Banish yellow armpit stains from white clothes using ‘brilliant’ hack – it’s not bleach

The balmy days of summer can prove to be a real nightmare for our clothes, especially when it comes with the unwanted bonus of stubborn stains in the underarm areas of our favourite tees.

Add to this any penchant for self-tan application, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for disaster that seems beyond the help of countless laundry cycles.

The only resolution appearing to be bidding adieu to our once-cherished garments – but don’t rush to bin those tops just yet.

There’s apparently no need to fritter away hard-earned cash, as a ‘brilliant’ solution exists to tackle these obstinate marks.

Renowned cleaning guru and best-selling author Laura de Barra has recently divulged her secret in a TikTok tutorial, which has won over the internet amassing an impressive 720.8k views to date.

The cherry on top is that one can accomplish this task without splashing out on expensive stain removers. All it takes is three common kitchen staples likely to be found in any household pantry, reports the Daily Record.

Flaunting a white T-shirt marred by underarm discolouration, Laura quips: “Are the pits of your t-shirts like this? Don’t throw it out, let’s sort it out.”

She goes on to suggest utilising what she calls the ‘holy trinity’ of cleaning elixirswashing up liquid, baking soda, and 5% distilled white vinegarto restore your whites to their former glory.

To kick things off, turn your stained T-shirt inside out and fill a bowl with cold water steer clear of hot water as it might further ingrain the stain. Apply some dish soap directly onto the stain and manually work it in to produce some suds.

Then, remove the washing up liquid by rinsing the shirt under running water. Prepare a solution with twice as much water as vinegar, submerge the armpits of the shirt in the mixture, and let it soak for about an hour.

After soaking, rinse the shirt again. Now, get ready to use baking soda; mix it with water until it reaches a paste-like consistency akin to a ‘face mask’, then apply this mixture generously over the stains.

Cleaning aficionado Laura states: “Bicarb is brilliant for stain removal as it literally draws [it] off. So the worse the stain, the longer you leave it.”

She recommends leaving the paste on the stain for up to 90 minutes. Afterward, immerse the T-shirt in the earlier vinegar solution and enjoy the ‘wonderful fizzing reaction’ that effectively loosens any remaining debris within the fibres without causing harm.

Should any stubborn stains persist, repeat the process. However, Laura found a marked improvement with no trace of stains upon rinsing it again under the tap.

The final step is to machine wash the garment as usual, resulting in t-shirts that look as good as new.