Nothing invigorates like the aroma of fresh coffee. Many residents of our country simply can not imagine their morning awakening without this drink. Each coffee lover at least once spilled a couple of drops or half a cup of coffee on his own clothes. Surely such an incident made a lot of nervousness. What to do if a stain from coffee has formed on your favorite blouse than how to remove it at home?
First aid for dirty things
The success of removing stubborn stains from tissue depends on how quickly action is taken. Immediately after the drink has been spilled, you can sprinkle the area of contamination with ordinary table salt. An alternative is to immediately soak a thing in warm water. Leave the item for 10-15 minutes, and then wash it with the usual product. You can be lucky if the fabric is linen and the coffee stain slowly spreads on it. How to remove such pollution? Stretch the stained area in a small saucepan or wash basin. Pour boiling water over the stain until it completely disappears. After that, you can start washing. Remember one simple and most important rule: you can’t rub fresh coffee stains. If you start rubbing dirt, you will only achieve that the boundaries of the blots expand, and it will be even more difficult to remove it.
The salvation of white things
"How to remove stains of coffee from white clothes?" - a matter of concern to many housewives. Prepare a soap solution and soak the affected item for 10 minutes. After this time, rinse the clothes well in a solution. Then soak the stain
with bleach or any concentrated bleach. Leave on for a few minutes, then rinse the clothes in clean water. Repeat rinsing 2-3 times, changing the water. Caution: this method is not suitable for synthetics, silk and wool. It is better to never wash the listed fabrics with bleaches, which contain chlorine. If you do not know how to remove a coffee stain from white, try using hydrogen peroxide. The antiseptic known to everyone is an excellent bleach. Soak a cotton swab or cotton swab in hydrogen peroxide and carefully handle the contamination. Soon there will be no trace of the spot.
Universal ways to remove coffee stains
Coffee stains may also appear on delicate fabrics
. How to remove such pollution from wool or silk? Prepare a saturated soapy solution and add
ammonia to it at the rate of 3-5 teaspoons per liter of water. Try to moisten a cotton swab or sponge in the resulting composition and carefully clean the stain. You can not rub, move with careful soaking movements from the edge to the center of pollution. Another delicate stain remover recipe: mix alcohol, water and ammonia in a ratio of 20: 20: 1. Use a cloth or swab dipped in the mixture to clean the soiled item. It is not difficult to clean clothes made of synthetic fabrics. Coffee stains can be removed by soaking the stained thing in water with the addition of alcohol. At 0.5 liters of liquid, you need to add a tablespoon of a medical antiseptic solution. You can replace alcohol with vodka, but in this case, increase the dosage by about half. In the finished solution, soak the thing and rinse well before washing with powder.
How to remove coffee spatter from your favorite jeans
Jeans are pants that everyone has in their wardrobe. But what if you stained your favorite pants during breakfast? You can get a coffee stain on jeans, but it is advisable to take on the salvation of the thing immediately after you stain it. Add a few drops of ammonia to clean water. Dampen the brush in the resulting solution and rub it with dirt. Clean until the stain comes off, then remember to wash your pants. This cleaning method is suitable not only for jeans, but also for any other items of clothing and interior made of denim.
Home Textiles and Carpets
Pouring coffee on the carpet or upholstery - what could be worse? Indeed, it is problematic to completely stain the floor covering or upholstered furniture . But do not panic, there is a solution. If you spilled coffee on a carpet or sofa, the first step is to gently blot the stain. You can use paper towels or an ordinary towel for this purpose. Prepare a home stain remover: for this, dissolve one teaspoon of glycerin in 500 ml of water. The resulting mixture should be well wet stain and leave for 10 minutes. Then rinse the contamination with clean water and let dry. What should I do if a coffee stain forms on the carpet? How to withdraw it in the absence of glycerin at hand? You can try using water with the addition of ammonia. Good results are given by many factory stain removers. If your carpet has a very high pile or is made of natural wool, it makes sense to take it to dry cleaning. At home, you are unlikely to remove the stain from such a product, but you can spoil it.
Is it possible to remove dried old stains
The most difficult to clean are considered dried stubborn stains. But if the soiled thing is really dear to you, try to save it. Soak clothes before washing in a solution of sodium chloride. Leave to soak for at least 2 hours, and preferably all night. After that, wash the item in hot or warm water, choosing the temperature regime according to the type of fabric. Old coffee stains can be removed by mixing finely ground table salt and glycerin until a homogeneous gruel is formed. This mass is applied to the pollution and left for 10-15 minutes, then rinse and go to washing.
Oxalic acid fights coffee stains effectively . Be careful, this product can damage brightly colored fabrics. Oxalic acid is ideal for white things. Dissolve half a teaspoon of the active ingredient in a glass of water. Soak the stain with the resulting composition, after a few minutes, rinse the thing well. A popular recipe for stain removal solution prepared from oxalic and citric acid is also popular. In this case, a teaspoon of citric acid is added to the above recipe.