Emulsion Stains on Baby Clothes

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 46

Emulsion Stains on Baby Clothes

Dear Aunt Daisy, Although I feel sure that " Young N.Z. Mother’s" recipe for the above is an excellent one, I would like to tell you of a much more simple method. All that is necessary is to use a cake of a certain pure white vegetable-oil soap. Make a good lather with warm water and wash the garment thoroughly. If the stain is a bad one, rub the soap on the spot (it will not turn the wool yellow). Rinse well. I have tried this method many times, and it has never failed. I have also passed it on to several of my friends who have all been delighted with the result. While on the subject of washing " woollies,’ I find that if they are always laid flat in their proper shape, between towels, covered with newspaper, and laid on the floor under a mat which has plenty of "traffic" over it, and left for a day, then hung over the line, just long enough to air them thoroughly there will be no heart+ burning over baby’s dainty garments getting yellow and thickening up. I have little frocks which have been worn by both our daughters, that are still white and new looking, though they have been washed many times with this vegetable oil soap, and dried by the above method, Needless to say the, garments need no pressing after this treatment. Before closing, I should like to say how much I appreciate your pages in The Listener.-Constant Reader (Napier). Thank you sod much. If readers send me a stamped addressed envelope, I can tell them the brand of soap-unless they are able to guess it.