Grease stains are famously difficult to remove from clothing and stain removers can be very expensive. Here is a cheap solution: empty a can of coke into your wash along with the usual detergent and run it through a normal cycle. This is also quite effective for removing blood and it helps to deodorise smelly clothes.
The reason it can break up stains is thanks to the carbonic and phosphoric acid inside. Most people hear about this ingredient and wonder how Coca Cola is safe to drink, but as Snopes details the amounts inside are too small to have any impact on your tough stomach — just your dirty laundry. While you might not want to drink a ton of Coca Cola thanks to the (real or artificial) sugar and sodium content, you and your soon-to-be clean clothes will be just fine.
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Yavuz
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:47 AMThe link to Listverse is prefixed with the URL of this article so it doesn’t work.
Pauly7
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:16 AMMaybe the US gets free cans of Coke handed out, but at one can per wash, it is far more expensive than stain removers.
IJustKnowStuff
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:33 AMWould this be ok to use on whites?
Deb
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5:17 PMtalc works really well for getting grease out! Rub it in, leave it for a few hours and wash the grease away!