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.
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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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Does anyone know how to get rust stains out of (white) clothing?
By TJ from Knoxville, TN
I have been able to get out rust stains using old-fashioned rust remover. It comes in a rust-colored small plastic squeeze container. White lettering. May not be with the laundry aids, but in the cleaning section...most often used to clean rust stains on toilets, sinks, and tubs. It is very caustic, so use carefully and read the directions.
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
Sprinkle the stain with salt, drip some lemon juice on it and set it in the sun.
You could try some of "the works" toilet bowl cleaner. I got a rust stain out of a shirt that way,,,Good luck..Wendy
Try dabbing a little bit of hydrogen peroxide (from the medicine cabinet) on the stain with a Q-tip. Let set for just a few minutes, then wash.
Any of the methods given below are safe for rust stains on white fabrics, but test on colored fabrics before use.
Lemon Juice - suitable for light stains on delicate fabrics. Spread stain over a bowl of boiling water and sprinkle with lemon juice. After a few minutes, rinse well and repeat if necessary.
Lemon Juice and Salt - sprinkle stain with salt, rub with lemon juice and place in sunlight. Keep moist with lemon juice till stain goes. Rinse well.
Cream of Tartar - (a powder, available in your grocery store spice section) for extensive staining, boil in a solution of 3 tsp. cream of tartar per cup of water. Rinse well OR if less extensive, dampen stain, spread with cream of tartar, hold in steam from boiling kettle. Rinse immediately stain goes. Do not use on fabrics that cannot be washed in hot water.
from www.srfabrics.com/
Hope this helps!
That is the one thing that does work on rust on clothes,putting salt on then lemon then placed where the sunlight can get at it.
I tried this myself awhile back and it really did work..
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