{"id":5958,"date":"2017-11-20T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T09:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bensos.com\/rimuovere-le-macchie-cibo-tessuti-cotone\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:51:07","slug":"rimuovere-le-macchie-cibo-tessuti-cotone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bensos.com\/en\/rimuovere-le-macchie-cibo-tessuti-cotone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove food stains from cotton clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes laundry washing by machine, even with a good detergent, may not be enough efficient in removing some stains from cotton clothes: a preliminary treatment with a specific product may be useful.\u00a0 Non ecological detergents (as well as some ecological ones) do contain optical brighteners<\/a>, tending to cover temporarily the stains with a glossy white coat; however, when clothes remains longtime in the dark into a wardrobe, optical brighteners are no longer stimulated by sunlight, the glossy effect vanishes and stains reappear…<\/p>\n

Ecological laundry aim is washing well avoiding not biodegradable and long-term toxic substances<\/strong>, as optical brighteners; moreover, such chemicals are not able to clean, but only to “mask” the soil.<\/p>\n

Some of the most difficult food to be cleaned are greases<\/strong>, mostly EVO (extravergin olive oil) and coloured fruits and vegetables<\/strong>, but wine, tea and coffee too.<\/p>\n

The first recommendation is to clean as soon as we can<\/strong>: with each passing hour or even day, soil substances are liable to be oxidized by the oxygen in the air, so they change their chemical composition, generally becoming stronger and more difficult to remove.<\/p>\n

Here some useful suggestions to treat the various stains:<\/p>\n