Even the most accurate person can face such a nuisance as oil stains. They appear quickly and imperceptibly - when cooking, while eating, or simply when performing a normal household routine.
After a home feast, it’s never clean: someone will drop a piece of chicken in oil, someone else will drop a little salad on the tablecloth, someone will spill juice or wine, and a careless neighbor at the table can stain your holiday outfit. Even worse, if you stained clothes or the interior of the car with technical oil. The engine oil stain is washed in the same way as a grease stain.
It’s no secret that oil marks, especially those that have been eaten in, are difficult to remove. This article will describe how and how to remove the oil stain at home. You will also learn how to remove stains with folk methods and improvised means. Of course, you can use special tools, such as Vanish stain remover, but it is not always at hand.
There are a great many ways to remove oily stains. Which one to choose? Depends on the type of fabric on which the stain was planted. All this will be discussed in the article.
Preparing tissue for stain removal
Before removing the grease stain, you need to prepare the fabric so that the thing is cleaned as efficiently as possible.
You need to do the following:
- To clear material from dirt and dust. This is best done with a special dry brush for clothes. After that, lightly moisten the brush and clean the clothes again.
- Prepare materials that will remove stains from clothing. It can be an ordinary white rag, brush or cotton pad.
- Prepare a solution with which to clean clothes. To begin with, it is worth making a solution of a weak concentration. If necessary, the concentration can be gradually increased.
- Test the solution on an inconspicuous area of tissue. It is advisable that testing be carried out on a piece of cloth that was attached to the clothing when purchasing the item.
How to remove an oil stain from clothes: some tips
- The stain is better removed from the wrong side.
- Before starting removal, place a folded sheet of white paper, a napkin, or a clean white cloth under your clothing.
- Place a cotton pad in the solution. Dampen the contours of the stain with a cotton pad, gradually moving it toward the center.
It is this processing method that will not allow the stain to spread. On the contrary, it will quickly disappear. It's time to find out how to remove oil stains.
Chalk powder
It is good to use chalk to remove stains from fabrics such as linen, silk and cotton. Remove powder from chalk as follows:
- Apply powder to a greasy stain.
- Remove the chalk after three hours with a damp cloth.
- Wash the item in warm water.
Laundry soap
It can be found in every home. Ordinary laundry soap can perfectly cope with any oily mark. How to remove stain with soap?
- Lather well the area where the grease stain is located.
- Leave the item for 12 hours (overnight).
- Wash the item in warm water.
Talc or Tooth Powder
This method is good to remove stains from woolen products. How to do it:
- Lay clothes on a flat surface.
- Treat the stain with talcum powder or tooth powder.
- Put on a trace treated with talcum powder, tracing paper or other blotting paper.
- Swipe the paper with a warm iron.
- Put a load on top (several books are possible) and leave it overnight.
Blotting paper
Such paper can save tissue of any kind and color. You only need an iron and blotting paper. How to remove a stain:
- Place paper under and on the stain.
- Iron over the paper.
The fat will begin to soak into the paper. If necessary, the paper needs to be changed.
Salt
Using ordinary salt, which is found in everyone’s kitchen, you can get rid of various stains. This is the most popular method and has been used by housewives for many years. So how to remove the stain:
- Spread generously on a greasy stain.
- Rub the salt over the stain.
- Wait for the fat to soak into it. Remove old salt and apply a new portion.
- Repeat the third point until the fat disappears from the clothes.
- Wash clothes in warm water.
Soap solution and bread crumb
An ordinary crumb of white bread can easily cope with any stain. The method is perfect for removing stains from vegetable oil. So let's get started. How to remove a greasy stain:
- Blot a greasy stain with crumb.
- Wait for the fat to soak into it.
- Wash the item with your hands in soapy water.
Ammonia
Ammonia is an ideal tool for removing stains of any complexity. Ammonia will cope with stains from engine oil, from wine and coffee.
This substance removes marks from all artificial tissues well. If you are thinking about how to remove an oil stain from a white jeans, then you already have a solution - use ammonia. Flax and cotton marks should be removed with a similar method with extreme caution.
The stain removal solution is prepared as follows: 1 teaspoon of ammonia is dissolved in 0.5 cups of water.
How to delete:
- Moisten a cotton pad in the solution.
- Blot the stain.
- Put a cotton cloth on it and pat it on top with a heated iron.
Mustard
Mustard removes stains from colored and black things well. The mustard solution is prepared as follows: put a little dry mustard in a container and add water. It should be a homogeneous gruel. How to delete:
- Apply a little mustard slurry to the oil stain.
- Wait 30 minutes.
- Wash the item in warm water.
Potato starch
This stain removal method is used only in cases where the stained fabric cannot be washed. For example, sofa upholstery or car seat. How to get rid of marks:
- Apply a little potato starch to the stain.
- Wait about 15 minutes.
- Repeat the first and second points until the stain from the surface completely disappears.
For stubborn and severe contaminants, heated starch can be used. It must be applied to the surface for 5-6 minutes.
Dishwashing liquid
Not every housewife knows that a greasy stain can be removed using a conventional dishwashing detergent. It is better that this remedy be thick. For example, you can use Fairy or AOS. A dishwasher can even cope with a stain from engine oil.
- Apply to the entire surface of the oily stain.
- Wait 20 minutes.
- Pour boiling water over the stain.
- Wash the item as usual.
Shaving foam
This method is perfect for men - they always have at hand a bottle of shaving foam. How to get rid of stains with this method:
- Apply a little shaving foam to a greasy stain.
- Wait a little time (no more than 10 minutes).
- Wash the item with your hands or in the washing machine.
How to remove an old oil stain
It was discussed above how to remove an oil stain from clothes, furniture and other things. But all of the above methods are suitable only for fresh spots. What to do when the greasy footprint on clothes for several days? The following are some effective ways to get rid of old oil stains.
- Purified turpentine or gasoline. Dampen blotting paper in this liquid (better if it is tracing paper). Put tracing paper under a greasy stain. Moisten a cotton swab or a white cloth in gasoline. Start wiping the stain from the edges to its center. Rinse clothes and then wash as usual (with your hands or in the washing machine).
- Ammonia and turpentine. Mix these substances in a 1: 1 ratio. Soak a cotton pad or white cloth in the solution. Wipe the stain with a cloth. Wait about three hours. Once the specified time has passed, wash the thing in the way that is familiar to you.
- Salt. Put in the basin the thing on which the stain. Pour hot water into this basin and add 100 grams of salt. Hold the item in such a solution until the stain disappears. As soon as a thing has been taken out of solution, wash it immediately.
- Glycerol. This tool effectively and quickly removes any old oil stains. Apply a little glycerin to the affected area of the item. Wait about 40 minutes. Wipe the area with a clean white cloth or cotton pad.
- Sawdust. Sawdust mercilessly fighting long-standing grease spots. Moisten a little sawdust in refined gasoline. Apply the resulting composition to the stain. Wait for the gas to dry. Repeat the procedure if necessary. After wash the item in warm water.
Precautions
- It is worth remembering that some of the products that you want to remove greasy stains are flammable. These include turpentine, gasoline and alcohol. Purchased stain removers are no less dangerous.
- Before removing the stain with these tools, open the windows in the apartment so that the rooms are ventilated.
- Work exclusively with gloves. Avoid contact with skin.
- Store toxic products in tightly closed containers.
- Keep solutions in hard to reach places so that they do not fall into the hands of children.
