Berry stains are difficult to remove. But nothing is impossible. There are several recipes on how to remove stains from cherries without resorting to dry cleaning. In most cases, improvised means that can be found in most kitchens and in home medicine cabinets will help. Let’s consider all effective recipes, and you already decide which of them suits you better.
Folk recipes will help
Any stain is best cleaned if it is fresh. If the fabric is characterized by a stable color coating, it should be easily removed from the cherry juice on it with the help of steep boiling water. To do this, stretching the contaminated product over a wide vessel – a pan or basin – pour boiling water over the stain from a kettle. The pollution will soon disappear.
The disadvantage of this method: it is not suitable for fabrics with unstable colors that shed.
Other ways to remove a cherry stain:
- Table salt. A moistened layer of salt is applied to the contaminated area. Leave for 10 minutes, then wash in hot water with dishwashing liquid or stain remover.
- Fresh cherry traces are well removed with an ammonia solution.
- A solution of hydrogen peroxide in water will remove cherry juice on light-colored clothes, and peroxide concentrate can be used to clean snow-white clothes.
- For colored fabrics, one egg yolk should be mixed with 50 grams of glycerin. Spread this mixture on the stains, leave it on the fabric for several hours, and then wash it off in warm water.
- Prepare a solution of acetic acid (2 parts) in water (5 parts). Pour a small amount of the resulting mixture on the contamination and, after standing for about half an hour, wash the product.
- You can mix table vinegar with freshly squeezed lemon juice in equal amounts and rub the stain with a sponge or cotton swab. So that a halo does not form around it, it is necessary to get wet, starting from the edges to the center. After that, wash the thing. This mixture is able to remove cherry from white clothes. If necessary, the procedure can be repeated. This method will also help with removed mulberry spots .
- If it is possible to use whey, then you should dip a piece of clothing contaminated with cherry juice into it. If there is no serum, ordinary milk will help, in which it is soaked for 20 minutes. Suitable for processing linen and cotton fabrics.
- An alcoholic solution of citric acid can remove cherry from clothes. The ingredients are taken in the ratio of 2 g of “lemon” per 20 g of alcohol. Heat the mixture slightly (up to 40oC) and immerse the contaminated areas of clothing in it. Keep until the stains disappear. Then the product should be thoroughly rinsed first in heated water, then in ammonia solution (1%), then again in water with the addition of a few drops of vinegar or a small amount of citric acid.
- Ordinary laundry soap is a reliable cleaning agent. He is able to remove even old stains from cherries and cherries. To do this, they should be well soaped and left for 15 minutes. After that, the damaged product is poured with boiling water for half an hour and washed in the usual way.
Household chemistry: what to choose?
Fresh cherry or cherry stains can be removed with ordinary washing powder. It is worse when the stains have already eaten into the fabric. Then you will have to turn to household chemicals for help – bleaches or stain removers. The rules of their use are indicated on the label.
Bleach should be chosen based on whether it is suitable for this type of fabric or not, and paying attention to the presence of chlorine in its composition, which negatively affects the color of the product.
A better choice if the action of the bleach is based on active oxygen. It will help not only remove traces of cherries, but also preserve the original appearance of clothes.
However, bleach is not suitable for colored clothes. In this case, the only way out is to buy a high-quality stain remover, especially since this product is equally suitable for processing white products, and from a wide variety of materials.
To remove cherry or cherry stains, you need to choose a stain remover for the appropriate type of fabric and use it, following the instructions exactly.