Stain Removal

The other night I was preparing my lunches for the week and talking to my friend Susheela on the phone. I was putting my favorite Greek dressing on my salad and squeezed the bottle too hard and spilled Greek dressing EVERYWHERE - all over the counter, all over me and my nightshirt, on my slippers, on the floor. Since the dressing is olive oil based, I didn’t think it would come out of my nightshirt. I let it soak in dish soapy water overnight. After hang drying, the stain remained. (On a side note, I noticed during my last weekend of laundry that one of the knit shirts I wear to work had a grease stain that didn’t come out in the wash and my favorite khaki cords also had an odd stain. Both stained items had gone through the dryer.)
Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to wash the three items (knit shirt, cords, night shirt) using dish soap instead of laundry detergent. I pretreated all the stains with Palmolive and then dumped them in the washer with more Palmolive. It took an extra 3 or 4 rinse cycles to get out all the suds but after hang drying them, THE GREASE STAINS ARE GONE! I’m so pleased!