Fruit stains: how to remove from clothes at home?

Any mistress, sooner or later, is asked about how to remove stains from fruit, especially if inhouse there are active and not very neat little children. Traces of fruit juice - not yet an excuse to throw out clothes or translate it into a home. Even abundant spots can be removed from the tissue without a trace, without damaging it.

Remove stains from fruit from clothes

The "older" stain, the deeper it gnaws at the fabric structure and the more difficult it is to remove, so it is better to wash clothes on fresh tracks.

Fresh spots

With fresh contaminants, you can do without any detergents - they are excellently taken out by ordinary boiling water, which must be poured until the stain turns pale and does not disappear.

Another great tool that is guaranteed to be at hand almost any hostess - table vinegar. He displays not only fresh traces of fruits, but also old enough and stale. How to use it? Wet a cotton swab or disc and wipe the stain.

A simple but effective remedy against recent stains is a solution of soda( a teaspoon to a glass of water).

Everyone knows that greasy stains are sprinkled with salt, so that she absorbs most of the fat into herself. The same is true for traces of berries. Therefore, if there is no possibility to wash the thing this second, the salt will help to facilitate washing in the future.

After the dry salt has absorbed some of the fruit juice, it needs to be shaken gently, and on the stain put the gruel from the wet salt and leave it until it is possible to wash the thing in the usual way.

How to remove old spots

1. With old traces of berries the citric acid solution, taken in the proportion of a teaspoon per cup of water, perfectly handles. Instead of lemon, oxalic acid is used. If there is no acid at hand, then you can do even easier and squeeze a little lemon juice on the stain, or even put a piece of lemon on it.
2. A mixture of glycerin and raw egg protein, taken in equal proportion, displays traces of not only berries and fruits, but also products from them, for example wine, and also refreshes the paints on clothes. This agent must be applied to the fabric and wait for it to soak, and then carefully stretch in warm water.
3. If old traces of berries are found on white things from natural materials( cotton and linen), then before washing they are recommended to soak in milk or curdled milk for several hours. And for products made from colored fabrics, apply a spoonful of ammonia and hydrogen peroxide added to a glass of water.
4. In the wool and silk the fruit juice is eaten sufficiently strongly, therefore it is more difficult to remove it - it is necessary to mix "White Spirit" with glycerin in equal proportions, moisten the stain with this composition and leave it for several hours, then wash the product.

Stain remover

Special stain removers are usually quite aggressive substances. Therefore, before using them, it is important to read the instructions or information on the label carefully. There it will be necessary to say how to use the product properly, and for what tissues it is suitable. Even better, if it is possible to check this stain remover on a separate shred of the same fabric or in an inconspicuous place of clothing to be sure that trying to get a stain will not ruin the thing completely. This is especially true for multi-colored and synthetic fabrics, they often behave unpredictably.

Do not immediately use aggressive agents in a saturated concentration, so as not to damage the tissue. It is better to use several more weak solutions several times or gradually increase their concentration.

Council

To ensure that the stain remover does not spread over the fabric along with the rest of the contamination, creating stains around the stain, you can put a good absorbent fabric around the stain, and move the stain away from the edges to the center in a circular motion.

Recommendations

1. After the spray of berries juice has been removed, it is better to wash the thing in cool water with the addition of ammonia( tablespoon per liter of water).
2. Fruit stains can not be removed with soap, from which the contamination is only even better fixed in the fibers of the fabric.
3. If the stain is very small, so that it does not spread over a large area of ​​tissue, the stain remover should be dripped on it from the pipette or by taking a brush or a wooden stick.
4. With woolen fabrics, remove the stain from the berries can be diluted in warm water with glycerin, after which the thing must first be washed with soap and then thoroughly rinse out.

Removing traces of fruit from other surfaces

Naturally, most often stains from berries and fruits are on clothing or kitchen accessories such as towels and tablecloths. But sometimes they fall on floor coverings or carpets. And if you can still wash the carpet, then remove the floor carpet for the sake of this is not the best solution. In general, it is for carpeting that there is a large number of stain removers. They effectively remove stains of many products, and a soiled place afterwards is sufficiently washed with soapy water.

The stains from the surface of artificial leather products( what furniture, what clothes) is best to try to remove with warm water and soap as the most mild and non-corrosive. And only if the thing was not cleared, you can try stronger substances - solvents, alcohol. But there is no guarantee that together with the stain they will not erase part of the paint from the thing.

If nevertheless in no way get rid of the stain on things failed, then it is worth considering how to hide it. If we are talking about traces of berries on the carpet, then they can be hidden under furniture, splashes of fruit juice on the couch will disappear under the pillow. Spots of fruits or berries on clothes are well covered with some decorative element - lace, brooch, appliqué, button, in general, anything suitable to the thing in color and style.