Some tips on how to get rid of blueberry stains
If the stains are the freshest, your chances of getting them out at home are pretty decent.
Boiling water
Give your clothes a good rinse in cool water. Then either get someone to help you or put a cloth over a pot or basin yourself. Pour boiling water over the spot of contamination until the blueberries have faded significantly. After this emergency treatment, wash the garment with soap or powder. This method usually eliminates blueberry marks quickly and easily.
Lemon and Vinegar.
If it is not possible to provide emergency treatment to the injured thing, or it may be spoiled by boiling water, prepare the following remedy. For it, we will need to mix in equal amounts of lemon juice and table vinegar. Then it is necessary to treat the stain with gauze or a cotton disc, and then throw it in the washing machine. If you use a good powder, blueberries will come off the clothes without a trace.
Sour milk
You will be surprised how well these sour milk products cope with such stains. They gently remove stains from colored clothes without threatening their color. Just soak the thing in sour milk or kefir. Have patience, in a couple of hours the blueberry traces will dissolve.
Cocktail: vinegar, powder and water
With their own hands to remove blueberries from clothes will help this trio. Add a teaspoon of vinegar to 1 liter of cold water, along with a tablespoon of laundry detergent. Leave your clothes in this solution for about an hour, then rub and rinse in cold water.
Purified Gasoline
Gasoline (only the kind used in lighters!) is good to treat wool clothes. After that, sprinkle the treated area with powder or semolina for a while.
Of course, independently wash old, dried stains from blueberries is much more difficult than fresh ones, almost impossible. But even for these cases, there are a couple of folk remedies that are still worth trying.
Ammonia and salt.
After rinsing your clothes in cold water, apply a mixture of ammonia and salt to the soiled area and walk around for half an hour. After that, wash with your hands and then finish off the hated blueberry marks with a machine wash.
By the way, have you noticed that ammonia is almost a universal helper in the fight against dirt – and suede it cleans, and red wine stains, and now blueberries as well.
Alcohol
Speaking of which, alcohol is pretty good at this task. Apply it to the desired area, after 15 minutes, wash thoroughly with laundry soap.
Don’t forget the stain remover
A good stain remover will cope even with old berry stains, and you can remove stains from white clothes with bleach. The rules are the same, apply the product for 15-30 minutes, then wash your clothes by hand and bravely send them to the machine. As practice shows, the stains do not leave a trace.