Manuka honey on a bedsheet:

To remove Manuka honey from a sheet, scrape off any excess honey, then rinse the stain under cold running water, pre-treat with a stain remover (your Dawn should work here), and wash the sheet in the hottest water safe for the fabric, using the appropriate type of bleach if needed; always check the care label before using bleach on your sheets. On sheets other than white I would use Oxy.

Shibari is water not oil based. Removing it shouldn't be a problem. Why don't you rub a bit of the Dawn into that area just as a precaution then follow above directions to wash in the hottest appropriate water.

I'm not sure how you judge that at a laundromat, it's a shame you don't have your own machines. My hot water tanks (2) are set hotter than the recommended 125F and when I put a load in hot (like white towels) I know the water is hot. It's been so long since I've used a public machine I don't know when set to 'hot' how hot it really might be. If there is an attendant at that laundromat you might ask.

I don't think soaking in a bucket is necessary. If these sheets are new, cotton, and you are washing in very hot water you might be prepared for a bit of shrinkage but if you've washed and dried them previously that has probably taken place in the dryer already.

I’ve never had a problem just squirting a bit of the blue dawn dish liquid straight onto stains and throwing them in my hamper for a bit, then wash like usual. It gets out almost any stain, even f I accidentally washed and ran it through the dryer before I noticed the stain.

Honey and lubricant on a bed sheet.

What is up with you with all of these laundry dilemmas. You post one every 2 months. Pretty sad!

What's taking place on the sheets is really none of our business. Maybe the OP's mother did laundry like my own....terrible. She would toss all from lingerie to little boys jeans, tennis shoes, sheets, face towels in the same load and call it good.

When first married I did bookkeeping for an appliance store that had its very own Maytag Man. He taught me, as well as all the younger women working there, correct laundry procedures. I was so grateful, and....I'm rather good at laundry 😊 I did not learn it at home.

I wasn't there the day Mom did laundry at my brothers for his wife. She put the white Ralph Lauren towels in with the red Ralph Lauren towels....main bath was black and white with red accents. Of course the towels bled all over each other and the white towels were pink and ruined. She couldn't imagine how that had taken place, because 'towels never fade'. Ummm, Yes, Mom, they do.

So just pour a tiny bit of dawn dish soap on it and that is all? Did you even scrub it a bit? The thing is I don't want to bring the dial dish soap with me to the laundromat. Could I just pour some in the apartment first and then just put it in trash bag and that is all?

Now if I was to rub it, I should use some water with it right?

The thing is I use FOCA powder detergent for it at the laundromat. So should I pour some dawn dish soap on it as well?

What do you mean throwing it in the hamper? So you scrub it first? I am confused with that.

I mean, usually I literally just squirt some dawn on the stain, no water, no scrubbing, and I ball up the item and throw it in the hamper for a day or so, and then wash like normal. (I like to let the dawn dish soap sit on the stain for a while.) I do keep a toothbrush in my laundry room for scrubbing items as needed, so if you want to scrub it before you ball it up go ahead. Usually the stains I treat are small, so just a tiny squirt is all that is needed. Now, if the stain were more like a large puddle, I wouldn’t want to squirt THAT much dawn on the stain because it would likely make too many suds in my machine. In that case, I’d probably use dawn, water, and a toothbrush to scrub it in and make the dawn spread out more, maybe even making a paste with baking soda or oxyclean or something. Then I’d wash and dry like normal, and if bits of the stain are still there, I’d repeat the process as needed.