Tested: How to clean a shirt collar

There are so many cleaning tips on Pinterest.

It can get a little overwhelming.

I had some shirts I needed to clean and my regular bottle of Shout just wasn't doing the trick, so I thought I would try out some different techniques and see what worked.

Here are my before and afters of two collared shirts.

This light colored shirt was the first one I washed.

For this shirt I tried a tip I  had seen to use shampoo on the stain.

Just any cheap type of shampoo will work, because they said it will clean all of the dirt, sweat, etc.

I poured on the shampoo,

and scrubbed it in.

I then washed on a regular cycle. 

It still had some remnant of stains left, so I repeated the shampoo and scrubbing step and washed again, and this is the end result.

It looks pretty clean, but not good enough.

On to shirt #2.

For this shirt I wanted to try another method I had seen over at Tidy Mom.

1 part Blue Dawn dish soap

2 parts Hydrogen peroxide

She had mixed them together and put them in a spray bottle.

I didn't have one on hand, so I just mixed it in a bowl and poured it across the stain.

Lightly scrubbed it all in with an old toothbrush, and washed on a normal cycle.

Much better!

I think I am going to stick with the dish soap/hydrogen peroxide mixture for now!
Have you tried either of these methods?