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STAIN
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CONDITION
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WHITE COTTON
&LINEN
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Beverages, coffee
&tea
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Fresh-Dry
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Spread borax over and pour boiling water
thoroughly. Or steep in glycerine until stain is removed. If it still
persists bleach with javelle water.
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Blood
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Fresh
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Soak in cold water,
then wash in diluted NH3
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Dry
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Steep in cold water
and salt, until stain is removed
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Butter-grease
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Fresh
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Wash with soapy
solution
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Curry
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Dry
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Wash with soap
&water. Dry in sunlight &air. Bleach with javella water
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Egg
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Fresh
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Wash with cold water
and then in warm water
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Dry
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Apply salt and pour
warm water through.
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Fruit &wine
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fresh
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Cover the stain with
Starch paste and leave
it for an hour. Rub of the starch and pour boiling water through
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dry
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Spread borax or salt
over the stain and pour boiling water through till stain is removed
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Grass
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fresh
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Steep in methylated
spirit and wash with soap and then water
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Grease, oil and Ghee
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fresh
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Wash with hot water
&soap
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dry
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Treat with grease
solvent and wash with hot water &soap.
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Candle grease
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solid
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Scrape off as much as
possible with a blunt knife. Place the stain in between a blotting paper and
press it with a hot iron. Sponge with benzene
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Turmeric
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Treat with solvent
soap and dry in sunlight &air.
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Henna
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Dip in warm milk for
half an hour, then wash with soap
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Ink
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Fresh
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Rub the stain with cut
tomato. Wash &rub salt, wash. repeat the process till the stain is
removed. Or
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Soak the stain
immediately in sour milk or curd for half an hour, don’t allow the curd or milk
to dry. Wash with soap &water. Or
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Apply salt and lime
water &leave it for half an hour and then wash it properly.
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Dry
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Steep in diluted
oxalic acid. Rinse thoroughly with diluted borax solution
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Iron
|
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Steep in oxalic acid
solution and then rinse with borax solution.
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Lipstick
|
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Steep in methylated
spirit and wash with solvent soap. Moisten and soften working glycerine into
stain. Leave for a short while. Rinse &then wash with soap
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Milk
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Sponge with
benzoic or carbon tetra chloride, wash
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Shoe polish
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Scrap off the stain if
dry, apply a little grease, wash with hot water &soap
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Steep in turpentine,
wash with solvent soap.
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Ball point Ink
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Swab with methylated
spirit using a pad of blotting paper below.
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