Fruit & Vegetable Stains

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02/25/16 • 45278

I use cloth napkins at home and on the go. Sometimes, I keep my apple cores wrapped in my napkins until I can get to my compost bin at home but it leaves a brown stain I can never get out. I also use cloth napkins to dry my strawberries after rinsi...

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09/11/15 • 3952

Carve out those stains

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02/25/16 • 2567

Goo goo gotcha

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02/20/16 • 7308

How do I remove a tomato stain from a yellow t-shirt? I get lots of questions about spaghetti and tomato sauce stains, and there are a few different solutions for treating them! If you’ve got a stain from a tomato by itself, then you can pretreat it...

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09/11/13 • 1120

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02/25/16 • 5129

I have hard water and I know not to use bleach as it yellows whites. I do have a water softener, and a system that removes the rust, iron and manganese from the water. Do you have a product I could use that has the same properties as bleach, but doe...

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11/20/09 • 620

How do I get strawberry stains out? For strawberry stains, start by blotting away any excess (if the stain is fresh) and then rinse the stain with cold water.  What you do next depends on the color and fiber content of the item with the stain on it. ...

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05/16/12 • 888

How do I get out strawberries from a white cotton blouse? You can easily pretreat your strawberry stain before washing, but before you do, check the care label just to make sure your cotton blouse doesn’t have any spandex.  It’s getting m...

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06/28/16 • 876

My baby started eating food and his clothes have some food stains, how do I remove them? Congratulations on your new baby!  Baby food stains really benefit from pre-treating, but first be sure to scrape away excess stain (think pureed vegetable globs...

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09/26/11 • 86