Thursday, April 23, 2015

THINGS YOUR LAUNDRYMAN WILL NEVER TELL YOU 5


How to Remove Blood Stains
You must have had some encounter from blood stains. It could be from a cut finger, bleeding nose, or menstrual flow on your favorite white cotton panties. When dried, blood stains could be very hard to remove because on exposure to air, the hemoglobin in the blood would bind with the fibers in clothing. It is easiest to remove blood when it is still wet.

1.      Saline solution: The best and easiest way to remove a blood stain, especially fresh, is with saline (salt water). The Red Blood Cells are filled with protein (high osmolality) and need to be in osmotic balance with their surrounding fluid. If exposed to water (low osmolality), the water will rush into the cells, bursting them. A saline solution (higher osmolality) would tend to shrink them, making the blood more removable from the fabric.
Make a saline solution from 1 cup of salt with 2 quarts water. Let the stain soak in the solution for 30 minutes. Thereafter, blot off the stain carefully with a cotton cloth dipped in the salt solution. This will remove the stain with no damage to the fabric, and no one would tell it ever got stained before.
2.      Hydrogen Peroxide: If the above method does not work for you, you may as well want to try dabbing a little bit of hydrogen peroxide on the stain and rinse. Hydrogen peroxide can wear down the fibers of your clothing and weaken the fabric, so you might want to be careful when applying it. When the stain is removed, wash the clothing in cold water with detergent or mild soap depending on the specifications of the fabric.
3.      Other methods: Other methods recommended include soaking the stain in milk overnight and then washing. 
You may as well try spitting on it, especially if it is your own blood. It may work even better to rub with both spit and mild soap simultaneously. Sounds bizarre. Ain’t it?
NB: Never use warm water. Arm water speeds up the setting process and makes the blood stain more difficult to remove.

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