Home Cleaning Homemade Shout

Homemade Shout

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September 27, 2022
Carole JonesJump to Recipe

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Homemade stain remover that comes together in just a few minutes and works even better than the Shout you buy in the store. I save a ton of money making my own laundry detergent and DIY stain remover. This stuff is safe for your HE machines as well! You will want to thank me. I promise 🙂

This is what my kitchen looks like. Can you even call that a kitchen? My mantra right now that I continually repeat in my head is, “It will be amazing when it is done. It will be amazing when it is done….”

I could blabber on for pages on the struggles of cooking for my family right now, but I’ll just smile and be honest with you.

Since little to no cooking is coming out of my kitchen right now, I thought it was a perfect time to post my next laundry recipe: my homemade stain remover. Yep, I use it and love it! And again, I just use my old Shout bottle to store it in.

I’ve posted many cooking and baking recipes over the years which resulted in messages saying how much you love them. Should I be offended though that all of those emails pale in comparison to the response I got about the homemade laundry detergent recipe? I’m confident this homemade stain remover recipe will follow the same pattern. It is fab!

This is a baking/cooking blog after all! I guess I should just be happy that you are trying stuff out, even if you can’t eat your results.

Homemade Stain Remover

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Use this recipe for your DIY stain remover and be shocked at how it works better than the store bought version!

Ingredients

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2/3 C Dawn dish detergent
2/3 C ammonia
6 Tb baking soda
2 C warm water

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Instructions

Mix together all the ingredients in a medium bowl. Using a funnel, pour into an old Shout bottle or other spray bottle.
To use, shake the bottle well because the baking soda does settle to the bottom. Spray as you normally would on a stain then launder. Do not use on anything that will be washed with chlorine bleach due to the ammonia!

Author: Carole Jones

Carole Jones

Carole Jones is an Arizona-based cookbook author & food blogger. She's authored The 30 Minute Cooking From Frozen Cookbook and the self-published Take 5: Chicken e-cookbook. For the past 15 years, Carole has shared her culinary adventures cooking and baking for her six brutally honest children here on My Kitchen Escapades. Hot, crusty bread is Carole's love language, but her two adorable grandchildren are a close second. Yes, second. Don't judge.

92 comments

I use liquid castile soap with this and I find it works better than Dawn. Especially on the “Mechanic grease” stains. Also on “Forgotten” coffee stains.

How long will this keep?

Amy-indefinitely! I make a huge batch which lasts me about a year.

I use to work in a grocery store and even though our tops were white you couldn’t bleach out the normal wearing stains. I ended up trying Shout to keep these shirts clean. Since then its been the only thing to pull stains right out. Even from the cuff of my favorite hoody, without destroying the colour or fabric. So you can see I’ve become addicted to the stuff, but it is quite expensive and only comes in a little bottle (in my town). I’m excited to try to make my own and add it to my recipe box of home made things!

Hi, I’d really love to try this but with a front loading washer I already know what’s going to happen. 🙁 The dish detergent will cause too many suds & the machine will stop with SUDS on the screen. I have this happen when there is too much soap left in the dish cloth from the kitchen sink that is put in the laundry. Is there an alternative for the Dawn for making this when you have a washer requiring HE products?

Tammy: You must have one smart HE machine! I have an HE machine as well and no problems.

Hi.
I made your recipe. First the ammonia smells so strong; my eyes water. I want to know if it’s probably because of a different dishwash liquid I may have used. Or maybe 2/3 cups of liquid ammonia is a lot! !
Kindly enlighten!

Hetal- ammonia does have a very strong odor. I only use dawn dish washing liquid so I am not sure about the ingredients of other brands. The amount is perfect for the ammonia!

What about using lemon juice instead of ammonia? I have heard it done in other ‘diy’ laundry things. Wonder if it would work here?

Thanks for the info-I go through Shout like crazy. Does anyone know if you can pretreat and leave it or should it be washed soon after? Shout states up to 7 days. Thanks