How To Remove Every Stain – Tips From A Dry Cleaner #laundry

Most stains aren’t as unique as they look, almost every stain fits into just 5 categories:

Enzymatic stains (food, blood, chocolate, grass, body oil) → use an enzyme treatment and wait for an hour for best results.

Oily stains (sebum, grease, butter, oil) → dish soap or liquid detergent does the trick, just don’t overdo it!

Oxidizable stains (coffee, wine, sweat) → oxygen bleach like hydrogen peroxide or a powdered oxygen bleach (OxiClean).

Particulate stains (dirt, mud, clay, sand) → washing soda, borax, or baking soda.

Special stains (makeup, ink, rust, sunscreen, wax, marker) → need targeted specific treatments.

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This is a dry cleaner’s guide on how to remove every stain from your clothes. Because it may seem like there are hundreds of unique stains, but just about every stain can be sorted into one of five categories and each has their own basic and pretty easy procedure. First up are the most common ones in my opinion, enzyatic stains. These are basically all food, drink, and stains that are created by our body. Examples include blood, tomato sauce, grass, and body oil. We need to use enzyatic treatments to break down these large molecules into small ones so our detergent can wash them away. Oily and greasy stains are actually the most prevalent stains by weight on our clothes as us humans produce a lot of seabbum or body oil. To remove oily stains, use surfactants like dish soap or liquid detergent. I like to keep a bottle of diluted dish soap in a spray bottle to easily treat oil stains and ensure I don’t overdo it. Next, we have an easy to remove category called oxidizable or bleachable stains. These include tea, coffee, red wine, and yellow sweat stains. Use oxygen bleach like OxyClean or hydrogen peroxide. As these stains are really just a bit of color that we have to correct. Particulate stains, which is a fancy way to say dirt and mud, is our fourth category. To break up the metallic bonds that attach dirt to our clothes, we need to use a builder like baking soda, washing soda, or borax. If you have a really stubborn one, make a paste and pre-treat it. Rub it in. Otherwise, just add some of this to your drum and wash. So, the last category are special stains like makeup, ink, mold, brush, sunscreen that don’t really fall into one of these four categories. Usually, they require a specific treatment. So, check out the cleanub.com or ask jesny for a step-by-step guide for removing these or any stain, frankly. It’s a free resource made by me. Hopefully, this simplifies the often enormous realm of stain removal.