How do you get a blood stain out?

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My arm bled onto my shirt sleeve. I don’t have stain remover. Help

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Stain remover works pretty well if it’s fresh blood stain

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I’ve heard cold water is good for an immediate cleaning.

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Thanks both of you.

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hydrogen peroxide can bring blood out of fabric

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Never heard of that but good to know. I will test it out if I remember :smile:

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Oh yeah. That’s right. I forgot about that.

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I’m soaking my shirt in cold salt water. We’ll see if that works. Thanks all

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If you get to it immediately, cold water will get blood out of clothes really well. If the item is white in color, you can use hydrogen peroxide to get blood out of white clothes. I like OxyClean too.

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I heard putting cold water and then rubbing salt on it helps.

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I soaked it in cold salt water. It helped. I soaked it a good while. Hopefully it’ll wash out

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I hope were not helping you out of some sort of crime :stuck_out_tongue:

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Windex will take apart blood stains in clothes. Ammonia, the cleaning ingredient takes apart the fat molecules that make up the blood cell wall. Meat tenderizer also works but is quite expensive. A similar enzymatic cleaning agent is OxiClean. Like hydrogen peroxide, it uses oxygen to clean with. Hydrogen peroxide is well known as a bleaching agent for organic matter, i.e. lightening human hair. Since silk is formed of a similar protein structure to human hair I would not recommend it as a cleaning agent for silk, especially if coloured.

Perhaps you could mail the shirt to a reputable cleaner? A shirt is lightweight and easily shipped.

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Cold water and dawn has always done me right no matter how old the stain

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No. Lol. I had a boo boo on my shoulder and it bled onto my shirt sleeve

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I have never had any problem washing blood out with just detergent.

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