Than to wash a fat stain from a jacket?
With such a rhythm of life, as now, we sometimes do everything in vanity, on the run. In this case, the risk of staining your favorite clothes increases. If you eat on the go, hurrying to work in the morning, or have a snack in between business hours while driving, grease stains on clothes are provided.
Ways to remove fat
Bold trail left on your jacket. Just washing it in this case does not help, and not all jackets can be subjected to washing. The easiest way - to pass the thing in the dry cleaning. But it is expensive and not fast. Consider what means and methods can remove the traces of fat from the surface of the product at home.
The work will require the following tools:
- Cotton pads.
- Cloth napkins.
- Sponges and soft brush.
- Iron.
Stain removers:
- Dishwashing liquid. This product is directly intended to combat various fats. Why not use it for fabric? Apply dish liquid to the stain. Using a sponge or cloth, wipe a little into the fabric and let it soak. Then wash in the washing machine with the addition of standard powder.
- Laundry soap also copes well with oily contaminants. They can be used in several different ways:
- Soap the soiled surface, let it soak for a few minutes, wash the stain, then rinse the jacket in a typewriter.
- Using a grater, chop the soap and sprinkle the contamination with the resulting chips. Leave for about an hour for the soap to start working. Then it is necessary to remove the composition from the surface.
- Dilute soap chips in water and saturate it with a stain. Wait until the soap starts to work. After, a white cloth wipe off the dirt. If necessary, wash the thing.
- Stain removers. Not bad copes with traces of fat on the material of the jacket special stain removers, in a huge assortment presented in stores. "Vanish" or budget "Antipyatnin" is applied to the damaged area. If the pollution is old, you need to give time to the composition to work, rub with a cloth. Then wash the product with water and powder.
- Starch. It should be mixed with water and put the paste on the fabric, after half an hour, remove the residue with a sponge. If there is no starch powder in the house, you can use an ordinary potato. It should be cut in half and wipe the stain with juice on the surface until it is completely removed.
- Another effective method is exposure. ammonia. It is diluted with water in the ratio of 1 to 3. It is necessary to moisten a cotton swab with this solution and clean the jacket. Remove residual liquid with a cloth.
- Dentifrice mixed with water and applied to the stain. Then the material is ironed with a hot iron through a sheet of white paper. Paper is removed at least 20 hours later.
- Lemon copes well with the remnants of fat on clothes. Its juice is squeezed out for pollution. If necessary, you can rub with a sponge or a soft brush and allow to dry.
- Soda good effect on fresh spots. Apply it to the surface, leave for an hour so that it stretches the fat, and remove with a brush.
- Salt also help out even with long-term pollution. Put a jacket in a basin with water and add 5 tablespoons of salt. We are waiting for 20-30 minutes and wash in the machine with the usual powder.
- You can resort to help gasoline. Better to put a white cloth under the stain. Apply gasoline with a cotton pad. Then wash the thing to get rid of the smell.
Old stains and heavily impacted tissue contamination may not be affected by improvised means.And for those who like to keep chemicals at home, the following method is suitable: mix half a cup of ether and half cup of magnesia and spread the resulting composition onto a stain. After removing the odor, remove residues from the surface of the jacket.
Features of cleaning different types of fabrics
Not every jacket can be washed or stroked. Therefore it is necessary to use only those methods and means that do not harm your material:
- Bolonevaya jacket. Such products are very popular in our time. They are inexpensive, have a large selection of colors and styles. A distinctive feature of the material is that it is synthetic. Such fabrics can not be affected by strong heat, aggressive stain removers, but in most cases can be washed. Thus, the iron impact on the jacket of such material is not worth it. To combat the fat, we choose all benign methods - soap, powder, Antipyatnin, soda. The best tool in the fight against fatty pollution on the bolonyvoy jacket is table vinegar. They can rub the desired area, and then wash the product to get rid of the smell.
Places in which the jacket shines from oily shine (around the neck, at the ends of the sleeves) can also be treated with acetic acid.
- Leather Products. The skin and any of its substitutes are very capricious in cleaning. They can not be erased in any case, processed with stiff brushes and rubbed aggressively. It is more logical to remember about dry cleaning. But if you still ventured to remove stains at home, you can use several ways:
- Starch mix with gasoline in a ratio of 1: 4. Apply the mixture on the contaminated surface and leave to dry. After this, the residues are carefully, without pressing, removed with a sponge.
- You can use medical alcohol. Saturate them with a cotton swab and wipe a greasy stain.
- For old stains, you can prepare such a solution: mix the denatured alcohol with turpentine in a 1: 1 ratio and add a few drops of glycerin. You can clean the jacket with a cloth dampened with the resulting solution.
- Sprinkle the dirt with flour. Leave for an hour the powder on the pollution, and then remove.
- The laundry soap in this case is also a universal and indispensable assistant. Clean the jacket with dissolved soap and leave to dry.
Now the stores offer a wide range of cleaning products for leather goods. Do not neglect the progress, and you should try to use them.
- Suede and tanned leather. Suede jackets can also be treated with flour. But there is another folk remedy. It is necessary to prepare a solution of milk, soda and ammonia. Stir a small spoon of soda powder in a glass of milk. It must be heated to react better. Add 2 drops of ammonia. The greasy surface is treated with a tissue cloth dipped in the resulting liquid. The fat from the tanned jacket can be eliminated with a regular eraser. In the skin care and suede salons, special erasers are sold to clean this type of fabric.
The main thing is that the surface of the suede jacket remains dry during such processing.
- Down jackets. This type of clothing is especially popular in the Russian winter. Bright and warm jackets, short and long, with natural fur and inserts of fabrics, flood the cities with the arrival of cold weather. The main disadvantage of such a product is the impossibility of washing. After getting into the water, the natural filler can pile up, and the product will lose its presentable appearance. In this case, the fat must be removed without large amounts of water. Laundry detergent and laundry soap are well suited for pinpoint washing. At the same time, try not to wet the thing abundantly.
If the stain is strongly ingrained, try to pre-apply the powder from the chalk to the fabric, leave it to work for an hour, and only then rub it. Drying is possible only naturally.
Tips
When cleaning, you need to follow some recommendations in order to remove fat most quickly and efficiently without spoiling the thing:
- When exposed to a jacket with potent agents (vinegar, gasoline, alcohol), you should work in special gloves.
- If possible, remove stains as soon as possible after contamination.
- Any means first try on the seamy side of the product or in an inconspicuous part to avoid damage.
- Read the cleaning instructions on the label. This will help keep your product in its original form.
- To prevent fat from spreading over the larger surface of the jacket, you need to start processing from the edges to the middle of the spot.
You should always start the treatment with the application of a cleaning agent, and only then wash the product or wet it with water. This prevents the spread of fat through the material.
How to remove a fat spot at home, see the following video.