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Bleaches
are the key and final step to stain removal in many cases for the amateur and professional.
Bleaches (dye strippers): 2. Sodium Perborate 3. Sodium Percarbonate 4. Sodium Hypochlorite 5. Potassium Permanganate 6. Sodium Bisulfite 7. Sodium Hydrosulfite 8. Titanium Sulfite (or Titanium Chloride) Stripper (Must in every shirt laundry).
The chart list 8 bleaches and how to increase strength or decrease strength. How to soak or spot. How long to soak and what temperature. What fabrics to stay away from. What is an oxygen bleach and what is a reducing bleach. What bleaches are opposites and may reduce the strength or cause color change or correct color change. All bleaches (or dye strippers) carry a risk of affecting dye. A quick test will help increase your chance for success, even on colored fabrics. We even list a few spots the bleaches remove best. " 3 page guide to 8 bleaches"
Home or work or professional cleaner........Bleach
The next time you hear or read in an article or book on how to remove spots and the last resort is ...bleach ? You will know which of the 8 bleaches or which of the two families of bleaches oxidizing or reducing is best to use first. The so called expert wishes they could tell you about stain removal but resorts to junk information like hair spray on ink...(lacquer and alcohol on a dry clean only especially silk)...not good and now you have a second spot HAIR SPRAY to get out. |