by Kathryn
(Michigan)
Kathryn has provided a review of Shout Wipes, and also the original Shout stain remover.
by SR101 Reader
I am a kindergarten teacher and kids get spills all the time.
It upsets me when parents tell their kids not to get dirty. Really!! They are 5.
Anyway one day a boy in my class was so upset about a spill on his shirt so I took out the Shout Wipes I keep in my drawer for me and used it on his shirt. The boy stopped crying.
I finally decided to send a note home about telling your child not to get dirty because of all the anxiety they were causing their children.
Anyway I agree Shout is the best.
When my daughter was a baby she scooted on one side instead of crawling.
She always had lots of dirt on one side of her clothes. Shout always did the trick.
Photo courtesy of MrGuilt
by Taylor
I know a lot of people love Shout Wipes, including my Mom who is a huge advocate of this portable stain remover.
If she's told me once she's told me a hundred times I should carry these little towelettes around with me for spot emergencies, and even went so far as to give me some.
Therefore, when my son dipped his shirt sleeve in spaghetti sauce while eating (how do kids always seem to do that?) I thought I had the perfect opportunity to document how these little wipes work in action.
Unfortunately, at least for me, the results were less than stellar.
Almost as soon as it happened I jumped up from the dinner table and had him change shirts, so I could test the product just like you would in real life. I didn't have him wear it though while I tried to remove the stain -- he was still shoveling in spaghetti after all. :)
As you can see from my collage of pictures of before, during and after, the product got out some of the spot, but not all of it. I had basically exhausted all of the "liquid" within the wipe which was sucked up by the thick t-shirt it seemed, and gave up.
So I just sprayed a laundry pretreater on it, and threw it in the laundry basket for later washing and called it a day. If I'd been out and about I couldn't have done this step until I got home, and he would have walked around with a big wet spot on his sleeve from the wipe!
Overall, this test didn't give me a great impression of these wipes.
Now, my Mom insists that the problem was that my son had so much sauce on his sleeve, and truthfully he did have quite a mess all over, so maybe it was just too much for a spot treater like this.
Plus, I wonder how this product would do on other fabrics that aren't thick cotton, which is what this t-shirt was made of? Perhaps another fabric or weave may have been more amenable to the treatment.
I haven't quite given up on this product yet because my Mom is so adamant about how much she loves them, but I haven't seen much of an advantage to it versus the Tide To Go pen yet either.
I would love to hear from even more people who've used this product. I know there are people that swear by them. I'd love to hear what fabrics and types of stains it has worked for you to remove, and any tips and tricks you use to make the wipes work well for you.
You can share your laundry pre treater reviews here or read others that have already been submitted, both for this and lots of other brands.
by Taylor (well really her Mom)
Just as I mentioned above, my Mom loves this product, although I was a bit disappointed by it.
When she told me this story, with yet another way she loved these little things I just had to pass it along all my readers, since she was so happily amazed by what these little wipes did.
Recently my kids went to stay with her and my Dad for several days, and once they left my Mom noticed several globs of smeared and melted chocolate on a nice upholstered kitchen chair, no doubt left by one of my little ones.
She grabbed a wipe and set to work, and guess what, it worked! The stain was completely removed.
I asked her why she didn't take a picture, and she said, "oops, I guess I should have!"
I hadn't considered the possibility that this product might work as a spot remover for upholstery, but I guess it does. You can read more upholstery cleaner reviews here, or share your own.
Further, you can read more tips for removing chocolate here.
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Hi, I'm Taylor, a busy mom with 3 kids, so I have lots of hands on experience with house cleaning, laundry and my fair share of spots, spills and other messy catastrophes. Thanks for visiting my site.
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