7 Tips for Removing Mold Stains From Fabric.
Sometimes mold stains may arise on fabrics.
In particular on the clothes that you put in cardboard before the beautiful season and that you store in a cellar or any other humid place.
How to remove these musty stains from your fabrics? No need to throw them away or use the dry cleaning service!
Here are 7 effective tips for removing mold stains:
1. Baking soda
As always, baking soda can save us, on this one;):
- Mix 1 tablespoon of baking soda with 10 cl of water.
- Dab the stains with a clean sponge or a soft cloth soaked in this mixture.
- Wash the laundry normally.
This tip is perfect on recent spots.
2. Marseille soap
- Rub the stain directly with Marseille soap.
- Machine normally.
Again, if the stain is recent, it starts the first time.
3. White vinegar
Combine it with baking soda and lemon, for more resistant stains:
- Mix 1 tablespoon of baking soda with 25 cl of white vinegar.
- Add the juice of 1 lemon.
- Spray this mixture with a clean sprayer or soak the stain with a soft cloth.
- Put the stained laundry to dry, preferably in the sun.
- Wash it as usual.
4. Borax
Borax powder, do you know? It is a powder soap very effective on mold stains.
- Mix 1 dose of borax powder with 2 doses of very hot water.
- Pat the stain with a clean sponge or cloth.
- Let it dry.
- Machine wash.
If you don't have any more, or want to check out borax powder, you can find some here.
5. Bleach
Obviously, this trick only works on non-fragile white fabric.
- Soak a sponge in bleach.
- Rub directly on the stain.
- Wash normally.
If you have colored laundry, but cotton or non-fragile fabric, you can dilute the bleach in 1 liter of hot water. Try on a hidden piece, you never know, it can discolor.
And keep in mind that bleach is toxic to the environment.
6. Hydrogen peroxide
On your colored fabrics, it will be less "dangerous" than bleach.
- Spray hydrogen peroxide on the stain.
- Wash normally.
Warning: use hydrogen peroxide diluted to 3%.
7. Ammonia
This product is the most effective on this kind of stain. Provided that your laundry is not too fragile.
This product is dangerous, so use gloves.
- Dilute a little ammonia in water.
- Pat with a sponge or a clean cloth until the stain disappears.
If your stains are heavy, you can spray the diluted ammonia directly on the garment. You then wipe off the excess with a sponge before washing the laundry.
Be sure to follow the instructions on your ammonia bottle.
Results
And there you have it, the mold stains on your fabrics are all gone :-)
Not a trace: they are like new!
Now you know how to clean a moisture-pricked fabric and remove mold stains from laundry and textiles.
And these anti-mold tips work for musty stains on cotton, synthetic fabrics, pillows and sheets, a T-shirt or a shower curtain.
Your turn...
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