Remove Bleach Stains
Get quick and easy tips for how to remove bleach stains from clothes with a few simple methods. Find out how to fix bleach stains on both white and colored clothing. Learn about how a bleach stain isn’t actually a stain at all.
How to Remove Bleach Stains: Materials
Bleach is in many different products, so getting a bleach stain on your favorite shirt isn’t hard. But bleach doesn’t actually stain. It permanently removes the color of the dye. So, what you see on your shirt or pants is a loss of dye. Therefore, normal cleaning methods aren’t as effective for bleach mishaps. Before you go into attack mode on a bleach stain, you need to grab a few materials.
- Rubbing alcohol
- Dish soap (preferably blue Dawn)
- White vinegar
- Fabric dye
- Permanent fabric marker
- Cotton swabs
- Baking soda
- Cloth
- Color remover
Neutralizing Bleach With Baking Soda
Before trying a bleach fixing method on your clothes, it’s important to neutralize the bleach stain. Therefore, you want to rinse the area to remove the excess bleach. After removing bleach:
- Mix baking soda and water to create a paste.
- Put the mixture on the stain.
- Allow the paste to dry.
How to Fix Bleach Stains With Dish Soap
You can also work to remove bleach stains and residue from white clothes with dish soap. You’ll need a bit of Dawn and a cloth.
- Add 3-4 squirts of Dawn to a cup of water.
- Mix the two well.
- Dip the cloth in the mixture.
- Work it over the bleach stain starting from the outside in.
- Rinse and repeat as necessary until all residue is gone.
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