Stained your shirt but don’t have time for a spin cycle? Your first impulse is probably to whip out your phone and start Googling. But how reliable are the quick stain removal tips you come across? This week on Reactions, we try out a bunch of those tips and consider the chemistry behind why some are more effective than others.
Sources:
- Chemistry of stain removal
- Stain removal guide that has some useful info but everything is for pre-dryclean or pre-laundering
- Stain removal infographic from Compound Chemistry
- This paper concluded that, for blood stain removal, hot water is actually best and that heparin, alteplase, and streptokinase all made the stains worse
- Cleaning blood stains
- Remove blood stains with hydrogen peroxide
- Hydrogen peroxide and blood stains
- Hydrogen Peroxide: the body's best defence system
- Blood cells and catalase
- Quick tip for getting grease stains out of clothes
- Removing grease from clothes
- Dawn how to remove grease stains from clothing
- Tons of (some crazy) grease removal suggestions like cheeze wiz or coca cola
- How temperature influences solubility of water
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