Things You'll Need:
- Lemon Juices
- Paper towels
- Tide or Cheer brand Laundry Detergents
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Step 1
Lay the rust-stained fabric over several white paper towels, which will act as a blotter and absorb the rust.
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Step 2
Cut a lemon in half and saturate the stain with the fresh lemon juice. (Bottled lemon juice will work, too.)
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Step 3
Set the fabric (with the paper towel blotter beneath) out in the sun to dry. The rust stain will disappear.
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Step 4
Launder as usual.










Comments
popov said
on 9/5/2009 I had a rust stain on a nice fitting white shirt. I tried bleach on it and it didn't work, not even the dry cleaner could help me. This technique worked great. Thanks!!
askanexpert said
on 9/2/2009 Cant wait to see if this works! Somehow I managed to get rust stains on two of my favorite pairs of shorts. I've lemon juiced them up - based on the instructions and they're sitting out in the hot arizona sun now!
susan6k3 said
on 11/15/2007 Karen - thank you! i had Barkeepers Friend in the house so I tried it on a favorite white designer blouse that i dry clean because it has delicate embroidery. I made a paste with the cleanser & water & rubbed the paste gently into the stain, put a paper towel underneath. In a few hours the rust stain was completely gone, I just rinsed the spot with water & let dry.
nelles9 said
on 10/24/2007 600 ml boiling water and 4 t. cream of tartar on fabric that can be washed in hot water, works very well.
dorothyoz said
on 3/18/2007 I tried the lemon juice method on a couple different rust stains and it didn't work for me. I found a rust remover online (TheRustStore.com) called Magica that takes rust off just about anything.