How to remove old stains from clothes?

Almost everyone had a stain on some clothes. But not in every situation, you can immediately find the time to use stain removers and to wash things. Then this process is also postponed because of more urgent and urgent cases. As a result, the product lies in anticipation of its "star hour", and simple washing does not help it anymore. And what, immediately throw out your favorite blouse or pants? Or go to a dry cleaner? We know how to take out old spots from clothes, and we will share this information with you with pleasure.

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Rules for removing stains

This procedure is entirely within the power of any mistress, but you must act carefully so as not to spoil the thing.

There are some simple rules, under which the excellent result is guaranteed:

• Removing a fresh spot is much easier;
• The procedure is performed on the wrong side of the garment;
• To prevent spillage of the stain, the cloth around it is moistened and sprinkled with chalk;
• The first thing to do is to use gentle washing;
• For nylon, acetate silk and nylon it is forbidden to use gasoline, vinegar, acetone and other solvents;
• After the hydrogen peroxide, yellow spots may appear, so things are thoroughly rinsed out after use;
• Things are always erased after processing.

Important! Before you try to take out an old stain from your clothes, you must learn the labels on it, otherwise the thing can be irreparably damaged.

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Displays the spots

Spots of different origin and are output by different means. For example, someone is interested in how to take out an old stain from clothes, and someone shed a little green on himself just now. Let's consider all the options in more detail.

Tea

Probably, there are no people in the world who would not shed their tea, especially in childhood. Such contamination is quite persistent. If you do not get rid of it immediately - the work will only become more complicated.

To soak a fresh stain, soap or powder is used, but with old ones you have to tinker:

1. Preheat glycerine to 35 degrees, and then apply to the spot for a quarter of an hour. After the thing is rinsed.
2. Oxalic acid - 2-3 grams, diluted with water and put the solution on the stain for a while. This method removes yellow spots well.
3. You can use a special stain remover.
4. Prepare a mixture of ammonia and glycerin in a proportion of 1 to 4. We put it on a dirty place, and then the thing is erased.

Sweat

This problem most often occurs in the summer or in the winter when you wear synthetic fibers. In the sweat of a person there are salts, because of which spots appear on clothing. If the contamination is fresh, it is eliminated with detergent during washing. And, washing can be both manual, and machine.

And how to get out old stains from clothes? First of all, the thing is soaked for a long time, and then one of the methods presented below is used:

• Woolen things are treated with strong saline solution. If the stain can not be disposed of, it is rubbed off with alcohol.
• The stain can be removed with a mixture containing ammonia and ethyl alcohol in equal amounts. The product after treatment should be stretched in cold water.
• White things are bleached with a tampon dipped in hydrogen peroxide.
• To clean out the silk product, a mixture of denatured alcohol and ammonia is used in equal amounts.
• For washing different fabrics, you can use a solution containing ammonia( 1 tbsp.), Table salt( 1 tbsp.) And water( 10 tbsp.).

Iodine

With such contamination, parents of young children often face. So, a fresh spot of iodine is needed:

1. Fill with food soda, which is usually used for baking.
2. Top with the table vinegar.
3. The product should be kept for at least twelve hours.
4. Thing should be washed with powder.

Paint

Pollution of this kind is very difficult to deduce.

Important! In order to remove the paint, you need to act very quickly, within thirty minutes.

Different methods use different methods. The general one - from the top dried up layer it is necessary to get rid by means of a blunt part of a knife.

The following tools are further used:

• When using detergent for dishes, it is applied to the stain with a sponge and left for 10-12 hours. After this, the fat will dissolve and the remains of the paint can be removed using a brush.
• For cotton, you can use gasoline, kerosene or turpentine. The agent is applied to the stain and left for an hour. Remains are wiped off with a light rag.
• To clean light cotton, a mixture of gasoline and white clay is prepared. The solution is applied to the contamination for a couple of hours, after which the paint is simply pushed out with clay.
• Wool must be rubbed with soap. Soap should be dry. After a while, you need to warm up the technical alcohol, which wipes the paint until it disappears completely.
• Synthetic fabric is wiped off with ammonia. Then, ammonia and salt are added to the washing water.

Blood

Such unpleasant stains can be disposed of in various ways:

• Peroxide or ammonia. This option is suitable for both fresh and aged contamination.
• Soak for a quarter of an hour in a salt solution.

Paraffin wax

Spots from a candle can also appear on clothing. To remove them, proceed as follows:

1. Wax is scraped off the fabric.
2. Blotting paper is laid on both sides.
3. The product is ironed. It should not be very hot.
4. The paper changes until the spot disappears completely.

Cosmetics:

• If the composition of the cosmetic product includes fats, they are treated in the same way as with other fatty stains.
• If other cosmetics remain on linen, cotton or woolen cloth, ammonia is used to remove it.
• To remove lipstick, trichlorethylene, gasoline or pure alcohol is used.
• The varnish is eliminated with acetone or amyl acetate.

Felt-tip pens and ink

If the pen came out or the child used the thing as a canvas, you can use alcohol or vinegar. A marker is removed by milk or curdled milk, which are used to wash the soiled area.

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How to get rid of very old spots?

And what if the pollution appeared a long time ago, how to remove old spots from clothes? Even after ten years, you can remove dirt from natural cloth.

To do this, get:

• A large pot that is not used for cooking;
• Spoon, which will also never be eaten;
• Washing powder( any) - 2 tbsp.l.;
• Powder stain remover - 2 tbsp.l.;
• Refined vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.l.

Next, proceed according to the following algorithm:

1. The pot boils water.
2. A mixture of powder, oil and stain remover is added to the boiling water.
3. Put things in a saucepan.
4. Turn off the hotplate.
5. After cooling water things are transferred to the washing machine.
6. Put the machine in the rinse and spin mode.
7. It remains to dry things.

Important! Such treatment can withstand only dense fabrics, not of synthetic origin.

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How to whiten tulle?

After years, the white tulle is covered with yellow spots that do not disappear during normal washing. That is why the relevance of this issue is so great. The important thing is that you can solve it. Before starting bleaching, the tulle is rubbed off to remove dust and dirt.

Important! The water temperature during washing should not exceed 30 degrees.

For many years, the hostess in practice has developed a number of rules:

• If the whitening of curtains is carried out for the first time, you can use a good stain remover. The product is diluted as indicated in the instructions, and then in the solution we soak the tulle. Then it must be rinsed.

Important! This way you can use only once. Already during the second procedure the tulle will turn into a little gray.

• The next method was used by grandmothers. In this case, blue is used. It in a small amount( about a cap) is diluted in water. Curtains are a little soaked, and then rinsed with warm water.
• And you can also use zelenok. Net tulle is soaked for 2 hours in water with powder and salt( 3 tablespoons).After that, green water( 3-4 drops) is added to the water and the curtain rinses. Due to this, not only yellowness disappears, but elasticity appears in the fabric.

As you can see, nothing is impossible. The most important thing is to act quickly. Moreover, most of the remedies for removing stains are in any house, in the kitchen or in the bathroom.