The Faultless Starch?

I recently happened upon a new product at the grocery and bought it with enthusiasm: Faultless Spray Starch with Stain Resistance featuring Scotchguard.

The reviews are in, folks, and they are mixed.

The good news. It's effective.

DH and I were headed to a downtown Friday night festival and he asked if I would iron his new linen button-up shirt. The kind that you don't tuck in. It does not have embroidery up each side, but a teeny bit of hemstitching. It's tan and very pretty.

So I ironed it, being sure to use this product. DH has been known to spill his dinner onto his shirt.

Being in a rush, I prepared frozen calzones for DH, LO, her gf, and the sweet neighbor boy who has begun hanging around. I warmed a bit of spaghetti sauce from a jar and called it marinara sauce.

They ate and I zoomed around, ironing my own clothes and getting ready.

Finally all 5 of us were ready to go. I approached DH from down the hall and saw it: a huge glob of marinara on the round of his belly. "Oh, no," I said. "What? What?" he said. "Change shirts," I replied. Sheepishly he did so and I grabbed the Shout wipes from the Drawer of Everything in the kitchen. My goal was not to remove the stain so he could wear the shirt; my goal was to remove it and save the shirt. I was afraid the stain might be permanent if I did not.

Assiduously I scrubbed the stain with the tiny white square and left the shirt out to dry as we raced off downtown.

We returned 3 hours later to a clean shirt. I give some of the credit to the spray starch with Scotchguard. (Most of the credit to Shout wipes.)

The bad news. White flakes from hell.

If you have ever used spray starch and had white flakes, you know what I mean. This particular starch doesn't flake, it just leaves white "tracks" where the iron was applied. A pocket inside your bermuda shorts? A white imprint shows its exact location. A crease in the lining? Shows through clearly via the white impression on your clothing.

I just ironed a pair of black shorts, probably the worst candidate of all, and then spent 20 minutes scraping them on the ironing board with my little brown scraper from Pampered Chef. My DILs will know the scraper I'm referring to: I have given them zillions of the things. I love em.

So in conclusion, I will use up the can of starch I purchased but will likely not purchase it again. AND I won't iron black clothing with it again.

I've just got to share the cheesy photo from their website; it's too good not to share.

Look how happy she is to be ironing. Hmm...