How to spot wash stains on fabric
In a Pinch
When I accidentally spill something on my clothes, especially if it would make a great photo for an article, the last thing I think of is taking a picture. Using natural Castile soap is the best for removing stains, since it opens up the fiber structure, and mechanically removed the stain from the fibers.
Carry a bar of soap with you in your purse, backpack or car glovebox. Or a small 2 oz. refill of Instant Liquid Soap. Wipe off the extra debris to expose the stain. Wet it with water, and gently rub a generous abount of soap into the fabric.
Effective Tips and Tricks
Remove stains
Cleaning stains on fabric is easier than you think, if you use natural Castile Soap.
Andy is a mechanic. Usually he’s very neat. That’s not always possible with some of his mechanical endeavors. Recently, when working on one of the Mini Coopers, he got drizzled on with oil. A lot of oil. Luckily he was wearing his insulated winter suit, and the oil saturated the upper left part of the suit.
The trick to gentle stain removal is
Patience
After 15 minutes, he was ready to deal with this stain. He took the suit off, and saturated it with Instant Liquid Soap. He left the soap on the suit. It dried, and since it was still Winter, he continued to wear the suit, when he needed it. After about 4-5 days, he was ready to be without the suit for a few days, and we threw it in the washing machine.
Use the presoak setting on your washer
Slow Laundry
We have and small Asko washer, so his giant suit was 1 full load. I put in a normal amount of our old fashioned laundry soap, and set the temperature to a medium warm, about 140 ℉.
My washer also has a presoak setting, which lets the wash soak for about 15 minutes, before getting to the regular washing cycle. I used a medium temperature, since the suit lining is polyester, and it can melt causing other problems, like putting micro plastics into the water supply.
Castile Soap is amazing
1 soap cleans all
It came out beautifully, and you would never know there was a 4-5 “ in diameter black car grease stain there. Car grease is oil soluble. When cleaning with natural soap, oil based stains are usually easier to remove.