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Top Stain Removal Tips• Though it is likely too late for the item you are concerned about now, in the future save all fabric material and fabric stain treatment information provided by the manufacturers (and/or installers) for important items you buy. See The Most Important Stain Removal Tip for details. • Read the fabric care tags on the garment, in hang tags and other literature for the garment, in the instructions provided by the manufacturer and/or installer for other items. That will tell you if there is some possibility of cleaning the item yourself, or if you should call a stain removal service to come, or if you have to take the item to a dry cleaner. • Attend to stains immediately. Stains over 24 hours old are much harder to remove than fresh stains. • Often, you may have to repeat a stain removing procedure. Don't give up after the first try.
• If it is OK to use water as part of a stain removal process, remember NOT to use hot water. Hot water often will set and make impossible to remove a stain that otherwise might have been possible to remove. Use cool to warm water at most. This will vary by fabric and stain type. Note, as an aside, that most detergents are not effective with cold water, though. • If washing a heavily soiled or stained item, wash it separately from other items. This avoids soil or possible dyes from the stain depositing on other items. In any event, if using a washing machine, do not overload it, and use as short a cycle as possible.
• Again, remember that heat is your enemy in treating stains. Air dry rather than dryer dry the item after treating it. After it has dried, inspect it to see if the stain has been completely removed or not. If not, you can try to remove it again. But, if you have dryer dried the item, that makes it extremely less likely that the remnants of the stain can be removed. • Similarly, do not iron an item until you are sure the stain has been removed completely (or you have given up on trying to remove it).
• If you have taken a stained article to the dry cleaners, inspect it immediately upon retrieving it. Make sure the stain has been removed, and if not, what further, if anything, can be done about it. These tips are what have occurred to me as the top ones. Perhaps others you may consider important are not on this page. I may add others in the future. In the meantime look for the possibility of those points being discussed in other articles on this site. See the right sidebar for more stain removal tip articles.
Disclaimer
Note that many stains cannot be removed. Some stain removal chemicals,
agents, or even commercial stain removal products can damage or
discolor fabrics, making the result even worse.
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