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8 Difficult Stains and Easy Ways To Remove Them.

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Like most people, I hate getting my clothes stained.

List on how to remove them.

  1. Blood. This, for me, is the easiest stain to remove. Whether fresh or dried, I just pour hydrogen peroxide on the affected area, wipe the bubbles away and with it, the blood stains.
  2. Candle wax. This stain, I seldom meet, but when I do, I simply sandwich the stained fabric between two pieces of paper towel, and press with a hot iron. The hot iron will melt the wax, and the paper towels will absorb them.
  3. Chocolate. The fastest way to remove chocolate stains is with a tiny amount of chlorine bleach. Just pour some bleach into the cap, dip a ballpen end into the bleach, touch the wet end on the stain and wait a minute. For larger stains, I dip an old toothbrush into the bleach instead of a pen, and brush the stain lightly.
  4. Grass. Like blood, hydrogen peroxide works well with grass stains. Just pour, let it froth, and wipe away.
  5. Grease. I used to think grease stains are permanent until my husband took them out by washing alternately with gasoline and pure dishwashing liquid!
  6. Ink. This one, I really hate. If you catch an ink stain soon enough, rubbing alcohol usually does the trick. Acetone or nail polish remover is good too. If it’s a bit late, try rubbing it with glycerin. If all else fails, just keep wearing the garment, and the stain will fade in time!
  7. Ketchup/Tomato Sauce. My son loves ketchup, so I meet this often. Like chocolate, ketchup is no match for a chlorine bleach. If you are removing stains from a colored shirt, though, wet the shirt first and keep careful watch to make sure the color doesn’t disappear with the stain. Rinse the bleach off as soon as the stain is gone.
  8. Mold. Gross, I know, but there they are. To remove mold stains, I use pure chlorine bleach too. Not only does it remove the stains, it also kills the mold and lessens the risk that my kids will get asthma.




Addendum: Here’s a strange way to remove stains that my Grandma taught me: She leaves the stained clothes out in the rain! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. All I know is that it gets some stains out without any effort from me. I thought I’d share that with you too!

Autor: Beatrice Adams.
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One Response to “8 Difficult Stains and Easy Ways To Remove Them.”
26 September, 2007, 12:16 pm

Herman D. HugeLoad :


I can thoroughly recommend “Shout” as an all around stain remover. It’s also nondestructive.
Chlorine bleach is not well tolerated by many fabrics, ditto gasoline [shudder].
Hydrogen Peroxide is OK, but if you have a woolen sweater, odd things happen when you use H2O2 to attack stains. Sometimes you get away with it, other times the colors in the wool fade in the area where the peroxide was applied. It is - after all - quite a powerful oxidizing agent. Paper is bleached using Hydrogen Peroxide (OK, admittedly at a much stronger concentration than the product typically available on drugstore shelves)

When stains come to visit, our friend is “Shout”.

Even my four year old - who is a prodigious stain maker herself - knows that “Daddy is shouting at the laundry again”. Just as a funny aside, when she gets upset because she’s spilled [...] on a favorite sweater, I calm her down by telling her that it’s OK, I’ll get the stain out by shouting at it. She gives me the sweater, I retreat to the laundry room and yell “GET OUT - GET OUT - GET OUT” a few times rather dramatically. Then I come back and tell her that - after washing, the stain will be gone.

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