How to wash chocolate

Contents:
  • Where to start?
  • How to wash chocolate?
  • How to wash a stain from chocolate?
  • How and how to wash fresh chocolate stains?
  • Than and how to wash away old spots from chocolate?
  • How to remove chocolate from light fabrics?
  • How to wash chocolate from delicate fabrics?
  • Useful advices

Chocolate is a delicious sweetness that all adults and children love. It is useful for the body in small amounts, reduces fatigue, increases work capacity and is an excellent antidepressant, but has one negative feature - if the chocolate gets on the fabric, it leaves hard-to-remove fatty stains. So the question naturally arises: how to wash chocolate?

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Where to start?

Before you start cleaning up your chocolate thing, it's useful to know:

  1. Simplify the simple washing-off procedure: brush the dust off the product with a brush to avoid excess dirt stains.
  2. Chop the chocolate with a blunt object or brush.
  3. Before using any product, test it for compatibility with tissue on an inconspicuous area of ​​the product.
  4. Remove the stain from the wrong side.
  5. Do not rub the contamination, avoid spreading the spot.
  6. Remove traces from the edges, gradually moving to the middle.
  7. If you use solutions, start with less aggressive agents, if necessary increase concentration.
  8. Alternate the application of the product and rinse.
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Than to wash the chocolate?

Depending on the type of fabric and the degree of soiling, choose the cleaning agents that you offer:

  • household 72% soap;
  • dishwashing detergent;
  • salt;
  • baking soda;
  • denatured alcohol;
  • ammonia;
  • glycerol;
  • egg yolk;
  • milk;
  • hydrogen peroxide;
  • oxalic acid;
  • hyposulphite;
  • boric acid;
  • refined gasoline;
  • means for soaking laundry from Amway;
  • special stain remover of any convenient brand for you.
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How to wash a stain from chocolate?

There are many ways to solve this problem. The easiest thing is to take the product to a dry cleaner, but why waste time and energy if you can wash the chocolate at home with the help of handy tools.

We offer you several effective ways to remove the stain from chocolate from clothes at home.

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How and how to wash fresh chocolate stains?

The newly formed contamination of any origin is much easier to clean than if it has already been absorbed into the fabric structure. Therefore, if you immediately noticed drops or blots on your clothes and you can immediately start removing them, do not hesitate! In this case, it is likely that you will be able to cope with the problem in just 5 minutes!

Method 1

To remove chocolate use ordinary household soap:

  1. Wash off the main part of the contamination with warm water.
  2. Soap the stained area.
  3. Leave for a while and then wash.

Method 2

To remove brown marks, warm milk will help you:

  1. Soak the contaminated area.
  2. Leave it for a while.
  3. Lightly rub.
  4. Wash in a washing machine with the addition of an active powder.

Method 3

This method is suitable for simple fabrics:

  1. Make a strong saline solution.
  2. Soak a problem place.
  3. Wait a while.
  4. Remains of dirt rubbed with 3% solution of ammonia.
  5. Rinse out.
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Than and how to wash off old stains from chocolate?

If you notice chocolate on your things already "post-factum", you will have to try a little more to remove it. But still the problem is solved.

Recipe 1

  1. In a small container, mix: 1 tbsp.water, ¼ st.detergent, ¼ tbsp.ammonia, 3 tbsp.baking soda.
  2. Shake well.
  3. Place a clean white cloth under the cloth.
  4. Use a swab dipped in the product to stain the stain.
  5. After a while, wash in the usual way.

Important! If the contamination is too extensive, use a spray gun to apply the solution evenly.

Recipe 2

  1. Dilute 1 tsp.boric acid in 0.5 tbsp.water.
  2. Spread the mixture in a dirty cloth, do not rub it.
  3. Leave it for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Wash with any detergent.

Recipe 3

  1. Mix 1 tsp.glycerin and 1 egg yolk.
  2. Apply the mixture to the stain and rub it gently.
  3. Rinse with warm water.
  4. Iron the cleaned area from the wrong side with a damp cloth.

Recipe 4

To remove the chocolate from the suit, use pure gasoline:

  1. Dampen a white cotton cloth in the gasoline.
  2. Gently wipe the stain.
  3. Change contamination of the cloth as it gets dirty.
  4. Wash the product with an aqueous solution of ammonia in a 1: 1 ratio.
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How to remove chocolate from light fabrics?

Despite the apparent great problem with white clothes, washing chocolate is much easier than with color. Here you can use any bleaching agents, even quite aggressive household chemicals.

Option 1

  1. Take 9% hydrogen peroxide.
  2. Moisten a cotton pad in it, soak the stained cloth.
  3. Give time for reaction 10-15 minutes.
  4. Rinse in cool water.

Option 2

  1. Use oxalic acid.
  2. Dilute 0.5 teaspoons of water ½ tsp.acid.
  3. Apply the solution to the problem site.
  4. After a while, wash in soapy warm water with the addition of ammonia in a proportion of 1 liter of water 2 tsp.ammonia.
  5. Rinse the product in warm water.
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How to wash chocolate from delicate fabrics?

To get this sweetness off silk and woolen fabrics, try one of the following suggested special techniques.

Solution 1

Use glycerin according to the following scheme:

  1. Wash the glycerine bottle in hot water up to 35-40 degrees.
  2. Moisten the tampon in a liquid.
  3. Wipe clean.
  4. Wait for 10-15 minutes.
  5. Rinse with warm water.

Solution 2

Apply a mixture of denatured and ammonia alcohol:

  1. Mix both substances in a 3: 1 ratio.
  2. Apply the alcohol mixture to the fabric.
  3. After a few minutes, wash the product in soapy water.
  4. Rinse under running water.

Solution 3

You can wash off the stain with oleic acid. It is an oily liquid that is used for soap making, and is a part of various cosmetics. If it is available, proceed as follows:

  1. Drop a few drops directly onto the stain.
  2. Rub the substance with your fingers.
  3. Soak a cotton swab in refined gasoline.
  4. Remove the bold print.
  5. Wash hands by washing in warm water with laundry soap.

Solution 4

Well displays such a complex dessert hyposulfite. It can be purchased at a pharmacy in the form of a 40% solution or photoshop in its pure form( sold as a fixer for photographs).If you managed to buy it, do so:

  1. Dilute 1 tsp.substance at 0.5 tbsp.water.
  2. Apply the solution to a stained area.
  3. Make a soap solution with the addition of ammonia.
  4. Thoroughly rinse the product in running water.

Solution 5

Use soap and spotting agent SA8 Tri-Zyme from Amway:

  1. Soak the cloth in warm water.
  2. Apply concentrate.
  3. Wait until the time indicated in the instruction.
  4. Wash it in a convenient way.

Solution 6

Resort to special stain remover - it can be bought at any hardware store. It can be a modern "Vanish" or more habitual "Whiteness":

  1. Apply the cotton swab soaked in the bleach to the soiling.
  2. Wait for 10-15 minutes.
  3. Thoroughly rinse the cleared area in warm water.
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Useful advices

  • Do not tighten with washing - a fresh stain is always easier to remove than dried.
  • If the stain is not completely removed, do not put it in the dryer to avoid pinning the stain.
  • Use rubber gloves when using chemicals.

Now you know all the ways of washing chocolate off any clothes. Take this information for yourself and use it as soon as this trouble happens. The result you will certainly enjoy!