Mama Says…

When it comes to getting stains out of clothes, I swear by OxiClean. After years of trying different stain removal products, OxiClean is now the only one I use. Nine times out of ten it gets those stubborn, set-in stains out with little effort from me. I love the stuff.

I must admit that when I got my package of OxiClean Versatile Stain Remover in the mail and checked it out, I was a bit suspicious. The stuff looked exactly the same as regular OxiClean – the only difference were the words “versatile” and “stain remover” splashed across the container. One scoop in every load? I thought after reading the instructions. Sounds like a way for me, the consumer, to spend more money than anything else. But I brushed my skepticism aside and quickly got down to the task at hand: a shirt of my daughter’s had permanent marker stains that even my beloved (regular) OxiClean hadn’t gotten out, so I was eager to see if the Versatile could do the job.

It couldn’t. I washed the shirt twice with the Versatile and the stains are still there. I was disappointed that the product hadn’t worked, but then something happened that changed my mind: my daughter started Junior Kindergarten.

What’s that have to do with OxiClean Versatile, you ask?

When I pick her up at the end of the day, she’s filthy. Which is great – I take that as a sign she’s having fun at school. But when I say filthy, I mean filthy. Head to toe, and that includes her clothes. They are dusty and dirty and dotted with slops and grass stains. When I picked her up the first afternoon I looked at her outfit and thought, “How will I get these clothes clean again?”

And then I remembered the Versatile, which frankly, I had stopped using after that failed attempt with the marker stains. I tossed a scoop in the next time I did a load of her clothes and was pleased when they came out of the dryer looking pretty darn good, save a few stubborn grass stains that needed a little extra attention.

I decided to experiment and run the next load of her school clothes without the Versatile to see if there was a difference in the way they washed up, and there was – I noticed the clothes I washed with the Versatile came out looking brighter and crisper.

Colour me impressed. When I first got this stuff I thought there was no way I’d put out extra money for a product that couldn’t take out set-in marker stains, but I’ve been washing all of our clothes with the Versatile for about two and a half weeks now and they all come out looking great every time. Mama Says: I’m sold.