Removing Blood stains with hydrogen peroxide?
Question:Okay so one of my sibilings had a car accident on saturday. He got a little cut up and blood got on his gray polo and his jeans. We havent washed them because we wanted to find something that would completely remove the stain. Will hydrogen peroxide remove the stains? How do i apply it? Thank you in advance!
Answers:
You can apply the hydrogen peroxide directly to the clothes! However, you may want to do a test spot first to make sure it doesn't bleach (I had a pair of jeans that happened to).
Wash the garment after you apply the peroxide in cold water (just like you normally would for a blood stain) either by hand, or I use the washing machine. Double check it has been removed completely before you dry it in a dryer.
HOWEVER, the cool thing about peroxide is it will work to remove blood even after the garment has been dryed...it might just take longer with a little more effort. (Yes, this worked for me with something I had forgotton had blood on it and dryed it.)
It probably would, but it still might also slightly bleach the clothes. Using cold water and some shampoo is probably the safer way to go. Club soda or baking soda also help.
Tide with bleach. Make a paste & let it soak all day, keeping it wet. Then wash it but if the stain is still there don't dry it. This will set the stain in.
Soak the shirt in cold water for hours, then wash in cold, keep washing in cold until shadow gone, then dry.
My kids are always falling or having bike wrecks, etc and getting a little blood on their clothes - Spray and Wash will take the blood right out. Just let it soak on the clothes for several hours and then reapply... wash on regular in your washing machine and VIOLA!! Good as new!
This site explains in detail how to get rid of blood stains:
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/yates/80...
Try washing soda--Arm and Hammer brand, in a yellow box (in with the weird laundry stuff like blueing and Borax.)
I recently discovered it, and that stuff WORKS. No lie, it got rid of old pit stains from like 10 years ago, and it says it works on blood, too (though I haven't bled on my clothes recently, so I haven't had a chance to try it.)
You can pre-soak with it or use it as a laundry additive. I've never used peroxide--I guess it would work.
But I'm sold on washing soda--I'd say, give that a try and use the peroxide if it doesn't work. But peroxide is the bleach in hair products...it does bleach stuff. Shouldn't be a problem on gray, since gray is often colorfast, but you never know. Washing soda isn't a bleach per se, though, it's a "laundry booster"--it increases the alkalinity of your wash water which helps break down stains and wash them away (chlorine bleach also increases the alkalinity of your wash water, but it breaks down dyes as well as stains.)
Try the washing soda. You might be surprised!
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A weird but true blood remover is your own saliva. For some reason, you can spit on a blood stain that is your blood, and it will lift it. Yucky but true. In the case of you sibling, he would have to spit on it though this works better when the blood has not dried it still works.
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