What is beetroot? Well, a plant with a thick stem and large leaves with reddish midrib and greenish flowers is used in the kitchen for a lot of delicious recipes. But you already know this, right? What’s more, if you’re reading these lines, it’s because it’s a food that’s rarely lacking in your kitchen, that’s why the ‘my sweater got stained’, ‘it splashed on my jeans’ has happened to you more than once. Eleven, right? Don’t worry, you don’t have to leave that Just to walk around the house, there are a series of useful tricks to remove beetroot stains from clothes completely and forever. We tell you right now!

Tips to remove beetroot stains from your clothes

Beetroot is a most versatile food, it can be eaten raw (well washed), in salads, cooked as another ingredient in stews… Now, what does not seem so simple is removing the dark spots it leaves on clothes due to, you know, carelessness.

If you just got stained, for example, that shirt, hurry up and go to the tap to submerge the garment under plenty of warm water. What you are doing with this is preventing the stain from drying out. Add a pinch of dish soap, rub gently and rinse, the stain should be largely gone. Next, put the shirt in the and wash it along with the rest of the laundry. You will see that it is like new.

Let’s now see how to treat beetroot stains on clothes according to the fabric it has.

Beet stains on cotton garments

If the stain in question is on a garment made mostly of cotton, what you should do is rub the juice directly on the stain.

Then leave it to soak in cold water for a while to finish softening and, to finish, wash it in the washing machine on the appropriate program. If possible let it air dry.

Beet stains on a leather garment

Soak a piece of cotton with a bit of burning alcohol, rub on the stain to be treated, dry with a clean cloth, wait a few moments and check if the stain is completely gone. If not, she repeats the process again.Leatheris a material that must be taken care of a lot, so be careful with experiments to remove stains of this type, it could end in a total disaster.

And if it is a stain on a wool or silk garment…

Wool is not so much, but silk is very delicate, so the best thing you can do to remove a beetroot stains on garments made of these fabrics, wool and silk, is to use a little coarse salt. Apply to the stain, rub carefully and without applying too much pressure, let it act for a few minutes and remove the salt with the help of a cloth.

Then wash by hand or in the washing machine as directed on. Once the garment is completely dry, there should be no trace of beetroot stain dirt, if not, do not hesitate to repeat the process as we have just seen, there are times when stains that are more encrusted or dry for several days or even weeks need to be treated several times for them to disappear completely.