Stain removal
How to remove the most common stains, step by step, by stain type.
Stain Types and Removal – Understanding the Categories
A guide to the most common stain types and removal: protein, tannin, grease and pigment – plus the one rule for all: never heat before the stain is out.
Stain: DIY or Send to Cleaning? When Not to Try Yourself
Some stains you should not remove yourself. How to tell when a stain needs a cleaner or not – the warning signs in the care label, fibre, fabric and risk.
How to Remove Tar and Asphalt Stains from Clothes
Tar and asphalt are oil-based and shrug off water. Learn why – and how to dissolve the stain correctly, without rubbing it deeper in.
How to Remove Berry Stains – Blueberry and More
Berry stain from blueberries? Rinse cold from the back before you use soap. How anthocyanin stains behave – and when to use a cleaner.
How to Remove Ink Stains from Clothes
Ink stain on clothes? Ballpoint dissolves in alcohol, water-based ink in cold water. How to lift it without spreading – and when to use a cleaner.
How to Remove Blood Stains Without Setting Them
Blood stain on clothes? Cold water is everything – heat 'cooks' blood in. How to remove fresh and old blood stains, and when to have the garment cleaned.
How to Remove White Deodorant Marks
White deodorant marks aren't yellow sweat stains. Learn how to lift fresh streaks and waxy build-up – and how to prevent them.
Colour Run in the Wash – How to Save Your Whites
A red sock turned your whites pink? Don't dry it – heat sets the dye. How to wash the colour back out, and how to stop a dye run happening again.
Grease and Oil Stains – How to Get Them Out
Grease and oil stains do not come out with water alone. How to draw out the grease, what works on fresh and old stains – and when the fabric should be cleaned.
How to Remove Grass Stains – Step by Step
Grass stains are dye and protein in one. How to lift both with an enzyme detergent and a dab of alcohol – what sets them, and when to use a cleaner.
Yellowed Stains on White Clothes After Storage – How to Remove Them
White clothes gone yellow in storage? Understand why fabric yellows in the wardrobe, how to bleach it back with oxygen, and how to prevent it.
How to Remove Hair Dye Stains From Clothes and Towels
Hair dye is an oxidative colour reaction – once dried, it sets. How to act fast on towels and collars, and when to send the garment in.
Removing Mud and Soil Stains from Clothes
Let mud and soil dry first – don't rub it wet. How to brush off most of it, clean the rest, and when the garment should be professionally cleaned.
Coffee Stain on Clothes – How to Get It Out
Spilled coffee? Act fast and with cold water. How to remove fresh and old coffee stains – and why milk and sugar make the stain a little worse.
How to Remove Curry and Turmeric Stains
Curry and turmeric leave one of the toughest stains – yellow curcumin. Learn why, and how sunlight can remove the rest after washing.
How to Remove Tomato and Ketchup Stains
Tomato and ketchup stains are colour, acid and a little grease at once. Learn why to rinse from the back, skip heat – and when to send it in.
How to Remove Paint Stains from Clothes – Water- or Oil-based?
Paint on clothes? First find out if it is water- or oil-based – that decides the method. How to remove both types, whether wet or dried in.
How to Remove Nail Polish from Clothes
Nail polish on clothes needs a solvent, but acetone can melt fabric and strip colour. How to spot-test, lift it safely, and when to have it cleaned.
How to Remove Vomit from Clothes – Stain, Acid and Smell
Vomit on clothes? Scrape off the solids, rinse cold from the back and soak with enzymes. How to tackle the protein stain, the acid and the smell.
How to Remove Red Wine Stains – Fresh and Old
Spilled red wine? Here is what actually works on fresh and dried-in stains, what is just a myth – and when to have the garment cleaned professionally.
How to Remove Rust Stains From Clothes – Without Bleach
Rust comes out with acid, never chlorine bleach – bleach makes it permanent. How to use lemon, vinegar and sun safely, and when to send it in.
Removing Self-Tan Stains from Clothes
Self-tan on a collar, sheet or towel? How to lift both the bronzer tint and the brown DHA stain – and when the fabric should be cleaned instead.
How to Remove a Chocolate Stain the Right Way
A chocolate stain is grease, protein and dye at once. How to treat it in the right order on fresh and old stains – and when to have it cleaned.
Removing Make-up Stains – Foundation, Lipstick and Mascara
Foundation on the collar, lipstick or mascara? Almost all make-up is pigment in oil and wax – how to dissolve the binder and lift the colour out.
How to Remove Sunscreen Stains from Clothes
Sunscreen stains are grease plus a rust-like orange mark from UV filters. How to treat both – and why chlorine bleach makes it worse.
How to Remove Soot and Smoke Stains from Clothes – Lift, Don't Rub
Soot is dry carbon – rub it and it sets. Learn why you must lift the soot dry first, and how to remove the stain the right way.
How to Remove Candle Wax from Clothes the Right Way
Candle wax on clothes? Let it harden, scrape it off, then melt the rest out through paper with a warm iron – plus the grease and dye left behind.
How to Remove Super Glue from Clothes
Super glue on clothes cures into hard plastic. How to dissolve it with acetone or freeze it off – safely for the fabric, and when to have it cleaned.
How to Remove Marker Stains From Clothes
Permanent or water-based marker? That decides the method. How to lift marker with alcohol or a wash without spreading it – and when to send it in.
Removing Chewing Gum from Clothes – Freeze, Don't Pull
Chewing gum on your clothes? Don't pull it – freeze it hard so it turns brittle and lets go. The step-by-step method, and what to do with the residue.
How to Remove Urine Stains – and the Smell
Urine stain with a smell that keeps coming back? Rinse cold, use enzymes on the uric acid, and avoid hot water and bleach. Remove both stain and odour.
Remove Water Rings and Marks on Fabric – Without Making a New One
Ugly water ring after a spill dried? Learn why the ring forms, how to remove a water mark on fabric without a new one, and when silk needs a cleaner.
Removing Stains From Wool and Silk Without Ruining the Garment
Wool and silk are protein fibres that bleach and enzymes can ruin. How to lift stains gently – and when to leave it to the professionals.
Yellow Sweat Stains on Your Shirt – How to Remove Them
Yellow underarm sweat stains are not just sweat – it is aluminium from deodorant binding into the fabric. How to remove them, and what you must never do.
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