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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Janine Israel

Choice dishes the dirt on Australia’s best and worst stain removers: ‘Price doesn’t always equal performance’

Dirty yellow stain on a white shirt
Choice pitted 30 stain remover powders and 23 pre-treater sprays against 10 common and pesky stains, including chocolate ice-cream, baby food, blood and makeup. Photograph: Halyna Romaniv/Getty Images

A consumer advocacy group has come clean on the best stain removers in Australian supermarkets, with the top-performing spray six times more expensive than the second-best performer, yet only marginally more effective.

A lab test of 30 stain remover powders and 23 pre-treater sprays by Choice pitted the products against 10 of the most common and pesky stains, including chocolate ice-cream, baby food, sweat, grass, oil, blood and makeup.

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