Lipstick Disaster!

Alright, so how many of you have actually forgotten to check your pockets BEFORE you put your clothes through the washer and dryer? How many of you think to check your children's or husband's pockets? Being a mom is crazy! We are always running around and multi tasking trying to get everything done in the short amount of time we spend each day at home.

Just this morning I put a large load of laundry through the washer and dryer with lipstick in the pocket of my jeans. Needless to say, I thought I had just RUINED all my clothes! That..or I would have to fork over a large amount of money to have all my clothes dry cleaned just to get the oily lipstick off. That was what I was going to do until I walked into my kitchen and started washing dishes by hand. As I'm washing the dishes and trying to figure out how to fix my clothes without spending a fortune on dry cleaning I realized my dawn dish soap fights oil and grease. Hmmm...I thought...could this work on my clothes?!

Out of curiosity I took all my clothes and applied a small amount of dawn dish soap to every spot of hot pink lipstick I could find on my clothes. Then I filled up the washer with warm water and threw in my clothes with the dawn dish soap. I allowed my clothes to soak for two hours then I ran them through the cycle. To my amazement it worked!!! The lipstick came off!

Then to finish up I ran the clothes through the washer again this time with laundry detergent and any remaining oily marks or lipstick came right out and my clothes were like new again! Thank goodness!!! It would have cost a lot of money to replace all my Gap, White House Black Market, Express and Cache clothing!!!