Its transition time in our house. The youngest daughter is in the process of packing up (again) and getting ready to move out for college (again). It is an exciting time. When you are starting graduate school, the whole world is ahead of you. She is going through all the things she has had packed away in storage for the last year to determine if they were really worth dragging half way across the country.
She ran across a pair of khaki pants that had been stained by Mr. Lou, her cat that has been gone for almost two years now. Ewwwww. Two year old cat urine! Without saying a word, she placed the pants in the laundry basket, thinking that either the wash could remove cat urine stains or she would just throw the pants away.
I can’t think of any stain worse than male cat urine, locked away for two years, staining a pair of light colored pants.
So, I knew that sodium percarbonate kicks butt on organic stains. Cat urine is most certainly organic and sodium percarbonate is the top ingredient in Molly’s Suds Oxygen Whitener. What I didn’t know is if Molly’s Suds can remove cat urine stain that has been set for so long. The only way to find out is to try it!
You get the best results from a sodium percarbonate solution when you activate it in the hottest water as possible. I took about 1 1/2 quarts of hot water out of the tap and decided it wasn’t hot enough. I popped the plastic container in the microwave and zapped it for two minutes. That was hot water! I added 1 ounce of Molly’s Suds and gave it a stir. In to the hot tub went the stained pants leg. Of course the solution went to work immediately.
The oxidation was full force with more foaming action than I had ever seen before. I allowed the pants leg to soak until all foaming had stopped (a sign that the oxidation process was complete) and the water cooled.
Eww the water looked really yellow and icky. With trepidation, I took the pants let out of the soaking solution. At first glance it looked as if the ENTIRE stain was gone COMPLETELY. Not sure, I rinsed the garment out in the kitchen sink. Yup, looks like the entire stain was removed. Like magic, Molly’s Suds had worked to remove cat urine!
Molly’s Suds had saved the day again. The old, set in stain was gone, no toxic chemicals had been used. The air was free from chemical fumes (like with chlorine bleach) and the fabric had not been damaged.
Now there are many oxygen bleach products on the market. Maybe some of them would have been up to the task of removing a set in stain like this cat urine, but I seriously doubt it. The mass distributed oxygen bleach products make generous use of fillers. Molly’s Suds Oxygen Whitener does not. It is a simple solution of sodium percarbonate and soda ash. That is why just a little goes along way.
So, the pants went through the laundry cycle and were returned to young daughter. She smiled and said “Thanks Mom”.. I say “Molly’s Suds”
Cheryl