How to Remove Bleach Stains

Removing bleach stains isn’t easy but spilling bleach on your clothing doesn’t have to be a tragedy. There are a few tricks you can use to patch it up, depending on the size of the stain. Alcohol and markers can usually be used to cover smaller stains. Larger stains however have to be patched up with the use of clothing dye and/or dye remover.

Alcohol

If you have a small bleach stain and on a colored item sometimes you can cover it by using rubbing Alcohol. To do this, poor a small amount of alcohol on a white cloth and rub it around the stained area. The idea here is to use the alcohol to smear the die in the colored part of the clothing over the stained part. This only works for very small stains on colored clothing. This method works especially well on darker colored items but not as well on lighter colors.

Markers

Sometimes you can cover a stain using markers. This only works however if you can match the color of the clothing to the marker. If you can, then it is a good fix for reasonably small stains. However, it is only temporary and has to be reapplied. If you use this method to cover a stain make sure that you do not wash or dry the item with any of your other clothing because if you do the dye from the markers may stain your other clothes.

Dye and Dye Remover

Sometimes you can find dye that is the same color as your clothing and apply it to the stained area. This is sometimes a good choice for larger stains. However, it is often difficult to find dye that is the exact same color as the piece of clothing that you have stained. Therefore, the best way to go about it is to by dye remover, apply it to the entire item and then you can re-dye the entire item whatever color you choose.

Bleach

If all else fails you can turn you stained item into a tie die by washing it in the washer with a very small amount of bleach. If you do this however, make sure that you do not wash it with any other clothing items.

If you spill bleach on your favorite outfit, don’t stress. You can use these three helpful tips to remove bleach stains from most items. It is best however, to keep bleach as far away from your clothing as possible. Although bleach stains can be removed most of the time, its best prevent them rather than fix them.