Team suit with white straps + yellow sunscreen stains- help!

[Anonymous]

My go-to for yellow sunscreen stains from avobenzone is lemon juice and salt and leave the garment outside on a sunny day. But I’m not sure I can use lemon juice on a Lycra suit.

My DD’s competition suit is navy with white straps. What can I use on the yellow stains on the straps that won’t affect the blue? Two more meets and the suit might make it through next summer so I don’t want to give up.

[Anonymous]

My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

[Anonymous]

I agree, the kid probably does not care and I would not risk putting lemon juice, a bleach pen, or even Oci Clean on the Lycra because it will likely deteriorate the fibers.

If the swimsuit works I wouldn’t worry about the stains. My kids have stains all over their suits consisting of body paint, glitter, or whatever happen to be in the team area at the meets that’s week. They don’t mind at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

OP and that's funny because softball was my sport growing up and I cared so much about making sure my socks and pants were white! That red dust was the worst. My mom was happy when I started with the HS team because we wore black pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

Seems like something she could do.

And maybe in the process, end up caring a bit less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

Seems like something she could do.

And maybe in the process, end up caring a bit less.

plus a million!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

Seems like something she could do.

And maybe in the process, end up caring a bit less.

plus a million!

OP and DD is helping me with the suit, don't worry. And I understand why softball mom would end up scrubbing herself. Eventually kids have to go to bed or school or practice and if an adult can do one more round of scrubbing, why not? Laundry is definitely part of parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

Seems like something she could do.

And maybe in the process, end up caring a bit less.

plus a million!

OP and DD is helping me with the suit, don't worry. And I understand why softball mom would end up scrubbing herself. Eventually kids have to go to bed or school or practice and if an adult can do one more round of scrubbing, why not? Laundry is definitely part of parenting.

It certainly is but so is TEACHING your child to do the laundry. As well as TEACHING your child about reasonable expectations vis-a-vis a level of effort and the end results of said effort.

Of course, if the uniform is always MAGICALLY clean, that's what they'll want, but let them have some skin in the game so they're expectations are proportional and in alignment with reality.

Obviously, this can, and should, vary by age and level of involvement goes up as they get older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is.... your kid cares zero percent.

OP, my kid unfortunately cares very, very much.

The internet suggested trying baking soda paste in the sun, so I'm currently waiting on the results. I'll report back.

OP, I can't help because I have no experience with cleaning stains from lycra, but just want to say I have a softball player who also cares very, very much about stains and so I spend a lot of time -- a LOT of time -- on scrubbing uniforms.

Seems like something she could do.

And maybe in the process, end up caring a bit less.

plus a million!

OP and DD is helping me with the suit, don't worry. And I understand why softball mom would end up scrubbing herself. Eventually kids have to go to bed or school or practice and if an adult can do one more round of scrubbing, why not? Laundry is definitely part of parenting.

It certainly is but so is TEACHING your child to do the laundry. As well as TEACHING your child about reasonable expectations vis-a-vis a level of effort and the end results of said effort.

Of course, if the uniform is always MAGICALLY clean, that's what they'll want, but let them have some skin in the game so they're expectations are proportional and in alignment with reality.

Obviously, this can, and should, vary by age and level of involvement goes up as they get older.

Ok...that is maybe for another thread. I don't think anyone here said "I do everything for my kid and am not teaching them how to do it for themselves." Moving on:

Just baking soda paste in the sun didn't work. It toned the yellow down but it's still a vibrant stain. I'm going to risk lemon juice and salt for the afternoon shift and will report back one more time.

[Anonymous]

Update: success!

I saturated the stained areas with lemon juice + rubbed salt on top of the lemon juice and laid the suit in the sun for 3 hours then rinsed out= stains are gone, suit looks like new, no damage.