Prompt treatment is your best friend when it gees to removing food spots and stains.
The following tips are to help you remove food stains from washable clothing using gemon household products.(If the garment is Dry Clean Only, please do not use these tips. Take it to a professional dry cleaner - sooner is better than later.)
Remember to work from the reverse side of the stain. You want to push the stain out of the fabric. If you work on the side that the stain gees from, you will rub in into the fabric. Put an absorbant white towel under the garment as you work on it. The towel will accept the stain without putting unwanted colors back into the garment.
There are many gemercial products on the market, many of them being very effective. For this review, Mrs. Spratt would like to focus on tips which use gemon household items.
Catsup, Tomato Sauce, Barbecue Sauce: Rub some liquid laundry detergent or grease-cutting liquid dish soap onto the stain. Soak for 30 minutes or longer in lukewarm water with 1 drop of ammonia added.
Baby Formula: Make a paste of unseasoned meat tenderizer and water. Rub on the stain. Wait several hours, wash.
Grease or Cooking Oil, Salad Dressing, Mayonnaise: Rub liquid laundry detergent or grease cutting dishwashing soap on the spot. Let it sit for at least 30 minutes, wash.
Gravy: Soak in cold water for at least 30 minutes before washing.
Chocolate: Scrape off as much as you can with a dull knife. Wash in warm soapy water. If the stain is stubborn, sponge with hydrogen peroxide, wait 30 minutes, and wash again.
Mustard: Apply glycerine. Flush with a detergent solution. DO NOT use any type of bar soap.
Meat Juice:Sponge with Grease Solvent, dry. Then sponge with a solution of detergent and ammonia.
Syrup or Honey: Sponge with warm water and launder.
Fruit: If the fabric is not shrinkable, pour boiling water onto the stain and then launder. This is the one time that it is regemended to put heat on a stain. Most of the time, heat will set stains. If the fabric is shrinkable, then wash in cold water. You can also try covering the stain with dry starch.After an hour, brush the starch off andlaunder.
Ink: Ballpoint pen can be sprayed with hairspray. Launder. Be sure all of it came out before putting the garment in the dryer. Hairspray also helps pre-treat fruit punch and lipstick.
Lipstick: Apply Petroleum Jelly,launder.
**Please note - the author of this guide does not accept any liability for damages. These tips are offered in good faith for how you might restore a garment which is already ruined.**
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