You can imagine your complicated feelings when you are wearing a nice outfit and enjoying lunch outside, but oil stains drip on your body. Or when cooking at home, even wearing an apron cannot resist the attack of oil stains. These spots are always so irritating and annoying, as if to tell people that you don’t pay attention to your clothes, and everyone knows that it is not that easy to get rid of them.
Moreover, oil stains can condense quickly, and condensed oil stains are more stubborn than liquid oil stains. If you find it troublesome, you can send it to a dry cleaner. This can indeed free your hands, but their bills are always not so pretty. Here we recommend a few good ways to clean oil stains at home, so that you can easily remove irritating spots on clothes at home.
Oil stains are special compared to other stains. Other stains may be washed away by washing with water, but oil stains are insoluble in water, so they cannot be washed away well by simply washing with water. And some oil stains may have been too long before you discovered them. The older the oil stains stay on the clothes, the harder it will be to clean them, and they may even completely penetrate and become impossible to clean.
Tools needed
Used toothbrush
Mild dish soap
Baking Soda
white vinegar
chalk
Warm water
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Clean up with dish soap
This method is what I use most often and is what my mother taught me when I was very young. And it’s very convenient, just use your most commonly used dish soap in the kitchen to clean it. Dish soap can remove grease stains from bowls, so it is also effective for grease stains on clothes. Of course, it’s best to choose a mild dish soap to avoid damaging your clothes.
Step 1: Soak the clothes in warm water, squeeze in a little detergent, and let it sit for two to three minutes.
Step 2: Find the oil stains on the clothes and squeeze a pea-sized amount of dish soap over the oil stains. Dip your unused toothbrush in water and scrub the stained areas until the stains fade and a rich lather is produced.
Step 3: Rinse the clothes in clean water and air dry. At this time, you can check again whether the oil stains are completely removed. Then dry it
Clean up with baking soda
Baking soda is a powerful assistant in the kitchen that everyone should have at home. It can not only be used for baking, but also a cleaning expert at home. It can be used to clean countertops, kettles and sewers. Yes, it can also be used to clean oil stains on clothes.
Step 1: Baking soda has good adsorption capacity. Now sprinkle baking soda on top of the oil stain and let it sit for about an hour. Let the baking soda fully absorb the excess oil.
Step 2: After an hour, add laundry detergent directly to the baking soda, then rub it or use a toothbrush to gently brush it. Repeat this action until the oil stain is completely gone.
Step 3: When the oil stains are thoroughly cleaned, rinse under running water, rinse and dry in the sun.
Clean up with white vinegar
Vinegar, like baking soda, can be used not only for seasoning but also as a cleaning product. Vinegar is a great disinfectant and its acid melts grease very well. But if you don’t like the smell of vinegar, you can ignore this and refer to other options.
Step 1: Pour vinegar into water to dilute it in a ratio of 1:3. Then soak the clothes in it for an hour.
Step 2: After an hour, gently brush the oil stain with a toothbrush until the oil stain disappears or becomes lighter. It is not recommended to add laundry detergent at this time because the acidic substances will react with the chemical components in the laundry detergent.
Step 3: Wash the clothes in clean water, then put the clothes in the laundry and wash them.
Use chalk to clean up
You may not have thought that chalk can also clean up oil stains. When you have a small area of oil stains on your body, you can use this method. Its principle is the same as that of baking soda, which can effectively absorb grease in clothes, but it is not easy to use on a large area.
Step 1: Shape the chalk into a powder shape, place it on top of the oil stain, and let it sit for half an hour to allow the oil stain to be fully absorbed by the chalk.
Step 2: Check the status of the powder. If the powder clumps, continue to repeat the previous action and continue to sprinkle chalk until the powder no longer clumps, which also means that no excess oil is absorbed.
Step 3: Clean the chalk and put the clothes in the washing machine to wash them.
Although oil stains are more difficult to deal with than other stains, as long as they are treated in time and treated with the correct method, the clothes can still be restored to their original appearance. The most important thing is that when wearing light-colored clothes, you must be more careful than usual to prevent the attack of oil stains when eating and cooking.