This is a compensated review by BlogHer and OxiClean.
Update: We have a winner! Commenter #5 – Jesscia won via random draw (random.org). Thank you all for your participation! And congratulations Jessica!
My favorite clothes are new clothes. Why? On account of the fact they are so CLEAN! The whites are white and brights are bright! But a girl can’t only wear NEW clothes – nor can her children.
So what’s a girl to do? What is a MOM to do? Have you seen the things one’s offspring does to their clothes???! Some problem stains I have to deal with are:
- Preschool painting projects, chocolate pudding, chocolate milk, chocolate, dirt, markers, markers, markers, *whu?*, markers, lipstick, lip gloss, muck, grime, ketchup, mustard, lolipop-ness, poop (yes, poop), and even blood. Gotta love body fluids!
Stains are gross. They also often make me feel helpless.
Enter Oxiclean and the beloved “Power Pac”. My heart. I’m talkin’ pink puffy hearts all over for my Oxiclean. Oxiclean sent me a package of the “Power Paks” to test. *my new religion, and I am not kidding* But I didn’t need to test my pacs of awesome. Oxiclean has been a dear friend for many years. She even helped me get Sharpie – yes SHARPIE out of a jean jacket my toddler decided to “bling out”.
But the “Power Pac“… how can complete love become complete-er? PUT IT IN A PAC! Mama don’t have to scoop and pour… now Mama just pops a pac in the washer. Be it a sunrise, be it a power pac – both are beautiful to me. However a sunrise won’t get chocolate out of a 2nd grader’s white shirt. I know, what kind of mother puts her 2nd grader in a white shirt?
I do. Don’t be a hater.
Enter: the Max Force Gel Stick.
This shirt has a chocolate pudding stain. Oxiclean encourages one to immediately start treating the stain. In my world, “immediately” pans out to be 3-4 days later…
I have strategies — the Oxiclean Max Force Gel Stick, yo!
3…2…1…
*BAM!* and *HOLLAH!*
So, there is my testimony and here is the science as I understand it:
The Oxiclean Max Force Power Pac uses oxygen to fight stains… It works WITH your detergent to make whites whiter and brights brights. Oooh, bright brights – me likey! Allz ya gots to do is pop in a Pac in every load!
The Oxiclean Max Force Gel Stick… it’s a pre-treater. It’s applicator helps dig into the fibers to stick to those stains and go to battle… for the sake of the white… or the bright.
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I follow on Twitter and tweeted
http://twitter.com/willitara/status/11385914897
My biggest challenge is the “mystery” stains that seem to appear out of nowhere. It’s hard to know how to treat it when you have no idea where it came from.
I had some paint primer dry on my pants – never got it out.
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/ShesAnAngel417/status/11383834210
I blogged about the giveaway here: http://winwithjinxy.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-100-gift-card-from-oxiclean-8.html
tweet http://twitter.com/ThriftyJinxy/status/11383586335
I think food stains that are oily, like salad dressing, are the worst!
http://twitter.com/slehan/status/11383394602
blogged: http://slehan.blogspot.com/2010/03/oxyclean-100-visa-card.html
The worst stain I ever acquired was when my husband left an ink pen in his work pants and I missed it too! It exploded all over the entire load of work clothing and it took a lot of work but Oxy got it out!
justine417@comcast.net
My worst stains are rust from when I forget to take off my buttons and they go through the wash. Thanks for the contest.
The hardest stains I find to get out are ink stains! I have to constantly search my husband’s dirty clothes for pens that might get into the wash accidentally!
tweet
http://twitter.com/ccboobooy/status/11382078083
The worst stain was double knee injuries from my son. He messed both of his knees up at school, and the blood ruined his favorite jeans.
Toughest stain-mustard on a white tshirt!
Dried in diarrhea.. very gross.
My biggest laundry challenge – discovering stains before I toss the clothes in the wash. With THREE in kindergarten, there are a lot of stains happenin’ but the kids frequently forget to inform me before they toss their stuff in the hamper. :/
More than once, we’ve come home from school and I’ve seen a stain on a child’s piece of clothing and ordered them to strip immediately. LOL!
tweeted
http://twitter.com/07violet/status/11380204531
tweeted
http://twitter.com/lunaj1456/status/11371722873
oily food stains are difficult
Ink is my toughest stain; even hairspray doesn’t work.
My biggest laundry challenge is set-in stains that I wasn’t made aware of.
The toughest stains around here are the red clay we get on our ckothes.
I couldn’t find what the first entry was suppost to be so I’ll tell you what I use OXY for. We liek to go thrift store shopping, here in Los Angeles, there are a lot of vintage stores and sometimes I find a great dress but there might be staining, that where OXY comes in. Many a find has turned into a treasure thanks to OXY
singermagic1(at)yahoo(dot)com
my biggest laundry challenge is getting my husbands clothes clean from working on automobiles.
amy16323(at)gmail(dot)com
My toughest stains are the yucky clay and grass stains. It is murder getting out the cruddy clay dirt we have around here.
tweet: http://twitter.com/js22222222/status/11375515184
Southern red clay makes stains that do not come out even after pretreating.
Also, food drops on my ‘shelf’ and I end up with multiple stains on my tops- very frustrating when they don’t come out. Of course it’s usually tomatoey or greasy stains when food falls. grrrr!
Thanks for the giveaway!
blood and spaghetti stains are the worst stains I have tried to get out.
my toughest stains are food stains.
I don’t do laundry without Oxiclean “The Stain Specialist”. Awesome giveaway!
Ok so my biggest challenge is orange baby foods. Carrots are the worst! But sweet potato’s and squash STAIN EVERYTHING.
http://twitter.com/klp1965/status/11373926591
The biggest challenge for me are underarm stains from working out every day.
The worst stains are red wine stains, especially on white shirts.
Tweeted http://twitter.com/yoshidoshi
grass stains on the knees are the worst for me i can never seem to get those out
The toughest stains are from my dog whenever she jumps on me after it rains and smears mud all over my clothes.
tweeted http://twitter.com/WildOrchids09/status/11372744154
My daughter is the absolute messiest eater I have ever seen. Even at 2.5yrs she is soooooo messy we are always trying to get her stains out.
I LOVE Oxi-clean I hope it works at removing price tag adhesives from clothes!
My HS son plays football and his white football pants are my toughest stain. Sweat, dirt, grass stains, etc. all make for a challenge. Thanks.
I follow on twitter @vickiecouturier
vlbelk(at)hotmail.com
My toughest stains would have been when my son was on soyformula,eww.that stuff would NOT come out at all,but that was 35 yrs ago an things have come a long way since then
vlbelk(at)hotmail.com
I blogged
http://lunaj1456.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogher-reviewsgiveaways.html
Grass stains are some of my toughest stains. My son likes to practice sliding into base when he plays baseball.
Fresh strawberry stains are the worst!
babyfood stains seem to be the hardest to get out for me!
My husband works construction and he was working in an old water treatment plant. He came home covered in rust. It was the worst stain. I could not get it out.
Carolina clay is the absolute worst stain to try to get out!