Tips for cleaning clothes and removing stains

Assign one or another thing in the dry cleaning - the most simple solution. Typically, outer garments - coats, suits, coats, raincoats, etc. cleaned by chemical means.

But, unfortunately, not all things can and should take in dry cleaning. After chemical treatment is sometimes necessary to expose not only clothes. In each house a lot of things and objects, which from time to time require updating.

And how do you make sure of the future of our examples, the reasons for this is enough. This is especially true of small things. In fact: do not bear you to the cleaner's hats, scarves, gloves, bags, suede products, soft toys, jewelry, etc.

Many women do not take the risk take the drums to the chemical processing of precious things of velvet, fine silk and knitwear, furs. But are rare occasions when the newly cleaned clothes fall fruit juice, a spot of oil or other pollution. Too bad happens because of one of the spots once again appeal to the dry cleaning, besides not always have the time and opportunity. In this case, most often remove the stain in the home. This is easier and faster, and sometimes more effective.

Like any other processing things, the removal of spots has its own sequence and common rules that need to be aware and comply with, or instead of one spot can be formed more than one. Before choosing the means for work, one must first of all, know what smear thing. There is value and age of pollution: a fresh stain is much easier to withdraw. This is especially true of spots on fruit and berries. Old stains on them are often not displayed.

Before you remove the pollution from the tissue, it is necessary to clarify the action pyatnovyvodyaschege funds for the fabric and its color. This means experiencing some inconspicuous place, such as the inner seam, under the belt or inside pocket. Swab moistened with medication prepared, treated with a small area to check, does not change whether under the operation of the color and structure of tissue. In order not to spoil the thing, should not be used strong solutions of stain removers. If the stain is not removed entirely at once, you need to repeat his treatment 2-3 times, alternating it with the washing.

When removing stains from wool and natural silk in no case can not be used alkali and alkaline drugs, and with cotton and linen fabric - acid and preparations containing sulfuric, hydrochloric, nitric acid.

For the acetate silk, tissue type "Bologna", other man-made fabrics can not be used acetic acid, and other stain removers, which they dissolve. At home, cleaning clothes from these tissues can be used very concentrated soap solution. Synthetic fabrics (Kapron, nylon, etc.) are afraid of solvents.

Spots should be placed in good light, the best day. During the work to the spot with the reverse side must necessarily underlay a small plate covered with several layers of clean white cotton cloth or swab IE gauze or cotton.

If a product has a lining, it must podporot, and a plate or a tampon inserted between podnladkoy and cloth.For the processing of fabrics not formed the plants ki, good things should be cleaned from dust: to knock out or dry-cleaned first, and then a damp brush.

Undesirable in cleaning the "ghosting" (vague kruti), which are formed around the spot under the action of the drug, can be avoided. To do this, moisten a cloth around the stain with water or sprinkle chalk, if the thing bright color.

Remove stains using solvents always better to make the back of the fabric. This also eliminates the formation of "halos" that are difficult to output. "Halo" are formed from wrong rubbing stain remover detergents funds. The spot appears only on the edges toward the center. Rubbing should be easy to rotational movements until the stain disappears.

Pure tissue around the spot stain remover detergents is desirable not to touch the vehicle. When breeding small spots better to use a dropper or a sharp stick.

And one more rule: every means of chemical treatment of textiles and household items should be stored away from ignition sources, in places not accessible to children. And it goes without saying that strict observance of rules of stain removers listed in the instructions to guarantee you excellent quality of cleaning.

So, we became acquainted with the basic rules. Now consider how a variety of fabrics, objects and things removed various spots, starting with the most light, almost invisible (water stains) to the darkest (stains of soot, tar, etc.). Water stains (mostly rain) on woolen fabrics of different colors clean brush dipped in soft water (perekipyachennoy and chilled), and ironed iron through a damp cloth.

On brightly colored cotton fabrics rain spots are especially noticeable. They are rubbed with a cloth or cotton swab moistened with vinegar (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water), then ironed with an iron inside out.

With silk water stains are removed with salt: the spot sprayed with salt water (1 teaspoon of salt in 1 cup of water) and wipe with a dry cloth or soft brush, then proglazhivayut with iron inside out.

Raindrops almost always leave a stain on the new things: a coat, hat, suit, dress, wore the first time. The chemical way to remove these stains can not. The only way - is uniformly moisten a soft (perekipyachennoy) water the entire fabric, smoothing her soft, damp brush, then dry on hangers.

The spots of rain in the felt hat will disappear if you hold a hat over a saucepan of boiling water. Tainted water can with a smooth velvet underside moisten, wipe the spot with diluted ammonia (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water) and then ironed. This is a difficult and uncomfortable work, as well as velvet to proglazhivat from inside out, keeping it on the weight, not to pile crush and Hf formed the band in a neutral color. This work must be done alone, or better yet three: two holding velvet, and a third proglazhivaet its underside. With such processing, even the old, stale-shayasya velvet thing updated and looks like new.

Water stains on the glossy leather (bags, briefcases, jackets) is removed by rubbing them with colorless shoe polish. The rain stains on suede can be derived by wiping them with wire or rubber brush. Dimmed on the seat location does not make clothes most often they appear on the wool and silk fabrics. Eliminates woolen cloth dampened with acetone, ammonia or a mixture of them (equal parts). Excess fluid is removed blotting. If stains remain, you need to wipe their ammonia (1 teaspoon to 1 / 2 cup water). Before that, you need to determine whether the color does not change tissue.

Dimmed by seating space on woolen fabrics cleaned with dry fine sand, very clean: spots to moisten with warm water, pour on them a small layer of sand and wipe the hard tissue. Then all of a product through the iron a damp cloth, especially carefully dimmed places.

Stains from cosmetics removed in different ways, depending on their origin. They are not easily removed even in dry conditions.

Stains from the spirits in stained tissues can be removed with warm glycerin or white spirit. Stains from creams, masks, pomades, pastes, which include fatty substance, need to show a solvent such as benzene, white spirit, which is sold in stores household chemicals, or a mixture of different solvents. If the tissue appears on the little "halo", it can be washed with diluted vinegar, then rinse with water.

In white cotton fabrics stain removing ammonia and washed with water. Also enjoy heated to 40-50 ° hydrosulfite solution (1 teaspoon to 1 cup hot water), then thoroughly washed with water and powder, designed for this tissue.

Spot, singed an iron, not always taken to remove and dry cleaning. However, you can save the thing as follows: for white and light woolen fabrics should apply hydrogen peroxide solution (2 teaspoons to 1 cup of water) with the addition of several drops of ammonia. If a hot iron ruined cotton fabrics, they should be wiped with a mixture of 1 teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide with 1 / 2 cup water and leave for 15-20 minutes, then wipe with a dry cloth if needed - wash, using a means for washing cotton linen fabric. The markings can be removed by bleaching and filtered through gauze solution of bleach (4-6 g per cup of water). Bleaching produce up until the stain disappears. After this spot several times to thoroughly rinse with cold water, then wash the entire thing.

Stains from perspiration. Fresh stains on silk fabrics of different colors are removed wiping their solution of salt (1 tablespoon to 1 cup of water) or solution hyposulfite, which is sold in the camera store. After removing the stains should be cleaned place and be sure to rinse with warm boiled water. And here is a recipe that can not be used for silk fabrics, but he is perfectly removes stains caused by sweat from all the linen, cotton and linen fabrics: a mixture of salt and borax, and ammonia solution (1 teaspoonful to 1 cup water). After removing the stain section of the cloth is washed with water.

On the white and bright silk patches of sweat should be wiped with a mixture of ammonia and white spirit (in equal small quantities).

With silk lining stains are removed the same mixture. On a white silk lining sweat stains are removed hydrogen peroxide solution with water (1 part hydrogen to 10 parts water).

The spots on a light woolen things first rubbed with a brush dipped in soapy water, then thoroughly washed with water, after which the spot is moistened with diluted oxalic acid (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water). With colored woolen fabrics of different colors and stains deduce mixture white spirit (4 parts) and ammonia (2 parts).Then the product is washed several times with water.

The spots of urine is moistened with a concentrated solution of table salt, then washed with water. Entrenched spot output using citric acid or vinegar essence, diluted with water to 1:3, and thoroughly washed. For the same purpose you can use a mixture of equal parts of salt solution of the dining room and liquid ammonia.

Stains from fruit and berries. The first condition - to remove stains as soon as possible. If they are fresh, they are removed with hot water. Spots with tablecloths, napkins, shirts laundered jet of boiling water: stretch fabric over a basin and pour boiling water from the kettle until until the stain disappears.

Another way: fresh spot to sleep with sodium chloride, hold for 20 minutes, then rinse with soapy water. If possible, before this a few minutes to hold the fabric in hot whey. Old stains rubbed with a mixture of citric acid (4 parts) and ethyl alcohol (10 parts) or an aqueous solution of citric acid (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water). Fabric with a stain should be deleted in this solution for several minutes and then washed successively with warm and cold water. Finish processing washing with soap and things.

Berry stains from white things you can remove hydrogen peroxide, and then cleaned the place to rinse with cold water. More difficult to reduce the stain of such origin with wool and silk fabrics light, and even more dark.In these cases, they are removed with a mixture of glycerin with white spirit (in equal parts). This composition of the stain must be covered with brush or fleece, and leave for several hours. Then wipe with a cloth and rinse with water.

The spots of blood. For their removal can recommend universal detergents (CMC). But they are not always effective. Such spots on different tissues are not eliminated by the same means. First it must be remembered that the spots of blood can not wash with hot water, as it binds them. Usually fresh stains washed first in cold water, then washed in soap solution or a solution of CMC.

With white cotton and linen fabrics old stains, does not eliminate the washing, derived ammonia (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water) or a borax solution (1 teaspoon to 1 cup water). If after such treatment were stained spots, they should be further wipe hydrogen peroxide solution (1-2 teaspoons for 1 cup of water), heated to 50-60 ° C. But there are spots, and that hydrogen peroxide does not take. In such cases, the contaminated sites of tissue processed chlorine bleach with soda (equal parts). The thing to keep in solution the removal of stains, then thoroughly rinsed by adding a little vinegar to the water.

With woolen fabrics stain of blood removed hypo-ulfita solution (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water), heated to 2 ° C. The thing is kept in there until the disappearance of the spot, after which prostiryvayut. If you wish to use household chemicals, we recommend "whiteness." Fatty and oily stains - the most widespread contamination on clothing and household items. Entrenched spots can soak in the serum of sour milk, and once the fabric dries, wipe the stain with salt solution ammonia (1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon of ammonia). Then the whole thing wash with soap solution.

Moldy woolen cloth (color) must first thoroughly dried, and then clean scrub brush. If stains remain, you must wipe them with white spirit.

Leather goods (shoes, gloves, briefcases, suitcases, etc.) should first thoroughly dried, and then profusely rubbed shoe polish, and when he absorbed, clean the brush. Suede after drying and removal of stains cleaned from the remaining traces of the wire or rubber brush. Reduce mold and soap solution. With white cotton and linen fabrics first remove mildew stains with washing in soap solution, then bleached with hydrogen peroxide (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water) or ammonia (1 teaspoon to 1 cup water).

The spots of grass and other vegetation is very difficult to remove. If they are fresh, you can delete them with cotton, linen and silk fabrics stretched in hot water with the addition of salt (1 tablespoon at! Glass of water), the remaining traces of prostiryvayut soap. If things are not subject to washing, they rubbed salt solution, and then white spirit. Entrenched that is difficult stains from cotton and linen fabrics are removed only with hot solution of oxalic acid (1 teaspoon to 0.5 liters of hot water), then the thing should be thoroughly rinsed with water.

Remove tea stains from a mixture of glycerol with ammonia (in 4 parts of glycerin 1 part ammonia). For removing long-standing stains applied solution of oxalic acid (2-3 g per 1 cup of water). Warm solution of moistened spots, and when they disappear, thoroughly washed with water. Another way: tea-stained thing straightened out over a bowl and a thin jet of boiling water from the kettle reduce stains. You can get them while they are fresh.

Stains from cocoa colored wool or silk fabric is removed as follows: the fabric tightly stretched on a deep plate or bowl and poured cold water on the stain, which is diluted a bit of good soap. Watering cloth with water, you need a little time to wipe the stain with a soft brush. Entrenched spot with the same tissue is removed as follows: the spot is moistened with warmed (up to 35-40 ° C) with glycerine, leave for 10-15 minutes in order to glycerol is well absorbed. After this spot wipe swab moistened with glycerine, up to the disappearance of spots. Followed by rinse with glycerin and wash the thing.

On the white and light cotton linen fabric patches from cocoa deduce ammonia (1 teaspoon for 0.5 cups of water) or a mixture of ammonia solution (1 part) and glycerin (20 parts) and water (20 parts). After processing the thing to wash.

Coffee stains on linen or cotton should withdraw as soon as possible. Spot soap, lightly prostiryvayut and the whole thing is put in boiling water. Boil until the spots disappear.

Difficult to remove such stains on wool and silk fabrics. Their clean cloth moistened with soapy water, which add a little ammonia (3-5 teaspoons per 1 liter of water). Then the whole thing wash the usual way. Zastarelyepyatna coffee to moisten the composition: 1 teaspoon of glycerine, 1 teaspoon of water and a few drops of ammonia. Spot wipe the mixture, and when it disappears, washed with hot water.

The spots of rust is not only unpleasant but dangerous. They have the ability to grow, hitting new areas of tissue, and sometimes and burn it to the hole. The assortment of chemical household products is a liquid, paste tools specifically designed for removing rust spots. No less effective and the following method: plot of contaminated cloth (linen, cotton or wool) to put in an enamel bowl with acetic acid (2 tablespoons to 1 cup of water) and warmed to 80-90 ° C. Then wash cloth with warm water, which was added ammonium chloride (1 tablespoon to 2 liters of water). With white cotton, linen and wool fabrics spots appear warmed to 60 ° C hydrosulfite solution (1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water) where you want to delete the cloth for several minutes (until the disappearance of spots), and then rinse with water. With colored fabrics best show rust citric acid. The easiest way to get rid of rust spots - it is a piece of lemon. It must be wrapped in gauze, apply to the spot and spend some time with hot irons. The spot will disappear. This method is suitable for all types of fabrics.

Spots from flies on the things to be washing, remove any soap or detergents. On the bright linen and woolen fabrics stain to moisten ammonia diluted with water (in equal parts), or hydrogen peroxide (1 teaspoon for 0.5 cups of water) and leave for 15-20 minutes, then wipe with a dry cloth, better yet wash .

Soot and smoke have to leave the properties of persistent rough spots of black. And not always easy to remove when washing. Therefore, before washing the stains of soot should be moistened with turpentine. Spots with the things that can not be subjected to washing, remove the swab, moistened with turpentine.

Some clothing can not be washed, and sometimes do not want to erase the whole thing because of one spot. In this case, they can be cleaned.

Velvet does not wash. After washing, it loses its color, shine and fresh look. It must be clean, dry brush, then wipe with a cloth dampened with white spirit. Dry, it is necessary once again to wipe the whole thing is a piece of unstarched cloth moistened with white spirit. To raise and straighten the pile where it will admit have a few minutes to hold the velvet on the ferry and follow the order not to splash water on him, because of this may be additionally formed spots. Then it must be dry and clean scrub brush to shine. Clean your need against the nap.

Fur with a long nap from time to time to scour the rare comb. If fur struck eaten, it must comb, dry, knock out, then wipe with white spirit. To do this, the teeth of the comb should be wound cotton wool soaked in this lineup. Purified fur sprinkle boric acid (top) and knock out a few hours. Shuba must first accurately, but not too much kick, and then cleaned with a brush dipped in white spirit. To fur is not white were yellow, he rubbed solution of hydrogen peroxide (tablespoon to 1 liter of water). Furs, which has already turned yellow, brush a little more powerful hydrogen peroxide solution, but only on the top of the wool, so as not to damage the skin.

To remove stains from grease and sweat to apply one of the following ways: 1) White Spirit - 1 part ammonia - 1 of 2) ammonia - 1 part table salt - 3 parts water - 50 parts.

Hats cleaned in different ways depending on the material. Felt moistened (but not too much) water, diluted by half ammonia, and a clean cloth, wetting it with this solution. First, clean the front of the hat, then the inner. Strips of skin inside the men's hats is best to wipe with a cloth dampened with acetone. Then hat wipe dry with a clean cloth, put on a towel to dry well, then smooth the hair brush. Felt hats can also be cleaned, rubbing talcum powder.

Coated fabrics can not be washed in water, iron, because it destroys the rubber. The best way to clean them with a mixture of ammonia with water (tablespoon of ammonia to 2 / 3 cup of water). A cape is put on the table, brushing, soaking it in the prepared liquid (very wet should not be), then rinse with warm water and not pressing, hanging on a coat hanger away from heat source, preferably outdoors.

Raincoats rubberized be cleaned with chemical products, from this tissue swells and loses its properties. Iron must be very cautious, a little warm iron. It is better to moisten it with water and hang on the shoulders - in the process of drying it is perfectly relaxed. In winter, this coat should be stored on the shoulders and away from heating appliances.