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Basic stain removal is so important in helping your clothes last longer, so let’s take a quick look at how to get blood out of fabric.
It happens to everyone and is actually a pretty easy stain to deal with as long as you have a few tools.
What I Use to Get Blood Out of Fabric
I have a few tools in my stain removal arsenal that I use for most stains. One is this Shout Advanced stain remover gel. It’s thick and easy to apply right where you need it, plus the applicator has little scrubby fingers you can use to gently rub the gel into the fabric.
The other must-have for stain removal is a toothbrush. This one happens to be an Oral B flat head toothbrush I got from my dentist. Of course it doesn’t matter what kind but I like this one because it doesn’t have all the fancy grooves and color changing whatever. It’s just a toothbrush, which is what I need.
A toothbrush helps both with getting the stain remover into the fabric and brushing away the stain after soaking. I use it all the time.
How to Get Blood Out of Fabric
Now that we have our tools let’s walk through how to get blood out of fabric. If you catch it fast, a rinse with cold water might be all you need. But this method also works days later.
First, rinse with cold water and make sure the fabric is totally wet where the stain is.
Add your stain remover. If you just have the spray stuff that’s totally fine, but again, I like the gel that you can scrub in a little better.
Use the scrubbers or your toothbrush to gently work the stain remover into the fabric.
Let sit at least 15 minutes, up to a couple of hours. You don’t want the fabric to dry, but it’s OK if you forget about it for a while.
Rub over the stain again with the toothbrush.
Conventional wisdom is to use cold water with blood, and I do start that way, but for the final rinse I use warm water.
Turn the water on and begin to rinse the stained area. You can also use the toothbrush at this point to help remove the blood from the fabric.
Usually doing this once is enough, but you might need to go back over a few spots if there was a lot of blood or if the stain is older. Wash the garment as you normally would to make sure all the stain remover gets out of the fabric.
If this doesn’t work you can also pull out your OxiClean and give it a good soak, but very rarely does this method not totally remove the stain.
And while I say this is how to get blood out of fabric, it works for a lot of other kinds of stains, too, so give it a try and let me know if it works for you!
