How To Treat Four Common Stains: Red Wine, Oil, Blood And Ink | Life Kit | NPR

You’ve wiped ink on your sleeve. Or dribbled dressing down your shirt. (Oil stains are the worst!) Perhaps it’s the catastrophic red wine spill on a friend’s tablecloth. Don’t fret! With the help of some common household products (dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, and rubbing alcohol) and chemistry know-how, you can be a stain removal master. This video shows you how to tackle stains like ink and blood, plus how to get oil stains out of clothes and a red wine removal trick that doubles as a great party trick.

Stain specific timecodes:

-Red wine stain: 0:30
-Oil Stain: 0:57
-Blood Stain: 1:22
-Ink Stain: 1:48

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