Customer Reviews

The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal

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I have been so impressed with this little book that I originally found at my grocery store in the book section that I am online to buy some for friends and family as they all keep hounding me on how it was again that I got out "that" particular stain or "this" particular stain. I have gotten dried on chocolate stains out of childrens clothing and a whole bottle of hersheys syrup out of beige carpeting with her all purpose spotter. If you have kids - GET THIS BOOK! (a permanent fixture in my laundry room)

I decided that I'd like to buy a guide to stains for the laundry room. I started by checking out some books at the library. I wanted to see some stain books in person, to make my decision.

Stain Rescue! The A to Z Guide, by Good Housekeeping was not my choice. Too many of the entries told me to simply, "use a commercial stain remover." Well, I could have guessed that. I wanted specific advice for each type of stain. This book said to treat all laundry stains the same way, with a commercial stain remover, and only gave specific advice if the stain is on carpet, upholstery, etc. Not for me.

The Field Guide to Stains DID have specific advice, but was also a little too "fluffy" for me. The little bits of humor -- there were simply too many of them for my taste -- seemed to get in the way of the great information. There was a section of color photos showing what stains look like, but I think I can usually tell what the stain is by looking. That might be very helpful to some.

I continued to seek my stain guide. Next, I checked out the little paperback Queen of Clean book. It was published in 2002. There was specific advice for each type of stain. I was also pleased to read about the many common household items can be used to treat stains. And there is a section about commercial cleaning products. The Queen recommends her favorites -- and she's "tried them all." There were specific recommendations about each.

There is also a section that gives a heirarchy of stain removal when the stain is unknown, or set in with age. You start with the most gentle cleaning methods, then gradually work your way up to things that are more and more effective, but also irreversible and risky. That way, you might get the stain out with less trouble and less damage to the garment before you have to use the more drastic methods.

The Queen also warns in many places that some stain removers might remove the dye from some garments. The advice is to test on a seam allowance or other inconspicuous place. How many times have I removed the dye, along with the stain, by using a commercial cleaning product? That's why I wanted specific advice and gentle stain removal.

Well, all that sounded good to me! I decided that this will be the stain guide I keep in my laundry room. I came to Amazon, and found out that there's a 2010 edition. That's even better. I'm gettin' it right away!

This product is a must for all moms i have had this book for many years, and i recently purchased it for a friend who has kids and is always asking my advice on how to remove this stain, or clean this or that. majority of my answers come from this book. she said it was a great mothers day gift.

This book has been a tremendous help to me and my family, I bought it many, many years ago, when our kids were little, we have 4 and with my wife & I, we had a lot of clothes to wash and all 4 kids were into sports as I was, so we had plenty of dirty clothes with a lot of spots to get out, some things I could just never get completely clean and many spots would never come out.

After reading this book and she has another excellent one I purchased, I learned more than I thought possible on the subject of cleaning and spot removal, I now have a full and complete cleaning section on my laundry room shelf, not only for clothes but also for the house.

I learned how to remove any type of spot on clothing, no stain was too tough, she has done an excellent job on this book, I looked up many of her ideas on cleaning around the internet and most good cleaning guides include most of her choices for removing spots & stains, if you have kids or just have spots and stains on occasion, get this book, it's very informative and interesting reading, and you will use it, I printed out all her info on cleaning and removing various spots and stains and laminated them and keep them in my laundry room for reference.

After being amazed with what I saw Linda Cobb do on Oprah, I purchased her "Spot and Stain Removal" guide and have been extremely pleased with her suggestions that have worked tremendously for me. Would highly recommend it.

So small and compact. Great reference book!

So small and compact. Great reference book!

This is a great reference book. Always there and its so compact. It helps me get my familys tough stains out too@

Compared to the other books I received in this order, this one was very small with yellowed pulp type pages. The book's content may still be fine but the book itself looks very dated.