How to remove Curry Stains from clothes

Often while cooking or eating, it is customary for curry to fall on the clothes and ruin the evening. This can happen to you any time, whether you are at a restaurant with family or sitting at home and eating alone.

Kids are extremely careless and therefore they might just drop their spoon full of curry on their clothes, but no matter how careful you are, one of the drops of curry finds its way to escape the mouth and fall on the clothes. This might be ignored for the time being but the main ingredient is curry is turmeric which leaves behind a nasty yellow stain which doesn’t leave no matter how hard you try later on; therefore immediate action should be taken once you or your kids have stained their clothes.

Curry stains cannot be removed with simple detergents, but ingredients that have a bleaching effect are the only solution for curry stains. In case you are in a restaurant or in someone else’s house it is important to know what will take out the stains. We have given the following methods to remove the curry stains from clothes which require ingredients which are readily available and will help you in taking an immediate action against the curry stains.

Method 1

Things that you will require:

·      Empty bowl

·      Glycerin

·      Detergent (with enzymes)

·      Gloves

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Run the stains under warm water. Make sure that the water falls on the curry stain from the back side.

2.   Take the empty bowl and mix equal amounts of the liquid Glycerin and water. Now work the mixture into the stains while wearing gloves to protect your hands. Rub the stains and soak them in the solution for about ten to thirty minutes.

3.   Wash the glycerin solution out with water and sprinkle the detergent with enzymes onto the stains, add water and rub it onto the stain. Make sure to check if the stain has vanished. If it hasn’t leave the clothes soaking in the detergent for about 20 minutes.

4.   Wash the clothes thoroughly will the detergent is cleared. The curry stain will be removed by now as well.

Method 2

Things that you will require:

·      Butter knife

·      Lemon and/or vinegar

·      Paper napkins

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Use the butter knife to remove the access curry on the surface of the stain.

2.   Run the stain under water from the back side of the clothes and use a dry paper napkin to lift off as much of the stain from the clothes.

3.   Squeeze a lemon on the curry stain and pour a few drops of vinegar onto it. This mixture will have a bleaching effect on the stain but will not have any effect on the color of the clothes.

4.   Rub the mixture and then leave it on for about fifteen minutes.

5.   Wash the clothes with warm water, making sure the vinegar, lemon solution has cleared out of the clothes. The curry stains will also leave with the lemon vinegar solution.

Method 3

Things that you will require:

·      Hydrogen peroxide

·      Water

·      Empty bowl

·      Laundry powder with enzymes

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Take the empty bowl and add one part hydrogen peroxide and nine parts of water into it.

2.   Soak the curry stains in the solution and let it sit for about 2 or 3 hours.

3.   After that take the laundry powder with enzymes and pour it onto the stains and rub till the stains have disappeared. Then wash with cold water.

Warning:

·      It is best to let the clothes air dry after the washes.

·      Also make sure to test the strong bleaches on a piece of cloth that isn’t visible on the outside, like the inside seams so see if the bleach decolorizes the cloth.

·      After each pre-wash treatment it is important that you put the clothes in the laundry so that any trace of the left over stains can be removed with one final wash.