Bleach stains on your clothes? Find out how to restore a stained garment
Bleach is a very useful ally to thoroughly clean and sanitize many surfaces in the home, which means that most likely we always have a bottle ready to use somewhere in our home. However, it is also a substance to be used with great caution: it must not come into contact with hands, eyes or mouths. And it can also damage the clothes we wear.
So if we happen, by mistake, to get bleach splashes on clothes, it is almost impossible to act quickly enough in order to limit the damage (and indeed, sometimes this makes the situation worse!). We then find ourselves with yellowish or white spots on our garments where the bleach has literally made the dye disappear.
However, we must not lose heart: there is always a remedy to try to recover the garment, and this is the dyeing of the damaged item. Below, we present some useful information to ensure that this procedure works for you.
Video tutorial via @lacasadimattia/TikTok
Any product for dyeing laundry at home comes with instructions, and it is always good to read these properly before starting the process. Indeed, there are some precautions to take that will help the whole operation, and the TikToker @lacasadimattia details theses on her TikTok account.
Follow these step-by-step instructions recommended by this cleaning professional:
- Wash the garment by itself to remove any residual traces of bleach;
- At the moment of rinsing, deactivate the spin cycle: the more the fabric remains saturated with water, the better the dyeing process will work;
- Insert the dye and follow the included instructions. @lacasadimattia proposes doing a wash cycle for synthetic garments at 40°C.
At this point, the garment should come out of the washing machine completely dyed, with no more visible bleach stains. It may have changed color, but it will look like new. The TikToker also suggests one more step: to do a quick wash cycle, at 40 °C, with just a drop of detergent to help fix the new color.
You can see the results obtained in a video by clicking here.
The experiences of social media users with this type of remedy, however, are not always positive: it seems that the dyes done in a washing machine do not succeed very well with synthetic fabrics or cotton. Generally, however, choosing dyes of darker shades manages to camouflage the stains in a satisfactory way.
Have you ever tried this remedy?
