Than to wash off engine oil from clothes in house conditions( jackets, jeans)

It's very easy to put a stain on the clothes from engine oil, it can happen not only during the maintenance of your own car, but also a simple trip by car or by public transport. Know how to wash engine oil, which can penetrate deeply into fibers, few know. More often than not, people prefer to part with a soiled garment without even trying to wash it off.

In fact, it is not so difficult and troublesome as it seems at first glance. Possessing certain skills and knowledge, you can do without dry cleaning, in which things are often completely ruined, and an unplanned shopping trip.

Basic rules and important nuances of work with outerwear

The main rule of the approach - do not try to wash the engine oil by the most common run of the product in the washing machine. Washing powders will not give the desired effect, and bleach will only spoil the very thing. From mechanical treatment with brushes, too, it is better to give up, they only thinen matter, and motor or engine oil will absorb even deeper.

Here are some effective techniques by which you can remove stains of engine oil from outer clothing:

• If the material does not have a high absorption rate( the surface of the jacket or tight jeans) and the stain still looks fresh, apply it without rubbing,dishes and leave for a quarter of an hour. After the specified time, we begin to soak the stain with dry tissue napkins until the formation completely disappears. Then we wash the product in the usual way.
• A spot, planted a few minutes ago, with a sticky surface, can be sprinkled with chalk rubbed into fine powder. Particles absorb the oil substance, they need only be carefully removed. Further, the item is to be washed.
• With a jacket or down jacket oil is well removed by kerosene. It is poured on a stain, waiting for a few seconds and begins to shift a piece of tissue from the periphery to the center. This approach leaves visible divorce, so the subsequent washing of the product is mandatory.

Tip: Divorce from kerosene can be removed only when washing cloth in very hot water. So first you need to make sure that the soiled object allows such an aggressive approach to cleaning. Otherwise, you will have to choose another processing option.

How to clean oil stains with denim fabric?

The surface of jeans suffers from the ingress of engine oil much more often than other garments. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to remove the stain from engine oil from this fabric. If the thing is very expensive and not completely covered in mud, you can use one of the following methods:

• First, the surface of the jeans is treated with a solvent. Strongly not three, otherwise the color of the fabric will change. Solvent sprinkled with detergent powder, sprinkle with water and start rubbing with a brush. We work with effort, stroking oil stains not to remove.
• A good result gives a special spray, which can be purchased at a hardware store. Unfortunately, it does not work on old spots, so you will have to take care of it beforehand.
• There is another way, which implies the use of a very aggressive means - a mixture of ammonia and turpentine. Before you wash the engine oil in this way, it is worthwhile to prepare for the fact that the garment can be hopelessly corrupted. Mix the two components and apply to the stain, clean it with a tissue napkin. After obtaining the desired result, we erase the product manually in several shifts of soapy water. After the approach, jeans may have a persistent unpleasant odor, which will erode very slowly.

When working with technical fluids, care must be taken to protect hands, mucous membranes, respiratory organs. Manipulation should be carried out in gloves and a mask is best in the fresh air. In addition, you have to come up with something to protect your clothes. It often happens that in the process of working the spots simply go from one surface to another because of the violation of the elementary technical rules.

Can I get rid of old spots quickly and permanently?

If stains on the surface of jeans or outer clothing were found out a few months after the contamination, there is still a chance to wash them even at home. With the damage of very thin materials it is necessary to reconcile, their structure simply will not take effect and will be destroyed. Even if the stain is gone, the product will lose its aesthetic appearance.

Before you wash off old-fashioned engine oil from a garment, you need to choose a suitable product for color:

1. Petrol is considered a universal tool, it can be used for cleaning a black velvet jacket or dense light jeans. We take two tissue napkins, we moisten it in gasoline and apply it to the spot with the spirit of the sides. For half an hour the butter should go to napkins, then things will only have to be washed.
2. In some cases, the solvent also helps, but only if the product is of a dark color. The spot is carefully processed by an aggressive compound, after which the product is erased in the machine or by hand. You can repeat it several times, but you need to monitor the color of the treated area.
3. Today on the shelves of hardware stores a special soap appeared to remove the old stains, including oil. The product is rubbed into a pre-moistened surface, left for half an hour and rinsed. Next, machine wash.

These approaches will help to get rid of other technical impurities, for example, from engine oil or fuel oil. But you need to soberly assess the danger of such exposure and, if possible, use specialized cleaners or consult specialists.