Chocolate is a wonderful treat that gives a lot of positive emotions, which can not be said about the occasional stains on clothes left by this brown sweet mass. We learn about how to remove stains from chocolate from this article.
How to get a fresh stain from chocolate from clothes?
Of course, it's easier to fight with any dirt, until they have not caught up. Recently delivered chocolate stain is removed in one of the following ways:
- Treat the soiled area with ammonia, or rather with its solution. The earlier the better.
- A small and fresh stain of chocolate can be washed in a steep salt solution followed by rinsing in running water.
- On products made of silk and wool, recent stains of chocolate can be removed, moistened with a solution of soap and ammonia (for 1 liter of water 2 teaspoons of alcohol) with a cotton swab. After that, you wash the thing in the usual way.
How to remove an old stain from chocolate?
When the spot was not immediately detected, or it was not possible to remove it in time, it is necessary to use "heavy artillery". You can help one of the ways:
- On white cloth, you can try hydrogen peroxide : soak the stain and hold for fifteen minutes, then rinse with non-corrosive water.
- Oxalic acid can also help. Prepare the solution: mix half a teaspoon with a glass of water and put it on the stain. Then rinse the thing in a solution of soapy water and ammonia (2 tsp for each liter of water). Finally, you need to rinse out the thing under running water.
- With a woolen or silk fabric, an old stain can be removed with glycerine warmed to 40 degrees. Apply it to the stain, and after 15 minutes rinse with warm water.
- Than you can remove a stain from chocolate from a dark fabric: mix twenty parts of glycerin, one part of ammonia, twenty parts of water. Stained place rubbed with a mixture, wipe with a cloth and rinse off in warm water.