How can I get cooking oil out of a cotton polo shirt?

[beer]

I have a JCrew pique polo (dark green) that has two oil stains, about dime-sized or smaller, from a mishap with cooking oil.

I must not have noticed it when it happened because I ran it through the washer/dryer before I noticed it.

Now, I've been able to remove oil stains before by scrubbing and soaking the shirt in Dawn (or some other dish liquid) before running it through the wash. This has done the trick before, even after it's been through the dryer before...

The downside is that my house's washing machine is broken, and our landlord has yet to fix it, so I would have to do this at a laundromat. Right now I just use a wash-and-fold service for my weekly laundry but I can't make special requests.

It would be easiest if someone could confirm that I can pay a few bucks to have the shirt dry cleaned and get the oil out. If I have to do it by myself it's going to take a lot more time, and there's the iterative trial/error process, which is very time consuming.

Can anyone help?
Thanks

 

[beer]

help me

 

[Crono]

Dry cleaners may be able to do it, but it helps to ask them first.
Here's an article that probably is of no value to you: http://home.howstuffworks.com/...auto-grease-stains.htm

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Crono
Dry cleaners may be able to do it, but it helps to ask them first.
Here's an article that probably is of no value to you: http://home.howstuffworks.com/...auto-grease-stains.htm

Asking your local dry cleaners for advice is free as Crono pointed out beer, give it a try and let us know your result.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Enzyme pre-soaks are your friend. Yes, they still work after you've washed the shirt. Dry clean a polo shirt? Send all that extra money to me and I'll email you every day telling you how wise, wonderful and, good looking you are.

 

[gsellis]

Goop or GoJo hand cleaner may be your friend here. Rub it in, let is sit a bit, then wash.

 

[sjwaste]

not everything you take to the cleaners is necessarily dry cleaned. for instance, dress shirts are usually laundered. bring it in show them the stain and see what they say. they can probably pretreat and launder it to get it out. my cleaners does if you point out the stain and tell them what it is, as that determines what they use to pretreat it.

 

[spittledip]

Just dip the whole thing in cooking oil and that will take care of the problem.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: spittledip
Just dip the whole thing in cooking oil and that will take care of the problem.

that's quite an effective way to restore those faded colors, too

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Why not soak the shirt in dawn or Palmolive and then take a load to the laundrymat? That's what I do. Works fine.