How to remove soy sauce from clothes - a review of effective methods

Soy sauce is a tasty and interesting thing. But it has a rich color and is well absorbed into the fabric. Therefore, not all housewives manage to wash off soy sauce, and often after visiting a sushi bar, a new item ends up in the trash.

Universal recipes

Soy sauce is a naturally fermented product. Trying to immediately wash the stain with detergents will cause the dyes to react with the soap or powder. This will fix the dye into the fibers.

Do not use boiling water to remove sauce! This will fix the pigment into the fibers of the fabric!

The following ways can help you avoid this:

1. Fresh dirt should be washed with a large volume of cold water. This will remove organic components, pigments, sugars. After this, the item is washed as usual with detergents.
2. Old stains should be soaked in warm water without detergents. This will soften and dissolve sugars and pigments. Next, the item is washed as usual.
3. Salt is used on all types of fabric, including delicates, and lightly bleaches them. The method is suitable for fresh and old soaked stains. Fine salt should be applied to the soy sauce stain. Leave for a while. Before washing, shake it off the item. After this, all that remains is to put the wardrobe item in the washing machine.
4. Dishwashing gels are more aggressive detergents than washing powders. They dissolve fats and natural pigments well.The gel is used to pre-soak the product and is not applied to the stain.

White clothes

To wash white natural fabrics, use your usual bleaching agents. It is undesirable to use chlorine-based bleaches as they damage fabric fibers.

So, how do you remove stains from white clothes?

• "Vanish."

Use bleach in white containers. It is intended only for light-colored fabrics and is more effective than universal products. Users praise Vanish Oxi Action. Judging by the reviews, 1 treatment is enough.

Bleach is either applied to the stain according to the manufacturer's recommendations, or a solution is prepared and the item is soaked in it. After this, it is washed as usual.

• Bleaching agents “Sarma”, “Bos”.

The cost of such products is lower than Vanisha, but this does not affect the effectiveness. You need to soak or treat the stain according to the manufacturer's instructions on the bleach container. Users recommend leaving the product on the fabric for 12 hours and then washing as usual.

Colored things

If sauce is poured onto jeans or a colored blouse, the task of the cleaning agent is to remove dirt and preserve the color of the product. The initial stage of stain removal is washing it with cold water to mechanically remove dyes.

Proven recipes:

• Glycerol dissolves fats and pigments contained in soy sauce. It is applied to the stain using a gauze pad and left for 20 minutes. Then you need to rinse with cold water and wash the item with regular detergent.
• Ammonia enhances the effect of glycerin, dissolves fats and pigments of soy sauce. For 4 parts glycerin you will need 1 part ammonia.The mixture is applied to the stain using a gauze pad and left for 15 minutes. Then rinse with plenty of clean water and wash as usual.

When working with ammonia, you need to be extremely careful, avoid getting it into your eyes and mucous membranes!

• "Vanish universal" less effective than powder in white packages, but does not cause discoloration of fabric. Apply it according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Soy sauce and upholstered furniture

The fabric from which the upholstery of upholstered furniture is made is dense and stain-resistant. The absorption rate of liquids - including soy sauce - is lower than that of the fabrics from which clothing is made. In addition, manufacturers treat products with special compounds that prevent pigments from fixing in the upholstery fibers.

Simple remedies will help you remove soy sauce from the couch:

• A fresh stain should be blotted with a paper napkin (preferably more than one) - this will allow you to remove as much residual liquid as possible. Then you should pour clean water over the area of ​​contamination and remove it using the same wipes. Repeat the manipulations several times. For fresh stains this is enough.
• In more difficult cases, laundry soap will help - you need to foam it and apply it to the stain, leave for 15 minutes, blot with a napkin. Then wipe the stain with a clean, damp cloth to remove any remaining soap solution. Repeat several times.
• An old stain is removed with the same water and a solution of laundry soap, but the dried soy sauce is first soaked. The stain should be thoroughly moistened with water and left for a while. Then rinse and remove any remaining dirt using a paper towel. At the same time, both sugar and dust adhering to the remaining sauce are removed.To remove pigments, apply a soap solution.

To improve the cleaning properties of the soap, add a little baking soda. Next, the solution is washed off with clean water.

Soy sauce washes off well. But it contains natural dyes, and boiling water helps them fix in the fibers of the fabric. Therefore, we pre-treat the product in cold water, and only then wash it according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.