Stains and Vinegar, the untold rivalry for fabric
Vinegar, when used for cooking, gives you an aromatic and delicious food. But vinegar has the upper hand and is a proffered boon when it comes to cleaning stains on the fabric. Vinegar used with baking soda and detergent is the best defense strategy against the continuously attacking stains.
Cooking stains are the most common stains if you are the ones who cook in your home. Juicy vegetables like tomatoes leave stains, which are usually hard to remove. To remove cooking stains, soak the fabric stain in vinegar for some time and then wash the fabric regularly.
Stains on fabric
Coffee and tea stains are more usual than any stains. They are even too hard to remove as they easily become a part of the fabric. Soak the cloth in vinegar and leave it to dry in the sun till the stain is no more. Mustard stains are not that common but are annoying to watch. If you remember the pilot episode in the famous series Breaking Bad, the protagonist is bothered about the doctor’s tie, which has a mustard stain than the bad news he is conveying. That’s how annoying they are. Removing this annoying piece of stain is as irritating as it looks. Soaking the cloth won’t do. Sometimes this might not work, which then forces you to add some detergent and then wash thoroughly. Sometimes the stain still exists and forces you to repeat the procedure multiple times.
The grass, mud, blood, and sweat stains. To remove sweat stains is most simple. All you need to do is pour some vinegar on the stain and rub the stain. If the stain still exists, use some salt to rub it off. Any salt will do. Grass stains need some brushing! You need to pour some vinegar and baking soda and rub coarsely with a toothbrush. After the brushing, wash the cloth and dry it in the sun.
When it comes to blood stains, you need to act fast or the stain will remain. You need to pour some undiluted vinegar and allow the vinegar to soak in for a few minutes and wash immediately. If there is a delay in washing the stain, the stain might fade but remains. For mud stains, you need to soak the cloth in lukewarm water and pour some undiluted vinegar with some detergent and rinse thoroughly.
Types of stains
If you have kids at home, you are familiar with crayon stains, ink stains, paint stains, and vomit stains. Crayon stains are to be rubbed with vinegar with a toothbrush and washing them will do the job. Ink stains are very stubborn. Spraying hairspray on the stain and cleaning the hairspray off the stain with vinegar helps remove the stain. Paint stains need a paste of vinegar and baking soda and a bucket full of detergent water. The paste should be rubbed on fabric. To get rid of the stains it is soaked and rubbed in the bucket of detergent water.
Vomit stains generally go off when soaked in water. But sometimes when the vomit is too dried, then it becomes a hard stain, and vinegar is required. The garment soaked in water is rubbed by vinegar and then washed thoroughly. Many different stains are removed easily when vinegar steps into the game. Vinegar used differently for each different scenario helps remove different stains. Experimenting with the usage of vinegar can result in many new approaches to cleaning the stains. The stains are soaked in vinegar or rubbed with vinegar or brushed with a toothbrush.
Hard stains
The distinction between simple and hard stains is visible.
Dried up stains are usually hard stains as they remained on the fabric for a long time. Hard stains need brushing and drying up in the sun after applying the vinegar, whereas simple stains need soaking and rinsing thoroughly. Few simple stains vanish after using vinegar, but few stains also need detergent or baking soda with vinegar. The application and usage are different but vinegar is common in all the methods of removing stains. Highly concentrated vinegar fades the clothing and leaves a faded white mark. Hence it is safe to declare that vinegar is the biggest rival of stains. It is entirely unheard and untold
but yet, it works!