Shout Advanced Laundry Stain Treatment

I deal with stains a lot: an awful lot. Specifically, the mud and dirt and grass stains that result from baseball uniforms encountering such substances, usually with significant force to ensure the materials are firmly ground into the fabric. I have two laundry stain aids - one commercial and one old-fashioned and homemade - that I utilize and have found to be effective, either separately or combined, for truly nasty stains.

Unfortunately during a travel game, I did not have access to these products and chose to use Shout with both a soak and my usual detergent. It cost the same or a little more than my usual commercial brand. I was, however, more than markedly unimpressed by the results. I can kindly categorize the results as just a little more than what I might have accomplished by just washing the uniform with my usual detergent. I might have just used tap water to "treat" the stains for all the effectiveness Shout accomplished. It was at this point that I recalled abandoning Shout in the first place because of its relative ineffectiveness when my preferred product came along. I had hoped that they had remanufactured Shout or made it stronger in the meantime. I was wrong. Same old stuff. Same results. The coda to this story? Because of the upcoming game, I was forced to dry the uniform, still stained, for its use in the tournament. After we arrived home, I took the same uniform and treated it with my usual products. Despite having been physically ground into the fabric and then dryer "dried" into the fabric, the stains were completely eliminated and could not even be located on the uniform.

I'll avoid Shout in the future. The product I mean. I'll probably continue the activity itself for years.