Grease and Grease Stains

If you love tinkering with your car, restoring older vehicles, greasing up your bicycle chain for smooth gear shifting, or messing around with any other machines, tools and motors –or if this is something you do for a living —then you know how hard it can be to remove grease from your fingernails, your clothes, your tools, or anything else it’s gotten on.

Kitchen and cooking grease presents its own special stain removal challenges, but they’re nothing compared to trying to get machine grease off your clothes or other surfaces or materials.

Most of what we call machine or automotive “grease” is a petroleum-derivative, water-resistant substance thicker than machine oil (which is the liquid form) used for lubricating parts. Normally, this requires strong solvents or high alkaline type cleaners for clean up or removal.

Removing Grease From Clothing

TIP: You may be tempted to toss grease-stained clothes right into the washer…but don’t do it! Don’t do it! Regular detergent –even concentrated stain-removing detergent —is not fully effective at cleaning tough grease. Once the clothing has been washed and dried, you “set” the stain and make it that much harder to remove. Remove the grease and grease stains before you wash if you really want them to come out clean and stain-free.

What’s the trick to successful removal? Find a cleaner with a solvent that “dissolves” the grease and then proceed to cleaning. Goof Off^® Heavy Duty Spot Remover & Degreaser will dissolve machine grease just like turpentine ’dissolves’ oil-based paint and removes it from a paint brush. Goof Off^®’s powerful formula will penetrate and break up the greasy stains, quickly and efficiently. Then, when you launder your clothes, they will come out stain free. Of course it’s a good idea to test an inconspicuous area first to make sure the material is colorfast.

Removing Automotive or Machine Grease from Other Materials

TIP: Be careful with high alkaline cleaners when trying to remove grease –they can damage many surfaces, particularly carpet! Goof Off^® Heavy Duty Spot Remover & Degreaser will dissolve and remove grease from a number of surfaces, substances and materials such as your car, flooring, upholstery and even carpet, without harming the underlying surface, when used as directed. It will get grease off your car, truck, motorcycle, SUV, RV or boat without harming the paint job, and it will safely remove motor oil, or lubricants and hydraulic fluid too.

Goof Off^® Heavy Duty Spot Remover & Degreaser is the all-in-one spot, stain and soil remover to keep on the job, or in your garage, workshop or basement.