If you have a white T-shirt, you probably know this: sweat stains are almost unavoidable. You wear it just one time, and it's already going into the laundry basket. Then later you pull it out with a slight yellow ring under the arms that just won’t come out. Turns out, there’s a laundry hack that’s been quietly making the rounds online for years: dissolve aspirin tablets in water and soak your clothes in it. McGill University's Office for Science and Society says the trick is so popular that people have debated whether it really works or if it is just laundry room folklore.
Here is what is really going on, why those yellow marks show up, and whether that bottle in your medicine cabinet deserves a spot next to your detergent.
