How To Remove Holi Colors From Clothes
There are a number of good ways in which you can still rescue your clothes and wear them again for a long time to come.
O Use the good old bleach. If the clothes are white, soak in hot water with non-chlorine bleach and wash as usual. Keep them away from other clothes as they might catch more stain or worse stain rest of the laundry. Dry over a hanger separately.
- Try washing out the stains in a couple of liters of cold water with 1/2 cup [120 ml] of white vinegar and 1 teaspoon [5 ml] of liquid detergent. The acid in vinegar can counteract the chemicals in the colors and make them come loose from the clothing.
- If laundering with detergent isn't enough, try a clear ammonia-based spray-on window cleanerinstead. It's the ammonia in the window cleaner that does the trick and you want uncolored cleaner to avoid staining the fabric. Spray the stain with the window cleaner and let it sit for up to 15 minutes. Blot with a clean rag, rinse with cool water, and launder again.
- Use lemon juice over the stains, soak for 15 minutes and lightly scrub it with hands. Then launder the clothes as usual albeit separately.
- Rub some methylated spirits (a.k.a. alcohol), undiluted, on the stained clothing and rinse well in cold water, then wash as normal.
- Mix a teaspoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide with a little cream of tartar or a dab of non-gel toothpaste. Rub the paste on the stain with a soft cloth. Rinse. The color stain should be gone.
To scrub those stains for a long time can be quite painful, not to mention the chemicals can seriously react with your skin. Make sure you're using the correct methods.
- To remove deep colors, try using a soft-bristled nylon toothbrush, dabbing it gently to work in the stain-removing agent (bleach or vinegar, for example) until the stain is gone.
- An empty spray bottle can always be put to good use around your laundry room. Use clean, recycled bottles to spray water on your clothes as you're ironing. Or fill a spray bottle with stain remover solution so that you can apply it to your garments without having to blot up drips.
- Clothes should be sorted correctly. You don't want to get the stains to pass on to clean clothes while laundering them. That would be quite ironic. Similarly, you don't want colors from other brightly colored clothes to bleed onto the already stained fabric.
- Fresh stains make stain removal an easy task. Give yourself the upper hand by treating stains as promptly after they happen as possible.
- Fresh stains make stain removal an easy task. Give yourself the upper hand by treating stains as promptly after they happen as possible.
- If your stains are on a non-washable fabric, take them to the dry cleaners as soon as possible. Be sure to point out the stain to the dry cleaner and describe the nature of the stain. This makes the likelihood of success greater.
- Don't mix stain removal products. Mixing different chemicals can cause toxic odours and mixed results on your clothing.
- Stain removal can take time. Sometimes repeat treatments may be required. Be sure to thoroughly check the garment before drying to determine if a repeat treatment is necessary. Drying will cause a stain to set.
- Remember to thoroughly wash items that have treated with stain removal products to remove product residue along with the stain residue.
- Never use chlorine bleach on colored garments because the bleach will fade and discolor the fabric. Use non-chlorine, color-safe bleach if you are unsure, because the products are gentler and less toxic.
- Never use both chlorine and non-chlorine bleach together. They cancel out each other's effect.
And lastly, when all is said and done, know that some color stains just won't leave. Try the above given tips and if none of them works, make peace with the fact you may have to discard that piece of clothing and take heart in the fact that at least you had a great fun getting them spoiled while playing with loved ones.
There are a number of good ways in which you can still rescue your clothes and wear them again for a long time to come.
O Use the good old bleach. If the clothes are white, soak in hot water with non-chlorine bleach and wash as usual. Keep them away from other clothes as they might catch more stain or worse stain rest of the laundry. Dry over a hanger separately.
- Try washing out the stains in a couple of liters of cold water with 1/2 cup [120 ml] of white vinegar and 1 teaspoon [5 ml] of liquid detergent. The acid in vinegar can counteract the chemicals in the colors and make them come loose from the clothing.
- If laundering with detergent isn't enough, try a clear ammonia-based spray-on window cleanerinstead. It's the ammonia in the window cleaner that does the trick and you want uncolored cleaner to avoid staining the fabric. Spray the stain with the window cleaner and let it sit for up to 15 minutes. Blot with a clean rag, rinse with cool water, and launder again.
- Use lemon juice over the stains, soak for 15 minutes and lightly scrub it with hands. Then launder the clothes as usual albeit separately.
- Rub some methylated spirits (a.k.a. alcohol), undiluted, on the stained clothing and rinse well in cold water, then wash as normal.
- Mix a teaspoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide with a little cream of tartar or a dab of non-gel toothpaste. Rub the paste on the stain with a soft cloth. Rinse. The color stain should be gone.
To scrub those stains for a long time can be quite painful, not to mention the chemicals can seriously react with your skin. Make sure you're using the correct methods.
- To remove deep colors, try using a soft-bristled nylon toothbrush, dabbing it gently to work in the stain-removing agent (bleach or vinegar, for example) until the stain is gone.
- An empty spray bottle can always be put to good use around your laundry room. Use clean, recycled bottles to spray water on your clothes as you're ironing. Or fill a spray bottle with stain remover solution so that you can apply it to your garments without having to blot up drips.
- Clothes should be sorted correctly. You don't want to get the stains to pass on to clean clothes while laundering them. That would be quite ironic. Similarly, you don't want colors from other brightly colored clothes to bleed onto the already stained fabric.
- Fresh stains make stain removal an easy task. Give yourself the upper hand by treating stains as promptly after they happen as possible.
- Fresh stains make stain removal an easy task. Give yourself the upper hand by treating stains as promptly after they happen as possible.
- If your stains are on a non-washable fabric, take them to the dry cleaners as soon as possible. Be sure to point out the stain to the dry cleaner and describe the nature of the stain. This makes the likelihood of success greater.
- Don't mix stain removal products. Mixing different chemicals can cause toxic odours and mixed results on your clothing.
- Stain removal can take time. Sometimes repeat treatments may be required. Be sure to thoroughly check the garment before drying to determine if a repeat treatment is necessary. Drying will cause a stain to set.
- Remember to thoroughly wash items that have treated with stain removal products to remove product residue along with the stain residue.
- Never use chlorine bleach on colored garments because the bleach will fade and discolor the fabric. Use non-chlorine, color-safe bleach if you are unsure, because the products are gentler and less toxic.
- Never use both chlorine and non-chlorine bleach together. They cancel out each other's effect.
And lastly, when all is said and done, know that some color stains just won't leave. Try the above given tips and if none of them works, make peace with the fact you may have to discard that piece of clothing and take heart in the fact that at least you had a great fun getting them spoiled while playing with loved ones.
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