How To Easily Remove Oil From Fabrics/Clothing

**ATTENTION: Brushing too hard on colored fabrics, or using a brush that's not soft, can create a faded spot on the colored fabric. Blotting more instead of brushing, can help prevent that. Mineral spirits & liquid dish washing detergent will not damage colored fabrics(based on my tests). You can also use "Non-Chlorinated" Brake Parts Cleaner to remove oil from clothing!

After frantically scouring the entire internet and multiple forums, I can confidently say this is THE BEST method for getting out used motor oil from tennis shoes! I accidentally got a huge spot on the tip of my bright white shoes and thought I would never be able to wear them again. SO THANKFUL I FOUND YOUR VIDEO because this method worked perfectly & I will now recommend it to everyone I know! Side note: I did also mix a small amount of Baking Soda into the Dawn Dish Soap when scrubbing my shoe with hot water & that seemed to also help brighten up the white material after the stain was completely removed.

Brilliant 👏 I had tracksuit with big oil stain on the pants after total loss car accident, I kept trying with all possible ways with no result until I watched this.. Now I'm wearing it again after 4 years like new 🙌 At least something has been saved 😁

I accidentally knelt in a lot of dirty black engine oil on my good jeans. After trying several methods to no avail, I tried this as demonstrated and it really worked!! I no longer have oils stains and my jeans look great again!

Worked perfectly for me, even on a shirt I’d tried several other things with including washing and drying afterward. Woo Hoo!

This guy is the real deal, he really knows what are you doing

Finally something that actually works. Thanks. I stained my gym bag the first time I used it! Gonna get some thinner now!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on removing oil from fabrics,Blessings always

Great video! I can't argue with your results, which were of course spectacular, however... I've been using automotive hand cleaner, GoJo and the like for over 30 years for removing grease and oil stains from clothing of all types with seemingly equal results to your method. I can't say for absolute certain that hand cleaner works as well on whites, since I honestly don't wear whites while working with oils, grease, postal cancellation grade inks, etc, but I can honestly say that with colors, I have never failed to remove such stains, nor have any affected articles of clothing suffered discoloration. The key to success with the automotive hand cleaner is to catch and treat such stains before they enter the wash. If an article of clothing makes it through the wash still stained, finding its way in to the dryer, it's pretty much done. With the hand cleaner, I simply rub a generous amount into the stain from both sides of the material and let it sit for a day. I throw the article of clothing in with the wash the next day. The time it takes to treat stained clothing depends on the damage. A stain such as you demonstrated takes less than a minute of rubbing in hand cleaner. Heavily oil soaked Jeans, on the other hand, may take up to 20 minutes. I don't think there are enough hours in the day to make this mineral spirits method of cleaning worthwhile on a heavily oil soaked pair of jeans. I am almost tempted to stain a white T-shirt with used motor oil, then treat with hand cleaner and throw it in the wash the next day, but since I always use bleach on whites, I would expect good results all the same. If anybody has tried it on whites and had other than good results, I'd like to know. I like that you show an alternative method to those products designed specifically for cleaning laundry stains because to honest, not one of those products that my wife has ever tried actually works. Finally she quit buying them. She knows I have a GoJo dispenser in the basement shop area, just around the corner from the laundry area. :) Steve

Hello, could you tell me the brand or the name of mineral spirit/ paint thinner you used in the video? I search it and many results about thinner for acrylic paint show up, but I don't know if they're the right one.

Thank you so much... I have been struggling 😩... with one of my fav. Light color 👗... now the greas stain got removed by ur remedy.. 😊

Amazing!! I'm going to try it on my white dress that got car grease on the hem :-( Here's hoping it works for me. The stain is a few days old....will that affect the results?

Thank you, although this isn’t the easiest method I’ve seen it really gets the job done. 👍🏽

What I was looking for exactly. Thanks bro for this video

Thank you. My husband is an automobile mechanic. Need I say more?

So if I was in the automotive industry, always messing with oil/grease what's the best clothing material avoid stain or at least less hassle later to clean?

This video was a lifesaver, thank you.

Great ideas, well demonstrated. Much appreciated, Thank You.

My wife usually complains of stains in my shorts....now I can tell her its because I sat in a spot of crude oil then make her watch this video before she does my laundry. Thank you so much! Dill, a subscriber.

Wow. It's effective! Thank you so much!