Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil, then a 60C wash in the machine. Still there. The
spots are quite small, around 1/4inch dia.

Then I tried an Oxalic Acid Dihydrate solution which had no effect.

While I'm here, my daughter has red wine stains on her wedding dress which cleaner shops
tell her is impossible to remove. Presumably they mean without bleaching out the dress
colour.

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Phil Addison

On 11/24/2015 8:05 PM, Phil Addison wrote:
Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil, then a 60C wash in the machine. Still there. The
spots are quite small, around 1/4inch dia.

Then I tried an Oxalic Acid Dihydrate solution which had no effect.

While I'm here, my daughter has red wine stains on her wedding dress which cleaner shops
tell her is impossible to remove. Presumably they mean without bleaching out the dress
colour.

I've had good luck using hydrogen peroxide on bloodstains, then rinsing
in cold water, followed by rubbing white bar soap (not detergent) into
the fabric, using an old toothbrush from the back of the fabric.
Unfortunately the 60deg wash may have set the stains.

Red wine stains need to be treated quickly, before they dry in place.

En el artículo , Phil
Addison escribió:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen". I
tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil, then a 60C wash in the machine. Still
there.

You wash out blood with by soaking, then washing with *cold* water and a
bio detergent. A hot wash cooks the proteins into the fabric, and makes
them pretty much impossible to get out.

As a last resort, you could try bleach applied directly to the spots
followed by a cold wash.

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Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil

A soak with some Biotex usually works.

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:05:19 +0000, Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from
linen". I tried a couple of days soaking in diluted Persil, then a 60C
wash in the machine. Still there. The spots are quite small, around
1/4inch dia.

Then I tried an Oxalic Acid Dihydrate solution which had no effect.

While I'm here, my daughter has red wine stains on her wedding dress
which cleaner shops tell her is impossible to remove. Presumably they
mean without bleaching out the dress colour.

I've always soaked in a cold salty solution. Then wash normally.

Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen".

Just wait the 25 years until you're out of clink. They'll have been
replaced in the meantime.

;-)

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Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

In message , Andy
Burns writes
Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from
linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil

A soak with some Biotex usually works.

My preferred approach for stubborn stains is to soak the offending
item in a mixture of biotex and percarbonate bleach ('oxygen ' bleach -
Ecvoer laundary bleach, Oxiclean etc.).

Leave to soak for a couple of days and then wash. Expsoure to the sun
is also a good way of bleaching out some stains
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Chris French

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:08:26 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

You wash out blood with by soaking,

In *cold* water and with a little bit of gentle agitation almost all
the blood will come out. I then rub a bar of "Vanish" over the area,
work in and cold wash.

A hot wash cooks the proteins into the fabric, and makes them pretty
much impossible to get out.

Yep, 60 C wash will most likely have done that. I think the
mechanisum is that the red cells rupture, the heat breaks down the
heamaglobin releasing the iron they contain and you end up with an
iron stain (aka rust).

As a last resort, you could try bleach applied directly to the spots
followed by a cold wash.

Might work but given that a cooked blood stain is principly a metalic
one I'd not be very confident.

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Cheers
Dave.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:08:26 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

You wash out blood with by soaking,

In *cold* water and with a little bit of gentle agitation almost all
the blood will come out. I then rub a bar of "Vanish" over the area,
work in and cold wash.

A hot wash cooks the proteins into the fabric, and makes them pretty
much impossible to get out.

Yep, 60 C wash will most likely have done that. I think the
mechanisum is that the red cells rupture, the heat breaks down the
heamaglobin releasing the iron they contain and you end up with an
iron stain (aka rust).

As a last resort, you could try bleach applied directly to the spots
followed by a cold wash.

Might work but given that a cooked blood stain is principly a metalic
one I'd not be very confident.


Bleach supposedly makes rust stains even harder to remove. Some techniques
mentioned here might be worth trying.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/cleani...removerust.htm

Tim

En el artículo o.uk,
Dave Liquorice escribió:

In *cold* water

That's what I said.

"You wash out blood with by soaking, then washing with *cold* water"

'cold water' is the object of both the verbs 'soaking' and 'washing'

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On 25/11/2015 15:01, Tim+ wrote:



Bleach supposedly makes rust stains even harder to remove. Some techniques
mentioned here might be worth trying.


On the bottle of Lidl W5 Limescale Remover it claims 'removes rust stains'




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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:01:37 -0000 (UTC), Tim+ wrote:

Dave Liquorice wrote:

A hot wash cooks the proteins into the fabric, and makes them pretty
much impossible to get out.

Yep, 60 C wash will most likely have done that. I think the
mechanisum is that the red cells rupture, the heat breaks down the
heamaglobin releasing the iron they contain and you end up with an
iron stain (aka rust).

As a last resort, you could try bleach applied directly to the spots
followed by a cold wash.

Might work but given that a cooked blood stain is principly a metalic
one I'd not be very confident.

Bleach supposedly makes rust stains even harder to remove. Some techniques
mentioned here might be worth trying.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/cleani...removerust.htm

Ok, it's basically rust by now - out with the Jenolite then (not really!!). I saw the
(white) vinegar and salt idea on another googled page too, as suggested by Tim, and lemon
juice and salt on another. I'll give it a go. Won't be trying bleach as that will ruin the
existing fabric colour.

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Phil Addison

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:13:53 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil

A soak with some Biotex usually works.

No, there's no bio bits left for it to work on after the 60C.

--
Phil Addison

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:24:23 +0000, Chris French wrote:

In message , Andy
Burns writes
Phil Addison wrote:

Like it says "Ideas wanted for removing dried-on blood stains from
linen". I tried a
couple of days soaking in diluted Persil

A soak with some Biotex usually works.

My preferred approach for stubborn stains is to soak the offending
item in a mixture of biotex and percarbonate bleach ('oxygen ' bleach -
Ecvoer laundary bleach, Oxiclean etc.).

Leave to soak for a couple of days and then wash. Expsoure to the sun
is also a good way of bleaching out some stains

Only on white fabric, or if you prefer white patches to brown

--
Phil Addison

On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:58:05 UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Yep, 60 C wash will most likely have done that. I think the
mechanisum is that the red cells rupture, the heat breaks down the
heamaglobin releasing the iron they contain and you end up with an
iron stain (aka rust).

If vinegar removes rust from steel, perhaps it might shift it
from fabric?