Removing blood stains from fabrics?

[Adam]

Anyone got any tips? I've been doing research and it seems hydrogen peroxide is a good bet. Doesn't matter if I bleach the fabric, I just have no clue where to get stuff from - so any other suggestions will be welcome

thanks.

edit: I am serious btw - not a joke thread (on 2nd thought I could see how it could be)

[hardnox71]

Anyone got any tips? I've been doing research and it seems hydrogen peroxide is a good bet. Doesn't matter if I bleach the fabric, I just have to get rid of as much of the evidence as I possibly can, fast- so any other suggestions will be welcome

thanks.

Um, Adam, I know it's really none of my business but just out of curiosity, why the hell do you want to know how to remove blood stains from fabric?

Just out of curiosity, of course.

[Adam]

lets call it an 'accident'.

Seems you can get hydrogen peroxide from the chemist. You know can make bombs with the stuff also. I'm sure MI5 are looking at my web cache right now.

If I was paranoid, then my other web activities today have included looking at anti-police protests and how the UK is becoming a police-state. Its lucky I ain't asian otherwise I'd be in a secret cell right now.

If I ain't posting tomorrow, you know why (!)

[mickill]

Just so you're aware, Adam, I don't think that bleach or most household stain removers will entirely remove all DNA associated with most blood stains on clothing. So if the blood belongs to saaaay a dead shemale prostitute - for example - you might just want to rethink trying to salvage the shirt altogether. I'm sure the Gap has plenty others just like it.

[hardnox71]

So if the blood belongs to saaaay a dead shemale prostitute - for example - you might just want to rethink trying to salvage the shirt altogether. I'm sure the Gap has plenty others just like it.

Made my day.(y):D

[Adam]

shit really? think I should just torch it instead?

They sell it at boots - only cost £1.30 or something.

So you know, its blood in a mattress - yeah pretty disgusting I know but its my blood and its quite an old stain from an wound that reopened in my sleep once and I never sorted it. I don't actually use the mattress atm as its at a different address to where I live, but I am planning on moving back there. Its too comfy to replace.

[hardnox71]

So you know, its blood in a mattress - yeah pretty disgusting I know but its my blood and its quite an old stain from an wound that reopened in my sleep once and I never sorted it.

Just stick to that story with no deviations and you'll be alright.

If you don't give 'em nothin', then they ain't got nothin'.- Goodfellas

[Waus]

Seems you can get hydrogen peroxide from the chemist. You know can make bombs with the stuff also.

Hydrogen Peroxide is really no big deal. Lots of people I know keep some in their medicine cabinet for sterilizing injuries and stuff.

Also I had a boss for a while who liked to gargle with it.

[Adam]

It seems to of done fudge all - left it with the dehumidifier near it. Yeah it says you can gargle it. Wait and see.

[Dorothy Wood]

meat tenderizer should work.


Blood

If still fresh, sponge with cool salted water (1 spoon per cup water) and rinse with clear water
For set blood stains, one of the best recommendations is the use of a commercial meat tenderizer (these are found in the spice section of your supermarket). Meat tenderizer breaks down the proteins in the fibrin strings that form when blood clots, allowing the stain to be released. Other suggestions we have received:
Try an enzyme presoak
Soak in a diaper wash/sanitizer that contains sodium percarbonate (follow label instructions)
Try dilute hydrogen peroxide (1 part : 9 parts water). Rinse well. Be Careful, strong solutions of hydrogen peroxide can bleach fabrics.
Sponge with a lukewarm 10% solution of Oxalic Acid for a few minutes, then rinse well. You can get this from the hardware store paint department or a pharmacy.
Sponge with dilute ammonia (1 spoon per cup). Rinse well. For thick or unwashable articles, e.g. mattresses, carpets, etc., sponge lightly with one of the above solutions. If the stains are still fresh, and the police have left, sprinkle with meat tenderizer or pepsin powder (from your pharmacy), or spread with a thick paste of raw laundry starch and water, leave to dry, then brush off. Wipe with damp cloth an repeat if necessary.

[ms.peachy]

Hydrogen Peroxide is really no big deal. Lots of people I know keep some in their medicine cabinet for sterilizing injuries and stuff.


Oh, you'd be surprised. Back home in the US I always had a whacking great bottle of it in the cabinet, because you can buy a jug of it anywhere, for cheap. Here in the UK, you have to get it from the chemist, in tiny wee bottles, that cost a comparative fortune. Same with witch hazel. Why? I don't know.

[Adam]

^chemistry to us Brits is still witchcraft.

[funk63]

Burn it in a fire is the only way.

[Adam]

Burn it in a fire is the only way.

aren't mattresses mainly wool? And isn't wool non-flammable*?


*I nearly put inflammable but that means flammable right? unflammable seem wrong. anti-flammable? English language is stupid.

[funk63]

aren't mattresses mainly wool? And isn't wool non-flammable*?


*I nearly put inflammable but that means flammable right? unflammable seem wrong. anti-flammable? English language is stupid.

I'll go try and light mine up, brb.

[Bob]

aren't mattresses mainly wool? And isn't wool non-flammable*?


*I nearly put inflammable but that means flammable right? unflammable seem wrong. anti-flammable? English language is stupid.

inflammable does indeed mean flammable. just say "shit what don't burn too good"

[Adam]

fudging 'ell it worked pretty damn well.

More or less cleared it and this stain was proper deep orange - I'm sure at least I lost a pint that day cus I woke up feeling pretty weak - a lot weaker than after giving blood for example.

But then it was my fault for not getting stitches because there was a queue...

So now you all know - hydrogen peroxide will get these hooker stains... ...I mean erm...

...that the cops?

[b-grrrlie]

Blood stains are easiest to get rid off when they're still fresh, just rinse the cloth in really hot water (boiling even, if the fabric can stand it.)
Peroxide bleaches the colours so you shouln't be using that.

[Randetica]

i hoped for more period speak in this thread