Experts' Experts: Impossible Stains

Jerry and his son Zach Pozniak run Jeeves New York, a luxury dry cleaning company.

In a Washington Post article they offered much useful information about their area of expertise; highlights follow.

Zach rattled off a list of what he calls "impossible stains" that just won't come out, no matter how much laundry expertise you may have.

• Permanent marker (Sharpie)

• Super glue

• Oil paint

He continued: "Anything that a team of scientists and companies have poured enormous amounts of money into ensuring is permanent. These things are designed at their core functionality to not come out of anything."

And: "If there's ever any content creator that says they can get Sharpie out of a white cotton T-shirt, I'd love to bet them a large amount of money [they can't]."

Not as intractable but still extremely difficult to remove:

• Strong dyes (red wine, beet juice)

• Cooking grease and motor oil

• Dried blood

• Rust