Removing Sweat Stains

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There are few things that will make you want to get rid of your clothes faster than unsightly sweat stains spreading out from the armpit area and down the spine. Replacement costs of severely stained clothing is prohibitive to most people and professional dry cleaning is not much better.

A way of successfully cleaning the stains at home needs to be attempted.

First off, determine if that stain is actually caused by your sweat or if it is a result of the antiperspirant or deodorant you use. A yellow to greenish stain that has a slightly brittle texture is usually a sweat stain. If it is whitish or oily, you must treat it for the antiperspirant residue.

While one would think bleach could return that clean white color to your clothes, it will in fact react to the chemicals in the stain and not only set then in permanently, but can even darken the sweat stains further.

A liquid laundry detergent that works on protein based stains or has oxygenating properties will be more successful in breaking down and removing the unsightly coloration.

If the stains are excessive or deep set, then hand scrubbing and letting the affected area soak for a half hour and then air drying will prepare your clothes for a regular wash cycle.

On white clothes you may also use hydrogen peroxide to break up the sweat proteins in a pre-wash soak.

A teaspoon of white vinegar in a cup of water will produce similar results for presoaking sweat stains in colored fabrics. Unlike the bleaching agents in the peroxide, the vinegar will not leach colored dyes from the fabric.

As a last ditch approach to removing otherwise unbeatable sweat stains, a paste of three white aspirin crushed into a teaspoon of Cream of Tartar blended into a cup of warm water will give you a solution that can then be scrubbed with a toothbrush to dig out the deep set stains.


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