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Lily Pollen Stain removal

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Submitted by Honey on Mon, 06/21/2004 - 8:55am

I bought myself a pale blue new summer coat a couple of weeks ago. Then I wore it while arranging flowers and managed to get bright orange lily pollen on it in several places. Any suggestions? Help!

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Problem solved!

Honey's picture
Submitted by Honey on Fri, 06/25/2004 - 8:04am.

I searched online and found some advice, which I followed, and it worked Smiling

First I used sellotape to lift off all the pollen. It took quite a while to really get off all the loose pollen, leaving just a yellow stain. On the web, the advice I saw was to then hang the item in the sun to bleach the stain away. However, this is England, so I decided not to wait for the sun!

Instead, I used a bar of stain removing soap (here in the UK, it's called Vanish), lathering it up and rubbing on the stain, leaving for a while, then rinsing and repeating. I did this three or four times until the stain had noticeably faded quite a bit, then washed the coat in the washing machine as per the label. The stain has completely gone Smiling

Pollen stain

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Submitted by Nell Hartley (not verified) on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 9:48am.

THANK YOU. While talking on the phone in my office, I was discarding a few fallen leaves from some beautiful star lillies that a male student had brought .....When I looked down it looked like I had been spattered with blood.
Your trick worked miracles....I'm in awe.
Incidentally, I loved attending the Chelsea flower show a few years ago. Your lillies are gorgeous!!!

Lillie Pollen Removal

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Submitted by Yvonne (not verified) on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 4:49am.

Please help - I need to remove th yellow/orange stain from new cream leather chairs !! I have tried all cleaners. Please help

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Submitted by Betty10 (not verified) on Sun, 08/16/2009 - 2:03am.

Hi, saw your comment. I have the same problem yelllow pollen stain on cream couch. Did you manage to remove it???

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