Removing stains on clothes

In modern industry, there is a huge amount of stain removers, to remove stains at home. But there are also proven for years, and maybe even centuries, folk remedies for removing stains from clothes.

Removal of stains on clothing begins with the fact that you first need to understand the composition of the fabric, so as not to spoil it. For acetate silk, you can not use acid and acetone, they will dissolve this tissue; synthetic fabrics can be spoiled with solvents (gasoline, benzene, etc.), Alkali is not used when cleaning wool and natural silk. And cotton fabrics do not like, when to them apply cleaning with the help of strong acids. To remove rust and paints, oxalic acid is used, after removing stains, the fabric should be well spread.

Grease stains produce cleaned gasoline, turpentine, or make a mixture of them, in equal parts. After that, the product should be hung on a hanger, or spread on a table and thoroughly cleaned with a brush soaked in soapy water. Just remember that when cleaning with a soapy solution, you can not wet the lining of the suit, or another product. After cleaning, hang out the suit or other product in a cool place, after all has dried, iron through a rag.

If you suddenly dirty your favorite dress with fat, when you used chicken in a restaurant, do not despair. When you come home, take chalk or talc, of course, if you have a toothpaste "somewhere", you better apply it. Sprinkle the stain, press it hard against the fabric and leave it overnight. In the morning wake up, shake off the chalk from the dress, gently brush the place where yesterday this horrible stain was, and you will see the result immediately, or rather you will not see, because there are no stains at this place already. And if suddenly you do not have time to wait, and the dress must be quickly put in order, sprinkling a stain with chalk, talc or tooth powder, put paper and iron this place, and the stain will also quickly come down.

With a light fabric, you can remove the fat stain with a mixture of gasoline with dry chalk powder. Spread the paste thickly on the stain, leave for a few hours, then remove the paste with a brush. If it did not work the first time, repeat the procedure for combating the stain until it is completely destroyed.

Cotton and linen fabrics of light shades will save ammonia from the stains (1 tsp per glass of water), then rinse everything off with water.

If the stain has not yet dried, then it can be simply ironed using blotting paper.

Wine and beer spots . These spots can often appear on our clothes, they can simply be cleaned with alcohol and water, or you can simply wipe with vodka. You can also remove such stains with the help of warm milk, after which clothes are washed first in cold water, then in hot water.

Stains from beer can be removed with soap and washing soda (2: 1) in a small amount of water.

Stains from red wine should be sprinkled immediately with salt, and then removed with water. On colored fabrics, you must moisten the stain with glycerin, leave for a couple of hours, and then rinse with warm water.

Stains from sweet liquor, first washed with water, and then with citric acid.

Stains from red and blue cabbage, red beets are deduced by 5% ammonia solution.

When you remove such stains from white things, first place something under the cloth and moisten it, tapping with a swab dipped in the solution, and then rinse thoroughly and dry with a towel until all stains are transferred to the substrate that you put under the fabric.

White woolen fabrics, except for such processing, the stain is still rubbed with 2% ammonia solution, and then rinsed.

Color natural and artificial silk, nylon, nylon, processed neatly with a pipette, then also gently washed with a sponge. Then it is dried with a towel.

Spots from red tomatoes just wipe with a green tomato stain, rinse several times with soft water, then dry it and apply talcum on the stain, shaking off you will see immediately the result.

Spot from sweet liquids, and also from dirt and rain. If it's suede or velor, then just wipe with warm water. Strong spots will be cleared by an ordinary eraser.

Spots from cocoa, coffee and tea, remove with glycerin, then rinse in warm water, rinse with ammonia spirit half diluted with water.

Stains from coffee, chocolate, rinse with salt water. With woolen cloth, stains from coffee are removed with glycerin and washed off with water, after which the fabric is ironed from the wrong side with an iron.

If in the morning you drank cocoa and accidentally put a stain on the dress, then you can stretch the dress over the basin and pour warm water onto the stain until it disappears completely, then iron this place and the dress is ready for use.

Stains from blood calmly removed when washing, beforehand, just wash this stain in ice water.

With light cotton fabrics, aged spots are better to remove with ammonia (1: 10). If the stain is so old, or too absorbed in the fabric, take the bleach with soda (in equal proportions), after removing the stain, rinse the product in water.

Stains from sweat and urine are strongly visible on silk, cotton and linen fabrics. They are destroyed with the help of table salt (1: 10). Stains of urine removed with a solution of vinegar or citric acid (1: 10).

If the coat is dirty, then gasoline, acetone will help here, you need to wipe the contaminated area for a few minutes, then wash it off with water.

The stains from the mold will fade, as long as they are fresh, they must be rubbed with fresh juice from a tomato (note not tomato juice, but juice from a tomato). Then rinse in water. If you do not have tomatoes at the moment, you can take hydrogen peroxide mixed with a small amount of vinegar, and also wipe off the stains.

Spots from iodine excrete ammonia.

You can simply rinse the contaminated product in alcohol, wash it until the alcohol is clear, without iodine.

Blots from acid. If you have such an incident, urgently seek ammonia, pour on the stain, and then immediately rinse. Until you remove the stain, do not wash it with soap, otherwise everything else, you also have greasy stains.

Spots from kerosene. The place where the stain was formed is treated with clean gasoline, before placing a paper under the stain, then sprinkle a macronated stain and put the paper over the stain. On all this put something heavy to the effect of the press, and leave for several hours. After that, the magnesia is removed with a brush.

Spots from oil paint. Here we will be helped by a mixture of equal parts: alcohol, gasoline and turpentine. Only the paint will soften, you can immediately remove it.

If your stain has been on the product for too long, only turpentine will help. They thoroughly moisten the stain, then carefully cleaned with baking soda, and then only washed with warm water.