How to remove oil stain from clothes?

Cooking a festive dinner in the kitchen, you can completely spoil your mood, you just have to add an oil stain to your clothes. Now all thoughts are only about one thing: how to remove oil without consequences?

It is not easy to remove sunflower oil from clothes, as it is quickly absorbed into the fabric, and it will not work with ordinary water, even with expensive powder. It does not dissolve in water at all.

Folk remedies come to the rescue, to which our grandmothers also resorted. Consider the most productive of them and save the family budget from unnecessary spending.

Oil stains on plain fabric

Unfortunately, oil stains are not uncommon. But they should not be the subject of great disappointment, since you can remove sunflower oil using conventional means, those that are easy to find in any apartment:

• dishwashing liquid;
• baking soda;
• paper towels;
• worn out toothbrush.

So, what is the procedure for removing oil contamination from clothing using the above tools and items?

1. Blot a trace of oil with a white paper towel. The towel should be without a pattern to avoid staining
2. Fill a place of pollution with a thick layer of soda. If suddenly it is not at hand, you can take starch.
3. Observe time (from 30 minutes to an hour).
4. Rub the sprinkled place with the prepared toothbrush. Soda, absorbing oil, becomes lumpy, can also acquire its shade. It will be possible to wash the remaining soda during the washing of the product.
5. If heavily soiled, repeat the above procedure again.
6. Pour dishwashing liquid onto the stain with baking soda residues. Rub the product with your fingers. The result of this process should be the presence of fluid on the surface of the tissue.
7. Add a little more liquid if the previous one is completely absorbed.
8. Wash in the car, relying on the instructions on the label.
9. To enhance the action of washing powder, add a glass of white vinegar to the drum.

Old spots are ready for removal

The most unpleasant case of all is when the oil imprint is invisible, and we learn about it after a long time, the thing by that time has already been washed and dried. There is no reason for sadness - and such pollution can be removed. The main thing is to prepare everything you need in advance:

• baking soda;
• dishwashing liquid;
• aerosol WD-40;
• a sheet of cardboard;
• worn toothbrush;
• a bowl;
• cotton buds.

So, what is the sequence of actions for removing an old oil stain from clothes? It resembles the one described above, but, nevertheless, has significant differences.

• Stage One.

Place a sheet of cardboard under the stain, the size of which should be more than pollution. Cardboard prevents the absorption of oil by other layers of clothing. Indeed, when you remove the size of the processed surface can significantly increase.

• Stage Two.

Spray aerosol onto the contaminated area. If the oil stain is very small, you can remove it by spraying the spray pointwise with a cotton swab. And in this case it is better to sprinkle it in the prepared bowl.

• Stage Three.

Pour a layer of soda onto the stain sprayed with aerosol as thick as possible. And then rub it with a toothbrush.

Tip

During rubbing, watch for soda: when it turns into lumps, actions can be completed.

• Stage Four.

Shake off the remaining soda. If you can’t remove them completely, it’s okay, they will disappear without a trace during the first wash. You can try to wash them a little in advance.

• The fifth stage.

Rub a small amount of dishwashing liquid into the stain. Top it up until it spreads in a thin layer over the entire surface of the contamination. This is necessary in order to completely remove the stain.

• Stage Six.

Wash in a typewriter according to the instructions on the clothing label. The dishwashing liquid poured onto the stain does not need to be washed off additionally, it will be washed by itself without any effort.

• Seventh stage.

Make sure to remove the stain, and then hang the item on the dryer. If it was not possible to remove the pollution, the thing needs to be dried, and the removal procedure should be started again. Patience will help achieve the desired result.

Oil stain on jeans

Denim is a whimsical fabric. Removing an oil stain from it is not an easy process. But there is a whole list of tools and tricks. Therefore, now we will try to figure out how to remove the oil stain without effort and labor.

1. Get wet with a napkin. Just do not rub in any case, otherwise the stain is only more absorbed into the jeans.
2. Sprinkle pollution with salt, wash at home with laundry soap.
3. Use dishwashing detergent. A droplet of this composition, rubbed well into the stain, and then washed in a typewriter, can work wonders.
4. Wash jeans with a solvent - refined gasoline. The color of your favorite trousers will be intact, and the stain will disappear forever and ever.
5. Wash vegetable oil with a preliminary stain remover.
   

   Tip

   If the jeans are dark, it is best to use oxygen-containing products.

6. Treat the oil stain with potato gruel, and after about half an hour, wash with laundry soap. Instead of potatoes, potato starch is suitable.
7. Clean the jeans with crushed chalk poured on the wrong side. Sweep away the remains with a brush, and then the product must be completely washed.

Choosing funds based on the freshness of the stain and fabric of the product, the problem can be dealt with without the hassle and worries.