Period blood stains in laundry

[highgirl]

My daughter's stained pants went through a rinse then a wash. They are still stained do I need to re wash all of the laundry or just the pants are these just harmless stains left? Please answer

Unless any of the other laundry is marked then no I wouldn't. I would just put the pants back in on there own and see if the stains come out.

Soak the pants for a few hours or over night in a highly concentrated solution of biological washing powder and the stains should come out

Why would you rewash all the laundry?

Do a cold soak before washing next time.

Just put some washing powder in a bucket, I add boiling water to dissovle the powder then add cold water, then put in the item that is stained and leave it to soak for a while, most stains come out.

Bin them, knickers are cheap and you'll use too much water/powder etc trying to clean them...environmentally more friendly and less work for you :)

Bin them. If the stain doesn't come out the first time it never will. In future the best thing is Vanish before they go in the wash - the hard soap bar of vanish, not the spray or the powder in the wash.

If the stain is fresh, soaking in cold water with plenty of salt works as well.

Use Biotex, and leave to soak for at least two days. That usually does the trick

Do you mean have ou contaminated the rest of te laundry? If so- don't be daft. Just bin the pants.

I wouldn't even bin the pants, I'd keep them as 'period pants'.

Cold soak withsoke salt or vanish bar as above.
Oh, and buy her some black knickers!

Agree with dr

I always use cold water and lots of salt, soak for a few hours then wash. You could try that but as they've already been washed it may not work. Depends if they were on a hot wash as heat effectively cooks the blood and that sets the stain into the fabric.

Didn't see that fengirl had already recommended salt, sorry

Vanish spray and biological detergent works very well IME (certainly got all the blood out after my home birth!)

For future ref, you need cold water to get blood out, once you wash item in warm water it is set. So cold soak prior to washing is the way to go.

Then find Vanish stain sticks (the old fashioned blocks that require elbow grease) very effective on organic stains.

[Tried salt water once and it set it even more, but maybe I was doing it incorrectly?] Isn't salt used for setting dyes though?

black cotton knickers only, for teenaged girls

Ammonia will get out blood stains. That said, I've never figured out where to buy it in Britain.

Rinse under a hot tap with a squirt of Fairy liquid then bung through with normal wash.

Do not use boiling water as it sets the stain. Salt and cold water does work but ime you have to soak over night and rinsing under the tap is quick.

Buy the cheapest black knickers from Primark, problem solved.

Yy black knickers!