How to Remove Tomato Stains (Catsup, Pasta Sauce) from Clothes

Whenever you get a tomato-based stain on your clothes, try this method first before you do anything else. This method of stain removal works for most types of stains--as long as you do this before you do anything else. Whatever you do, try not to set the stain by drying the stained clothing in a hot dryer or rinsing it in hot water.

Things You'll Need

• Ivory soap or liquid hand soap

Instructions

1. Run cold water over the tomato stain to get it wet.

2. Rub the stain with a bar of plain soap, such as Ivory soap, or a liquid hand soap (foaming or otherwise). Use your fingers to gently rub the soap into the stained area to create a lather. Gently rub the material on itself.

3. Rinse the soap out, and check to see if the stain is gone. If it isn't completely gone, repeat until the process again.

4. If the stain is still not gone, use a little chlorine bleach if the fabric is white. If the fabric is not white, use a litle color-safe bleach. Wash the fabric in the washer in cold water following label directions.

5. As alternative to bleaching in the washer is laying the clothing outside in the sunlight. The sun will bleach the clothing and the stain should disappear.

Tips & Warnings

• Whenever you get a stain, rinse it immediately in cold water. If you don't have time to hand-wash, put the clothing in a bucket of cold water with some gently soap and let it sit until you have time to hand wash the stain.

• Never, ever wash a stain in hot water or dry in a hot dryer. Instead of removing the stain, the heat will set the stain permanently.

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