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Remove blood stains - home remedies
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- Heat strengthens the stains
- Home remedies for bloodstains
- alcohol
- Baking powder or potato starch
- Which home remedies for which spots?
- Comforters with down
- You should pay attention to this with blood spots
- salt water
- To the fast
- Grass and blood stains
Heat strengthens the stains
Blood contains a lot of protein. What that means, you see, when you prepare a scrambled egg. Even with less heat, the protein coagulates. For the proteins in the blood, this point is given at 57 degrees Celsius. Therefore, a major flaw is to wash out blood with hot water or throw the blood-stained clothes into the laundry. Hemoglobin, the protein that gives the blood the red color, is made of proteins, and these change their structure by heat. So, if we do it in good faith as thoroughly as possible, that is to say hot, we do not remove the stains, but on the contrary ensure that they are firmly attached to the fibers of the fabric.
If you want to remove a blood stain, keep your fingers away from hot water. However, there are a variety of proven home remedies that can be easily remove the stains. (Image: vectorpocket / fotolia.com) Home remedies for bloodstains
Various home remedies help to remove the blood spots.
1) salt. Wash out the fresh blood stains with cold (!) Water. Then put the soiled fabric in cold salt water. Add about 3 tablespoons salt to one liter of water.
Are the blood spots already dry? Then place the substance in a bucket of cold water and add half a pack of table salt. The laundry is allowed to soak in salt water overnight, then rinse and wash at low temperatures in the washing machine.
2) lemon juice. Lemon juice helps with fresh blood stains. You squeeze fresh lemon juice on the stain and wait about 15 minutes. Then wash out the stain with cold water.
3) Hardly known aspirin. Now do not take it for a headache, but dissolve a tablet in water and rub the water in the stains. Since you do not need to put all the stuff in water, aspirin is also good for staining blood on car seats or carpets.
4) Gallseife. Rub the stain with gall soap. Then rinse the fabric with cold water until no stain is visible.
Thorough treatment with gall soap can often remove blood spots well. (Image: rdnzl / fotolia.com) 5) bathtub. Large garments and / or large blood stains such as bedsheets or runners are best soaked in cold water in the bathtub.
6) spray gun. Some substances can not be washed out in a bowl or tub. These include the covers of car seats, shoes and carpets. Here, pour cold water into a spray gun and spray the stains to moisten them.
Then, drain the dissolved blood with a dry absorbent cloth. Kitchen paper is just like a cotton cloth.
They spray again until no more stains are visible and make sure that the area on the cloth with which they dab remains dry.
7) neutral soap. For blood stains on leather, mix distilled water with neutral soap in a spray bottle and spray the appropriate spot.
8th) Salmiakgeist. If there are blood spots on the wallpaper, mix a portion of ammonia or spirit with ten parts of water in a spray bottle and spray the solution on the spots.
alcohol
Alcohol is recommended for stains on particularly sensitive fabrics, especially silk. Soak a cotton ball with alcohol and dab until the stain disappears. This works best before the blood gets stuck in the sensitive side. Do not try to rub the stain out. So they destroy the silk and can throw the clothes away.
Baking powder or potato starch
Baking soda or potato starch are particularly well suited home remedies for blood stains on wool. They mix the powder with water to a paste that can be spread. These massage into the stain. Take care, for example, take a microfiber cloth. As with silk, do not rub heavily. Otherwise, nodules form on the wool.
A paste of baking soda and cold water can make bloodstains disappear from the carpet. (Image: Africa Studio / fotolia.com) Let the paste work for half an hour, then remove the mixture with a damp cloth and wash the fabric with cold water.
This paste also works against blood stains on upholstery and carpets. Here you wipe out the mixture after the action and remove possible residues after drying.
Instead of using starch you can also make a mixture of flour and glycerine.
Which home remedies for which spots?
For the car seat washing powder or potato starch are suitable, for the duvet and bed sheets washing powder, soap, salt, lemon juice and mineral water. Washing powder and soap are the most effective, water with carbon dioxide the gentlest.
Sofas are best cleaned with washing powder or cornstarch, jeans with washing powder and soap, with cold water in the bath, pillows with washing powder, soap, mineral water or lemon juice. For clothes, washing powder, soap, salt or lemon juice is recommended.
For wool, you can also use soda powder in addition to moist cornstarch.
For shoes, it depends on the material. If it is washable fabric shoes, proceed as with ordinary clothing. For leather and artificial leather you go ahead as well as otherwise for leather.
Comforters with down
For duvets with down, you must be extra careful. You fill half of a bathtub with cold water, then dissolve a cup of washing powder and put the duvet into it. The stains must be completely under water.
Soak the blanket for one hour and rinse thoroughly with the shower of the shower. Then wash the blanket at 30 degrees Celsius in the washing machine.
Even better: wash the blanket with your hand after buffing and lay on a drying rack on two drying racks. Turn the blanket several times during drying and shake it off.
You should pay attention to this with blood spots
Blood stains are persistent and are best removed as long as they are fresh. Therefore, it is best to remove the stains immediately. This is usually possible with cold water without additives.
If e.g. Has left nosebleed marks on the clothing, it should be washed out or soaked as soon as possible. (Image: animaflora / fotolia.com) For home remedies, test them first on an unobtrusive surface. If the remedy is not suitable, it will smudge the stain, and a small nuisance will be a big problem.
If the stains disappear after washing with cold water, there is often an edge left. To remove this, wash the clothes at 30 degrees Celsius. Pay attention to detergents that contain protein-decomposing enzymes. This usually does not apply to fine or wool detergents. The finer the fabric, the more it is advisable to work with gall soap.
For dabbing do not use colored paper or cloth towels. These could rub off and make the damage worse.
Dabbing means not pushing the blood into the tissue and thus enlarging the soiled area.
salt water
So that salt water penetrates better into the fibers, you can easily roughen the fabric before soaking with a toothbrush. You need to be sure that you do not damage the fabric or press blood into the fibers.
To the fast
You do not always have time to wash out the fresh blood stains immediately. Suppose you are already at the front door, on your way to work, and you suddenly get nosebleeds. The blood runs on her fresh shirt collar. They run into the house, in ten minutes the bus comes and they have to act fast.
Put the shirt in a sink, fill with cold water and add salt. Now let the fabric soak and remove the stains when you come back from work.
Or blood is dripping on your clothes while you are eating in the restaurant. Get a bottle of mineral water, go to the bathroom and wash out the blood.
The clothing should not be washed until the blood has been completely removed. Otherwise the stains adhere even more strongly to the fabric due to the heat. (Image: pikselstock / fotolia.com) Grass and blood stains
Sometimes clothes are dirty with grass and blood stains, for example, when a child scrubs its knees. Grass stains can be better removed with a full wash at high temperatures than with cold water. Gall soap and lemon juice are equally effective against blood and grass stains.
If grass stains remain after the blood has washed out, you can rinse the fabric at least 60 degrees in a full wash cycle, but please do not, as long as there is still blood in the clothes, as the protein fixates in heat. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)