I scoured the internet in search of the best way of removing rust stains from clothes. The method I ran into the most was rubbing salt into the stain with vinegar and letting it dry in the sun. Sadly, it didn't work. I feel like there wasn't even a slight lift of the stain with this method.
Next, I will try boiling it with cream of tartar.
Do not use bleach to get out rust stains. It sets rust. Watch those cleaners with bleach additives. By Diamondee
I bleached a discoloured white cotton T-shirt and it came out beautifully but a small section was resting on a knob in the sink and now its rusted. I tried vinegar and more bleach on that area but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Try Whink...
Available at walmart in a small brown bottle
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I have an expensive Matelesse bedspread that is covered with rust like spots. Can a dry cleaner remove them? The suggestions to remove on clothing won't work as it is a huge surface. Thanks.
Try rubbing fresh lemon juice on the spots then letting it sit out in the sunshine to dry.
I would take an expensive spread to a dry cleaner. I would try to clean a cheaper item myself.
How do you get whites whiter when you have rusty water? Bleach doesn't work.
This may help you:
www.thespruce.com/
According to the site, it says you can install a water softener, phosphate feeder, or a chlorinating filter (but that can be costly) so a non-precipitating packaged water softener may help.
You may have set the rust stains if you used bleach but no harm in trying other suggestions.
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