How to wash greasy spots

How to wash greasy spots

It it happens to put on clothes or cloth fat spot – in household quite often. Not only animal and vegetable fats, some objects of use (for example, candles and plasticine), but also such artful finishing materials as oil paint or drying oil can become responsible for similar pollution. It is necessary without postponing to wash greasy spots, otherwise then it will be much more difficult to put thing in order.

It is required to you

  • - Warm water and soap;
  • - the absorbing powder;
  • - frying pan;
  • - the absorbing paper;
  • - iron;
  • - clean rags;
  • - cotton wool;
  • - press;
  • - brush;
  • - organic solvents;
  • - mustard;
  • - tanks for preparation of the cleaning solutions;
  • - sieve;
  • - ammonia solution;
  • - vinegar;
  • - vaseline, visceral fat or glycerin

Instruction

1. Try to wash at once after pollution the product soiled by fat in warm soap solution. While the spot is fresher, thus it is possible to remove even oil paint. However the possibility of immediate washing is not always.

2. Use any absorbent – powder will absorb fat of plant and animal origin from the surface of fabric if pollution has not managed to become outdated. As the absorbing means it is possible to take at choice pounded chalk, potato starch, talc or baby powder, burned magnesia and even the heated bank sand.

3. Heat in frying pan absorbent for the best effect of cleaning. Then fill the warmed-up powder from reverse and face side of the polluted place, cover with 2-3 layers of paper with the absorbing surface (blotter, napkin, toilet) and press something heavy. It is the best of all to keep press all night long, and since morning properly to shake out thing and to carefully clean it linen brush.

4. Mix of the absorbing substances with any organic solvent helps to wash greasy spots "without delay" well. Take that near at hand: for example, acetone, uayt-alcohol, turpentine, the purified gasoline or chloroform. Mix liquid gruel from powder and solvent and grease with it spot. In 5-6 hours wash thing in warm soap solution.

5. The first assistant to the housewife – household ammonia solution helps to remove new and old spots of fat perfectly. Enclose the put clean rag under front part of the soiled fabric and wipe pollution from reverse with the cotton wool, the wetted in sal ammoniac. After that slightly wash product in warm soapsuds or iron the place of the former pollution through the absorbing paper layer.

6. Be careful with use of solvents on delicate fabrics! Before cleaning at first test means on the imperceptible place of product. It is possible to use less aggressive make-shift. For example, by means of mustard, silk and natural wool is well purified. Part 200 gr dry powder in water before receiving uniform gruel and miss it through sieve in bucket of warm water. In a couple of hours wash the soiled thing, using the prepared mustard infusion in three steps. For rinsing of wool add to water 5 gr ammonia solution, and for silk things – as much vinegar.

7. It is more difficult to remove permanent pollution from oil paint, drying oil, varnish and pitches. It is the best of all to grease the old spots left finishing materials previously with vaseline or visceral fat for softening. It is possible to use also warmed up glycerin. In half an hour remove the softening weight and you remove spot from fat solvents which at you near at hand. Mixes of chemical means, such as gasoline and acetone (1:1) or turpentine, air and wine alcohol (2:1:10) have well proved. To give to thing attractive look, after cleaning of spots it is recommended to wash it completely and to rinse carefully at first in cold, and then in warm water.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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