Easily Remove Protein Stains With Confidence Using These Tips

What is a Protein Based Stain?
Protein stains are quite easy to identify. When the stain is caused by a substance from an animals or a person you are dealing with protein. Bodily fluids from animals or people are really nasty but they are protein just the same. Proteins from bodily fluids are blood, vomit, feces or urine. Dairy products including infant formula, eggs, juices from meat, as well as gelatin all cause protein based stains. Keep calm when dealing with any stain because it doesn't have to be difficult.

Cold water is your first and most important tool when tackling a protein stain. Cold water can dilute a this type of stain found on most washable fabrics.

If the stain remains after flushing with cold water, soak the garment in cold water for a period of time. If the stain still remains on the garment, treat it with an enzyme based cleaner. Enzyme based cleaners can be found at a health food store or natural cleaning supply company.

WHEN TO ADD HEAT:
Adding heat or chemicals to a protein stain will change the protein substance very much like when you cook the white of an egg and it turns white and gets hard or when you adding vinegar to milk and it cause it to curdle. When heat is added to protein stains chemical changes take place and will set the stain. With these set stains it will be more difficult to remove.

Some proteins will require heat or warm water to be removed, these such stains are hardened glue and feces. Hardened glue must be softened with heat while feces stains are moved with warm water.


To Remove Baby Fomula:
from white/washable fabric use undiluted lemon juice and set in the sun.
from colored/washable fabric cover the area with a paste mixture of cool water and unseasoned meat tenderizer. Let it sit this way for 30 minutes then brush of the paste mixture and launder as normal.

To Remove Bird Poop:
from clothes or washable fabric, scrap off as much of the dropping as possible without rubbing it further into the fabric. Flush with cold water until the stain is gone. If the stain is still visible wash with hydrogen peroxide or a bleach safe for the fabric.
from canvas wet a scrub brush and rub the brush over a bar of Fels-Naptha soap, then sprinkle it with washing soda. Scrub the bird poop from the canvas and rinse with plenty of cold water.

To remove blood from carpet click here or from clothes click here.