blood stains on white dress

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I have rinsed it in cold water but still a stain, how can I get it out?

How did you get it in . What sort of material is it?

it is cotton, it is dd1s favourite dress and I changed my pjs in the night as leaked period all over them and obviously put them on top of it in the laundry basket (not really with it at 4am)

I have been there and done the leaky period in the night. No murder cover up then. I use Ace bleach on DS1's footy kits and it has always got rid of all stains.

thanks never thought of belach. will get some tommorw then.

It's in a tall green bottle in the washing powder section.

ds1 got blood on his football top (white and green stripes) which was unfortunately thrown in the washing basket and left for two weeks to dry in completely. I used that oxy whitening stuff which i added to hot water and left it to soak overnight and then washed it, adding more of the oxy stuff and all the stains came out.

is it worth trying to wash it with the other whites first or will that make it worse?

have you washed it yet? I normally rinse in cold water and then wash in the machine with bio powder. Has worked on dd's sheets, etc that she bled on during a nose bleed

It will set if you wash it with the other whites. Blood comes out best in cold. Like Sparklingbrook, I use ACE (it has to be ACE). Pour some on the stain then wash in cold water. Cotton holds stains better, so you need to be more careful with it - don't let it dry if poss.

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no not washed yet, is in the bathroom sink soaking in cold water. will leave it and get the bleach tommorow then.

Try salt. If you put a load of salt on it, and rub, it should take the blood out. Keep rinsing it in cold, and putting more salt on, till it comes out.

oh that I cn try now.

Or you can take it out of the water, leave it damp, and pile salt on the blood stain, leave for half an hour, rinse in cold and repeat as necessary...

If it's cotton you can wash at 90 degrees, just put some bleach on the blood stained part first.

Don't bleach - id just wash it first and see - I'd leave it soaking overnight in water

salt is usually quite good. sprinkle a load on stain, leave for a while then wash at 40. I wouldn't wash too hot in case it sets the stain. Also shout.

I am always dealing with teenage period knickers which they stuff in drawers or down the side of cupboards???

this seems to work.

You know salt can set a stain though?

I just spray chlorine bleach on whites with stains on them. Never had a problem yet.

Never wash blood hot. It cooks the proteins and makes them harder to remove. Dab with cheap thin bleach, wash at 30 deg with bio and vanish powder.

I am sure salt reacts with blood and draws the stain out but don't quote me on it.

it came out
so proess in total was.
cold water soak.
rub salt, rinse, did nothing so put salt on and left for 30 mins.
covered in vanish rub on stuff and washed at 90.
rest of the dress looks whiter than it has for some time as well.