Dry cleaning at home

In everyday life, we face the problem of spots every day. And all would be fine, but the difficulty is how to cope with the spots that have appeared.

No one is safe from stains on clothing. This can happen quite by accident while eating, cleaning, walking, at work, in any public place or at home. The most important thing in this situation is not to be upset and try to determine what a stain and what it is from. It’s good if you noticed right away, for example, in a cafe you knocked over juice or sauce, or while walking in the park you sat on a bench that was recently painted and the paint did not have time to dry to the end.
For all these and other cases, there is a dry cleaning service. But we are not always ready to resort to her services. If the stains are completely fresh, there are ways with which you can get rid of almost all stains at home.
Things with any bold spots (oil, fat, mayonnaise, milk), spots fromdesserts, including chocolate, fromspicespotted byherbs pre-soaked in warm water with washing powder, for about an hour or two. Then washed in the usual way.

Stains frombeets, blackcurrants, fruits, tomatoes, sauces, coffee, tea, wine and blood pre-soaked in cold water for 1 hour. And only then they wash it in a washing machine. Important! Blood stains should be washed as soon as possible with a stream of cold water.
If clothing contains stains frombaby food deodorant (antiperspirant) cosmetics first soak these things in warm water for a couple of hours and only then wash them.
To remove stains frombeerpre-treat them with vinegar - one part vinegar into four parts water. Then wash the thing in a typewriter.
To achieve the desired result, use detergents of well-known brands that have proven themselves among most housewives. For example, washing powder Ariel. By the way, he copes with the usual street dirt even at low temperature - 30 ° C.
Expert Opinion
The moderator of our site, an engineer-technologist of sewing production, a teacher of sewing, Svetlana Khatskevich, gives our readers some more valuable recommendations on how to solve the stain problem:
Of course, the faster you wash a thing with a stain, the easier it is to get rid of it. But it is not always possible to do this immediately. The easy way saves me. You can immediately drip on food greasy stains. dishwashing liquid. So the thing can "tolerate" before washing.
Stains fromwine, berries and fruits You can pour boiling water from the kettle. Fresh spots disappear before our eyes, but old ones can become very pale, but not disappear. In this case, citric acid helps or lemon juice. They grease the stain, let it lie down, and then pour boiling water over it again.
And here protein it is better to immediately wash off the spots with cold water only, it is better also under running water, so they do not spread throughout the fabric. From hot water, the protein will curl up and it will be very difficult to remove.
Then you can soak the thing in cold water with powder for an hour and wash as usual.
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Text: Svetlana Khatskevich.
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