothes that were merely stained. But for the clothes that had thick chunks of wax, we needed more. So I filled my utility sink with super hot water and even added a few kettles full of boiling water to it and added some vinegar and dawn, then soaked the clothes for an hour and scrubbed the thick wax out. This took about 3 hours of scrubbing, but the wax was incredibly thick because these were fancy beeswax crayons a grandparent had given the kids (never again!). I just used a toothbrush and dawn for thin fabrics (onesies) and a dish scrub brush and dawn for thick fabrics (fleece, jeans). Then, once the wax was out, I soaked in oxiclean for an hour then ran the cycle again on sanitary with the vinegar and dawn as described and presto! The clothes look great; a few very light stains on a couple of items, but on play clothes, and they’ll probably come out in a few more regular washes. Anyway, if the regular method isn’t working for you, try the soak and scrub! And thank you for saving us from using wd-40!ReplyCancel
This definitely helped me recover from 4 different crayons that got into the wash and then dried. Sadly, not everything survived. A white shirt never recovered and few darker color shirts the color came out but had grease stains where the crayon was before. So not a shirt I’ll have my son wear again. But all non-cotton, most cotton, and all mixed material clothing came out 95% better. As mentioned before, som color remains in bands and also the white lining of pockets, but that’s OK. Thanks for this advice!ReplyCancel
OMG!!! You just saved an entire washer full of my clothes. I also put a small piece of red crayon in my pocket and forgot about it. Your front loader directions worked 95% of the red out and a second time through made it all 100% clean. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this valuable crayon removing tutorial. MaggieReplyCancel
Side note: I have a he washer, and so I put the clothes in the tub with the hottest water I could, plus a pot of boiling water. A little laundry detergent, vinegar and Dawn dish soap and let it soak, stirring it with a wooden spoon every once in a while. Then moved it to the washer, laundry detergent, vinegar (through the bleach door) and put a little more Dawn in.ReplyCancel
My washer won’t let me put water in it to pre-soak, however, it does have a pre-soak option….hoping the water will be hot enough and that adding the vinegar and dawn will help. Any suggestions why my washer just drains like a sink? I read that HE washers do this because they weigh they clothes then determine how much water to use. ReplyCancel
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