Let's call this a thought experiment, shall we?

[commodorified]

1) Your life contains:

a) a corgi.

b) a sofa.

c) a wool blanket.

d) a half pound of butter.

e) some cotton underpants.

2) Via a brief and apparently largely harmless stay in the front half of the corgi, the bulk of the butter has been transferred from a plate on the table to the above.

3) You would like to remove the second-hand butter from the above items. Hot water and detergent have made no impression, nor has trying to scrape it off manually, as it just sinks into the fabric.

4) So. Now what?

Comments

[reginagiraffe]

Dawn dish detergent. It's the one they use on the crude oil-soaked seabirds. It's seriously better at removing oil-based substances than other detergents.

[girlpearl]

Regina has the right of it here--Dawn is excellent at removing grease, and we use it all the time on pyrethrin-toxicity cats. I'm sure it's fine for wool, too.

I was also told by a Kindly Italian Nonna (tm) to soak butter/oil stains from a blouse with baby powder before laundering.

[mdlbear]

Seconded -- Dawn is good stuff. I also use it as a hand soap after working on the car, handling bacon, or doing something similarly greasy.