Olive oil is a healthy oil for cooking and eating.
Olive oil is a healthy oil with which to cook foods or use in salad dressings. When olive oil ends up on fabric it forms a type of oil or grease stain that can attract other dirt particles to the fabric if the stain is not fully removed. Treat olive oil stains on your clothing or upholstery fabric with basic supplies from the kitchen or laundry room. The sooner the stain is treated, the less likely it is to spread or attract more dirt.
Instructions
Removing Olive Oil Stains From Clothing
1. Lay your olive oil-stained garment on a flat surface and pour baking soda over the site of the stain. Allow the baking soda to sit on the clothing for 15 minutes to absorb some of the olive oil.
2. Flush the site of the olive oil stain on your clothing with warm water. Squirt some liquid hand dishwashing liquid onto the olive oil stain and rub the fabric together to work the detergent into the fibers. Leave the detergent on the olive oil stain for about five minutes to break down the grease stain, much in the same way the detergent cuts grease from your dishes.
3. Soaking a stained garment overnight often lifts the stain.
Fill a bucket halfway with warm water and add 2 tsp. of the dishwashing detergent. Mix the solution with your hands to make soap suds. Allow your olive oil-stained garment to sit in the soapy solution overnight.
4. Remove your clothing from the bucket and wring it out completely. Wash your garment, according to directions, using laundry detergent and the hottest water allowable to remove any olive oil stain remnants.
Removing Olive Oil Stains From Fabric Upholstery
5. Scoop up any olive oil substance sitting on top of the upholstery. Discard in the trash, rather than down the sink drain.
6. Cover the olive oil stain on your upholstery with baking soda and allow the baking soda to sit for 15 minutes as it absorbs the oil.
7. Vacuum the baking soda from the upholstery.
8. Pour dry cleaning solvent on a clean cloth and apply it to the olive oil stain on your fabric upholstery with the cloth. Dab the solvent into the upholstery fibers without scrubbing or rubbing.
9. Dry cleaning solvent removes olive oil from washable or non-washable fabric upholstery.
Blot the upholstery with another clean cloth to remove the dry cleaning solvent. Alternate applying the dry cleaning solvent and blotting it up until the olive oil stain is removed.
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