Spill mustard on your shirt? Here are our easy-to-follow tips to remove mustard stains from your favorite cotton clothes

What you need to treat yellow mustard stains:

Butter knife or spoon

Pretreatment

Steps:

1 . Remove excess: Scrape off excess mustard gently with a spoon, without pushing the mustard deeper into the fabric.

2. Dilute: Flush garment under cold running water to dilute the stain.

3. Treat with detergent: Treat the stain gently with a pretreatment stain remover.

4. Launder: Wash the garment using hot water and bleach (if both are safe for the fabric). Read the care instructions to make sure.