Oil stains are the greatest enemy, not to mention a nightmare, for anyone who’s particular about their clothing, and even more so for anyone who ever laundered such a dirty garment and witnessed how time and time again the stains refused to come out - making the piece of clothing fit for the trash.
The solutions aren’t usually powder and liquid detergents, which promise mountains and deliver molehills, but rather clever, surprisingly effective, and amazing tricks which remove these stains rather quickly. The following 9 simple and original methods should be tried the next time you encounter a particularly stubborn oil stain on your favorite garment.
You may be familiar with cornstarch and vinegar from your home kitchen as a product for cooking, baking, seasoning and preparing various dishes, but you’ll be surprised to hear that their combination also creates a good stain remover, which can suck out any stubborn oil stains on your clothing.
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It’s a little strange to think that coke, which is often a source of stains on its own, can also be a solution to hard stains, but it turns out that it is. The reasons that coke can be such a powerful cleaning fluid are the phosphoric acid and carbon dioxide in the drink, which can dissolve and eliminate almost any stain, especially oil spots.
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If you try to remove oil stains with Aloe Vera, the same magic formula used to soothe redness and keep the skin healthy, you’ll find that the gel is also very effective for your dirty clothes, which will be as clean and clear as your skin is after using it.
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Your kids may like to use chalk, to scribble or draw along the sidewalk, but you can take advantage of these colorful writing and drawing tools in a different way that will help you remove annoying, irritating stains from your clothing.
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It turns out that this product, which is usually used as a way to clean our hair, has very effective properties in the fight against hard oil stains in clothes.
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Soda bicarbonate, used mostly in baking and cooking, also contains considerable cleaning properties against the most difficult stains.
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If you want a deadly combination against the bothersome, disturbing stains that can be made from readily available materials that you are likely to find in your kitchen and medicine cabinet, this is the method for you. The combination of rubbing alcohol and simple table salt can save the dirty clothes you were sure you’d have to throw away.
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