Important:
Before removing a stain with a solvent or similar product test it on an "invisible" point - at the back
of the hem - to be sure neither the fabric nor colour are impaired.
Ballpoint and felt pen:
Beer:
Blood:
Bright specks:
Burn marks:
Butter:
Coffee/cocoa:
Dampstains and mould: In case of light-coloured cotton or linen fabrics, spread with a paste consisting of calcium
Egg white:
Egg yolk:
Fat:
Fruit juice:
Fruit stains:
Grass:
Grease:
Icecream:
Ink:
Iodine:
Lipstick:
Milk:
Nail polish:
Red wine:
Rust:
Shoe polish:
Soot marks:
Spinach:
Sweat:
Tar:
Tea:
Urine:
Wax:
Wine:
Yellowed fabrics:
Colours run / Fading:
Follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Rub out with alcohol, soak up dissolved dyestuff, wash out remaining marks with gall
soap.
Rinse with lukewarm water, then machine-wash.
Soak in cold water, rub stains out with gall soap, then machine-wash.
Brush out with vinegar water.
Drip vinegar water on stains, allow to act for several hours, then rinse well with clear
water.
Wash in lukewarm soapsuds, on delicate fabrics remove stain with ammonia solution or
gall soap.
Soak in cold water, then wash out with warm (in case of insensitive fabrics with hot)
soapy water.
carbonate, soap and water, allow to act, wash out well or rub out with gall soap, rinse
and then machine-wash.
Rinse in cold water, then machine-wash.
Soak in lukewarm soapsuds, then wash out.
Wash out with warm soapsuds or gall soap.
Sprinkle with salt and wash out with warm water or rub out with gall soap, then machine-
wash.
see "Fruit juice"
Rub out with gall soap, then machine-wash.
Rub out with cooking oil or margarine, wash out in soapsuds, remove possibly remaining
marks with balsam turpentine or gall soap.
Remove with lukewarm water or gall soap.
Sprinkle thickly with salt, shake out after acting, treat with vinegar or gall soap, rinse well
and machine-wash.
Moisten, then rub out with the cut surface of a raw potato, rinse with cold water, repeat
until the stain disappears, then machine-wash.
Wash out with gall soap.
Rinse with cold water, then machine-wash.
Dissolve with acetone (Be careful: not to be used for acetate or triacetate!), then
machine-wash.
Sprinkle with salt, allow to act, shake out, then wash or treat with gall soap.
Drip lemon juice on light-coloured fabrics until stain disappears, rinse well or put fabric in
water containing some glycerine, then wash out with soapy water.
Dissolve with balsam turpentine, then wash out with soapsuds.
Never wash off! At first, blow off the loose soot, then sprinkle with salt, allow to act, and
wash out with soapy water or gall soap.
Rub off with the cut surface of a raw potato, then machine-wash.
Soak in vinegar water, rinse well and machine-wash.
Rub out with cooking oil or margarine, wash out in soapsuds, remove possibly remaining
greasy marks with ammonia solution or gall soap.
Wash out with soapsuds or gall soap.
Wash out with soapsuds or rub out with thinned ammonia solution or gall soap.
Crease fabric several times in order to loosen the wax and scratch off carefully, then
iron out with care using blotting paper or tissue paper until the wax has been soaked
up completely. Rub out possible remaining marks with ethyl alcohol, then wash out in
soapsuds.
see "Beer"
Wash with detergent and a handful of salt (does not work well on synthetics).
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