Dawn for dishes. Spot treat each stain--toss it into the laundry. If you have a FL you may need to cut back on the detergent to prevent over sudsing--depends on how badly splattered the shirt is. Line dry after washing. May take more than one attempt...but I've had great success with the above treatment for all sorts of oil-based stains.

Dawn is what the wildlife rescuers used to clean up the seabirds and seamammals after the Valdez spill. It's an amazing surfactant.

Try dawn first, that's what we use. If that doesn't work, try shampoo for oily hair!

Thank you both! I'll give it a try. If the Dawn doesn't work, I'll try the shampoo, compumom.

S

Try rubbing on cornstarch. It absorbs oil.

The Dawn worked! Yay! My shirt is saved.

ebear, I'll keep the cornstarch in mind the next time I have a fresh oil stain (and I know there will be a next time!). I bet that would help reduce what I had to work with.