Pine, spruce and other conifers are very beautiful trees. Admiring them in the forest is a pleasure. Brings no less joy Christmas tree, even if it is pine. Unfortunately, conifers are high in resin. Consider how to wipe the resin from pine or spruce from clothes.
Having found pine resin on clothes, you should not take rash actions:
- Do not try to rub the stain with your hands. So you not only do not remove it, but also rub it deeper into the fibers of the fabric.
- If you're out and about, postpone all stain removal until you get home. In a calm environment, guided by our advice, you will cope with any pollution.
- Remove pine resin from clothing by washing in a normal washing machine- unreal. If the soiled clothes are loaded with other laundry, then you risk getting tar stains on the rest of the clothes.
Mechanical Resin Removal
The less left on clothes pine resin the easier it will be to wash it. Sounds logical. Consider how to fix maximum amount sticky substance mechanically.
Once at home, find a sharp object, and try to literally pick off some of the resin from the clothes. Ideally, only a flat trace should remain, through which the structure of the tissue is visible.
If this state is still far away, and a sharp object is no longer effective (or you are simply afraid of scratching), put the clothes in the freezer for an hour and a half. Frozen resin loses its elasticity and becomes brittle. This makes it easy to remove those particles that have not been absorbed into the fibers of the fabric.
It is possible to clean the resin mechanically and finally. However, this is a tricky approach and is only recommended for delicate fabrics that you don't want to process otherwise. The method is applied already on the most cleaned spot.
- Take an iron and some paper napkins(dense), which will act as a substrate.
- Lay the garment inside out on the ironing board.
- Lay a backing pad over the pine soil.
- Heat the resin with an iron (according to the ironing instructions).
- The resin will soften and be drawn into the substrate.
If the pine "gift" was quite extensive, then the procedure will need to be performed several times.
Chemical Resin Removal
These approaches are also used on residual soiling where most of the resin has been mechanically removed from the garment.
Reliable way remove resin stains is to use solvents. These include:
- Actually, the solvent (acetone);
- Petrol;
- Alcohol;
- Nail polish remover;
- Turpentine.
There are two approaches to cleaning clothes with these substances at home: radical and gentle.
Radical:
- Take a cotton swab (disk) and soak it in the chosen solvent.
- Rub the pine resin on the clothes well.
- Wait 20 minutes.
- Rinse clothes in running water.
- Wash and dry.
- Cut into small pieces a little laundry soap (rub on a grater).
- Put the pieces in a container.
- Add about the same amount of solvent there (usually gasoline is used).
- Stir until a homogeneous slurry is formed.
- Apply the slurry to the resin.
- Let it brew for an hour.
- Rinse, wash, dry.
Remember that all of these substances are dangerous to humans. Work with them carefully: in a ventilated area, using gloves, a respirator and goggles. Although they are effective in removing tar stains, there is a risk of damage to dyed fabrics.
Another chemical method to remove traces of resin is based on the use of starch and ammonia(with some turpentine). To do this, you will need to prepare a cleaning paste:
- Pour a little ordinary starch into a small container;
- Add a teaspoon of turpentine and ammonia (the same amount);
- Stir until a homogeneous slurry is formed;
- Apply to clothing in the area of contamination;
- Wait for the composition to dry, and rub the resin with a brush;
- It will be removed along with the paste;
- If traces remain, repeat the procedure.
Finally, a regular stain remover is suitable for removing relatively fresh stains.
- Find the composition that matches your fabric type.
- Apply to resin and leave for 20 minutes.
- Rinse your clothes.
- Wash as usual, but add stain remover to the powder.
Folk methods
The indicated methods of processing clothes are not suitable for all fabrics. For example, on wool and fur products, it is better to use this approach:
- Apply vegetable oil to the pine resin;
- Rub with moderate enthusiasm - this will soften the resin;
- Apply dishwashing liquid to the contamination - it will degrease the surface after treatment with vegetable oil;
- Wait 30 minutes and wash your clothes.
Soda is also used to soften the resin. Almost any where there is high acidity and gas bubbles is suitable. The contaminated place is soaked in the drink for some time (15 minutes), after which the clothes are sent to the wash.
Pine resin is well removed from leather things with a gauze swab dipped in vegetable oil. The rest is removed with alcohol.
Alternative methods are not as effective as chemical ones, but they are less risky in terms of the risk of damaging clothing.
Conclusion
As you can see, pine resin is removed from clothes without going to the dry cleaners, although this option cannot be discounted. You can walk in the forest without any fear for your wardrobe.
Good high spirits after a walk in a park or pine forest can easily be spoiled by tar stains found on clothes. Especially often, active kids, conquering the tops of park trees, “delight” their mothers with tree resin on a T-shirt. Men often do not behave very carefully during wiring repairs using rosin. All this instills fear in the housewives, because due to the viscous sticky consistency, it often seems impossible to remove the resin. You can’t take jeans or jackets in which you go to nature and go to the park, or your husband’s garage outfit to dry cleaning, as this is real pampering. But I also don’t want to throw out new things on which one small spot is planted.
What is resin and how to deal with it?
Viscous, thick, brown or dark yellow substance has a complex composition. Because of their physical properties cleaning resin from fabric and leather is always not very easy. In a liquid, softened state, it is deeply absorbed into the fabric, then cools and hardens far into the bowels of the fabric. The first way to clean a thing is to wash with powder in a washing machine. The second desperate step can be considered an attempt to tear off the resin with a knife blade. Having failed with the mechanical action on the dirt, go to the thermal method of processing clothes.
When solidified, the stain from amorphous substances resembles chewing gum. Therefore, many believe that you can simply put the contaminated item in the freezer for a while, then scrape the traces of dirt with a knife, and the resin will simply fall off. Instead of using a knife, you can simply knead, “rustle” the cloth, as if it were paper, and particles of a dark solidified substance will fall off. In fact, not everything is so simple, and not everyone gets rid of it with the help of frost.
It was not possible to clean the annoying viscous substance with the help of low temperatures - let's try to apply a radically opposite method. Place a layer of paper napkins under the stain, cover it with a cloth or paper on top, and heat it with a hair dryer. Some housewives claim that the resin will heat up, soften and flow out. But often such an experiment ends in failure, as the resin borders spread further and further along the fabric.
Resin removers
The pantry of folk wisdom is expanding every year. Looking into it, you can find incredible recipes for getting rid of stains of any origin at home. Before going to the store for stain removers, rummage through kitchen cabinets, first aid kit, and garage. There are always a lot of products that are home "rescuers" and are ready to easily remove tar marks from the fabric.
List of the most effective "fighters" with traces of resin:
- alcohol,
- kerosene,
- ammonia,
- acetone,
- petrol,
- turpentine,
- potato starch,
- carbonated drinks,
- solvent white spirit,
- vegetable oil.
Some of these substances can be used alone, some need to be used only in combination with others.
Alcohol
Moisten a cotton pad generously with rubbing alcohol and wipe the fresh stain with it. The beauty of this method is that even colored fabrics are absolutely not afraid of alcohol. After the desired result is achieved, and the tar trace is gone, repeat the procedure and send the rescued item to the washing machine. so cheap and in a simple way even dirt from pine resin is easily removed.
Solvent
This category includes the following liquids: kerosene, gasoline, turpentine and nail polish remover (only if acetone is included in the composition). In any of the above means, you need to moisten a cotton pad or cotton swab (depending on the size of the contamination) and wipe traces of resin from a pine or other tree with them. After dissolving the stains, hold the item under cold running water for a long time. This will help to remove the chemical pungent smell of the solvent. After that, the wardrobe item must be washed in a typewriter or by hand using an air conditioner. Be careful: for colored fabrics, this method can be fatal.
Turpentine
Saturate the contaminated area with turpentine, after the resin has completely softened, soak it in a paper towel, pressing the fabric well. Repeat the procedure several times. After the "press", the clothes must be washed in cold water, and then send to the washing machine, generously adding fragrant conditioner.
Starch + turpentine + ammonia
The only method that allows you to remove traces of resin from delicate items. To 1 tablespoon potato starch add 1 teaspoon of turpentine and ammonia. Stir the gruel and apply it for 12 hours on pollution. When the gruel dries, you need to clean it off your clothes along with the remnants of the resin.
Housewives love to use it for other purposes and wash various items with it. Resin, as it turned out, can also be washed off with cola: you need to soak the item in soda for 5 hours, and then simply send it to the drum of your “washer”, adding powder and conditioner.
Vegetable oil
Fat is great for removing tar stains. Soak the blot with a swab dipped in oil and wash it after 20 minutes laundry soap. After drying, you can wash the little thing in the usual way.
White Spirit
Better than ordinary alcohol, only white spirit can do it. The procedure is the same: with a moistened cotton pad, treat contamination from resin from wood, rosin or even bitumen. After a thing it is desirable to wash twice.
As you can see, people have learned to deal with absolutely any spots. The main thing is not to delay. The fresher the dirt, the easier it will be to destroy. There are a lot of ways people have come up with. Showing ingenuity and asking folk methods on the Internet, you will save twice. Firstly, you will not need to buy expensive special tools in the store. Secondly, your favorite thing will remain safe and sound.
Resin stains on new, and most importantly, expensive clothes seem like a real disaster. However, there is no need to panic ahead of time: you can remove the resin with improvised means, so much so that there are no traces or smell left.
Universal technique. Remove the hardened resin ball with a utility knife, razor blade, or other sharp object. Be careful not to tear the fabric. Do not overdo it: clean only the outer layer, without touching the ingrained substance.
Then place the soiled item in a cold place (for example, in the freezer) for 60-90 minutes so that the remaining resin freezes and crumbles. If the fabric is not too thin (silk, chiffon), wrinkle well and rub as if washing - the contamination should decrease.
After that, lay the fabric on both sides with several layers of toilet paper, napkins or paper towels and iron it. The absorbed resin should melt and transfer to the paper. Repeat the action until the "blotters" are clean.
Observe the recommended ironing temperature for the garment and remove the iron periodically to avoid burning a hole. In most cases, these measures will be enough: just wash the salvaged clothes as usual and forget about sticky stains. However, if the pollution was too strong, additional measures will be required.
How to remove tar stain
1. Solvents: acetone, nail polish remover, refined gasoline, turpentine.
Carefully! Before starting to soil, test the product on an inconspicuous area of \u200b\u200bmaterial, for example, on a seam on the wrong side. Use solvents on painted materials with care.
Blot the stain with a cotton pad soaked in the selected composition, after 20-30 minutes, when the resin gets wet, wipe with alcohol.
2. Coca-Cola. Just soak the tar stain in soda, and after half an hour remove it with a brush or a hard sponge.
3. Alcohol.
4. White spirit (especially good for synthetics).
6. Store-bought stain remover or bleach (for colored and white fabrics, respectively). Follow instructions.
7. Homemade remedy: mix 1 tsp. potato starch and 4 drops each of ammonia and turpentine. Apply the mixture on the stain, and after half an hour, thoroughly clean this place with a brush.
8. How to remove resin from leather clothes. Wipe the area with a cotton swab dipped in vegetable oil, after a quarter of an hour, wash off the softened resin with soapy water. In the same way, you can remove tar stains from your hands.
Adviсe:
- If you “planted” a very small stain from the resin of a pine or other tree on your clothes, apply a cleaning agent to it with a pipette or a cotton swab. Clean large dirt from the edges to the center so as not to smear the dirt even more.
- Resist the first impulse to immediately wipe off the resin with a tissue: just rub the sticky substance deep into the fabric. However, later, when you remove the stain, do not forget to circle the problem area along the contour with a damp cotton swab so that the softened resin does not spread over the clothes.
- Remember that resin is a very sticky substance that sticks to absolutely all surfaces, so before you start treating the stain, spread a clean cloth or paper tablecloth on the table, and only then lay the affected item on it. If this is not done, the next item on your evening program will be the removal of tar contamination from furniture.
Walking through the pine forest, it's hard to resist taking a photo next to the spruce. But after such funny moments you may find tar stains on clothes. Of course, the situation is not pleasant, but do not spoil your mood. In the article we will analyze the question: How to remove resin from clothes at home.
After all, it can be washed and your favorite thing will return to the wardrobe again. Also, our tips will help you get rid of dried, old resin stains. Choose a convenient stain removal method for yourself and give things a second life.
What should not be done with a tar stain?
If you don't want to aggravate the situation with the stain, then read and remember what not to do with the tar stain.
- Just don't wash it in the washing machine. After all, this is not the usual contamination of the fabric, but resin. So you will make it even worse and just don’t wash anything;
- Rubbing a stain with resin is also not worth it. In this way, you will simply rub the resin deeper, and it will be much more difficult to clean the stain;
- Do not use conventional stain removal methods. They will not help you at all, and in some cases they can only aggravate the situation.
Resin stain pre-cleaning
Before removing the stain itself from the fabric, you should clean, remove upper layer resin, so that it would be easier to work in the future.
- Put your item in the freezer of the refrigerator for 2 hours. During this time, the resin will harden and you will burn the drop itself, then you can easily remove it from the fabric. When removing the hardened resin, use rag gloves to prevent the resin from sticking to your fingers;
- If you can't use the freezer, then try to remove the top layer of resin with a knife. But don't pull the knife too hard, as you may enlarge the area of the stain or rub the resin deeper into the fabric.
If you have contamination on a thin or delicate fabric, then you should not perform the above steps. To avoid damage to the fabric itself.
Preparing the spot cleaning area
No. 1 So that when cleaning the resin does not spread over clean areas of the fabric, do the following:
- Treat the fabric around the stain with water;
- Apply a small amount of talc or starch to the wetted surface.
#2 Before applying solvents to the stain, clean the area around the stain with a clothes brush or duct tape. By cleaning the fabric, solvents will not sag.
No. 3 Whatever solvents saturate the other side of the thing, put a flat piece of plank under the stain, wrapped several times with a waffle towel. You can use a kitchen wooden cutting board.
#1 Use of gasoline
To remove the stain you will need:
- Refined gasoline (sold in the store) or refined kerosene;
- Baby soap;
- A bowl of cool water;
- Plate.
We carry out the cleaning procedure:
- In a bowl, mix gasoline with soap (1 to 1 proportions);
- Apply the resulting mixture to the stain and leave it for 1 hour;
- Rinse the item in a bowl of water for 3 minutes.
Do not use motor gasoline. So you just spoil the thing forever.
#2 Use of alcohol
To remove the stain you will need:
- Acetone or medical alcohol;
- Cotton discs.
We carry out the stain removal procedure:
- Soak the disc well with alcohol;
- Treat the stain for 30 minutes until the stain disappears completely;
- If the stain is gone, wash the item in the washing machine.
#3 Use of turpentine
You'll need:
- Turpentine;
- Cotton pads;
- Medical alcohol.
We carry out the procedure:
- Soak the tar stain with turpentine using a cotton pad;
- Wait 30 minutes;
- Wet a clean cotton pad with alcohol;
- Remove the resin with an alcohol-soaked cotton pad;
- Wash the item in the washing machine with powder and conditioner for clothes;
- Hang the item in fresh air.
Turpentine is a representative solvent with unpleasant odors. That is why the thing should be washed well and hung out in the fresh air.
You'll need:
- Dry paper towels or napkins;
- Ironing board;
- hot iron;
- Medical alcohol;
- Turpentine.
Removing the stain:
- Mix alcohol and turpentine (in proportions 1 to 1);
- Apply the mixture to the stain;
- Apply dry wipes to the stain;
- Iron the item through the napkins with an iron;
- Replace soiled wipes with new clean ones;
- Wash the item well with the powder and hang it out in the fresh air.
Continue ironing until the resin disappears.
Removing old resin stains
old, forgotten resin stains removing from clothes will be a little more difficult than fresh ones. But you can still withdraw them using the following methods:
#1 Using clay, turpentine, starch and alcohol
To remove the stain you will need:
- White clay;
- Turpentine;
- Ammonia;
- Potato starch;
- Plate;
- Tea spoon;
- Clothes brush.
Eliminate pollution:
- Mix starch and clay in a plate (in proportions of 1 to 1);
- Pour in enough turpentine to make a mushy consistency;
- Add 3 drops of alcohol;
- Put the resulting mixture with a spoon on the stain and rub it into the fabric;
- Leave the thing until the slurry is completely dry;
- Scrub the dry mixture with a clothes brush;
- If resin remains, repeat the procedure again.
If a yellow stain remains after removing the resin, it can be removed with a bleaching agent.
#2 Use of turpentine, ammonia and starch
You'll need:
- Potato starch - 1 tablespoon;
- Turpentine - 3 drops;
- Ammonia - 3 drops;
- Plate;
- Clothes brush.
Getting the resin out of the fabric:
- In a bowl, mix turpentine, ammonia and starch;
- Apply the resulting mixture to the stain and wait until it dries;
- Wipe the gruel with a brush;
- Wash the item in the washing machine with the addition of powder and conditioner, hang to dry in fresh air.
If you have children, then after a walk they can easily walk on the carpet in their shoes. This can be both after walking through the coniferous forest, and during the flowering of poplars, when resin stickies stick everywhere. If left a tar mark on the carpet The following advice will help you get rid of it.
You'll need:
- Clean sponge for washing dishes;
- Gel dishwashing liquid;
- Vegetable oil.
We clean the floor covering:
- Apply vegetable oil to the stain and rub with a sponge;
- Resin is easily removed;
- We remove the grease stain after the oil with a damp sponge, on which detergent should be applied;
- Rub the place of contamination well;
- Vacuum.
Removing black tar from clothes
In hot summer days clothes can be stained by molten black tar that drips from the roof top. You can just as easily remove it from clothes:
- Wet a cotton pad with vegetable oil and wipe the place of contamination;
- Grease can be removed by wiping the stain with a damp cloth.
Remember! what if on things made of leatherette or things made of genuine leather a tar stain appears, then in no case should it be cleaned off with chemicals - in order to avoid the abundant appearance of a faded stain.
If you are afraid to ruin the item with chemicals or are sure that you can clean the tar stain yourself, then it is better to take the item to a dry cleaner.
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Resin stains on clothes are the most persistent, so it may seem that a thing with such contamination is hopelessly damaged. However, it is not. Removing, removing, washing or washing resin from clothes is not an easy task, but it is quite doable. Using improvised means, you can clean the fabric of any stain. The main thing is to follow a certain algorithm.
Resin types
Resin is a vegetable or synthetic substance that normally has a solid structure. But under the influence of temperature, it begins to melt and becomes viscous, plastic, and can roll down surfaces. The substance has a complex composition and therefore it is difficult. There are several types:
- Vegetable - these are woody, for example, from linden or poplar, coniferous: thuja resin, pine, spruce.
- Synthetic - the most common: bitumen, which is used to cover roofs, repair roads.
Depending on the type of resin, different cleaning products are used in home dry cleaning.