How to Clean Spilled Tomato Soup off a Shirt
Never let another shirt be ruined because you spilled tomato soup on it. A homemade soaking solution will rid your clothes of all types of tomato stains: spaghetti sauce, ketchup, tomato soup and tomato juice, but as with most stain solutions, the sooner you treat the garment, the more likely you'll be successful. Do not give up--your shirt can be saved. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Stained shirt
- Large, shallow bowl
- Kettle
- Soaking solution: ¼ cup laundry detergent mixed with 1 gallon water
- Deep bowl or bucket
- Stain pre-treatment (such as Shout! or Spray and Wash)
- Color-safe bleach
Instructions
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Lay the stained shirt in a shallow bowl and bring a kettle of water to a boil.
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Pour the boiling water directly over the stain.
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Rinse the shirt in cool water and transfer to a deep bowl filled with one gallon of soaking solution.
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Soak the shirt for one hour in the solution.
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Remove the stained shirt and apply a stain pretreatment solution, according to the manufacturer's instructions, directly onto the stain.
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Wash the shirt with color-safe bleach added to your washing machine, according to package instructions.
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Lay the shirt in the sun to air dry and let the sun bleach out any remaining tomato stains.
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References
- Photo Credit Tomato soup with rice and dill image by Elzbieta Sekowska from Fotolia.com
