OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover can eliminate even the toughest of tomato sauce or ketchup stains, leaving you free to enjoy grandma's delicious dinners without worry.
Ketchup stains can wind up anywhere, including your carpet. To remove ketchup stains from carpet, use OxiClean™ Carpet & Area Rug Stain Remover Spray and these easy steps. Immediately blot up the excess ketchup as much as possible. The quicker you can treat the stain, the easier it will be to remove.
How to REMOVE KETCHUP STAINS - Remove as much of the stain as you can and blot with a cloth. - Mix a small about of detergent and cold water together and blot until the stain begins to disappear. - If you still have a stain, combine 2 parts hydrogen peroxide and one part Dawn Ultra Dish Soap. - Work it into the s.
Equal parts baking soda and hydrogen peroxide mixed into a paste can help remove ketchup stains from clothing. Once you have created the paste, spread it over the stain and allow it to sit for up to twenty minutes.
Use OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover powder for versatile applications. Can I use OxiClean™ Max Force™ Laundry Stain Remover Spray on wool or silk items? OxiClean™ MaxForce™ is not designed to be used on dry clean only fabrics and should not be used on wool or silk items.
Always test OxiClean™ Versatile Stain Remover on an inconspicuous area first. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for the item for water temperature and for cleaning. Do not use on wool, wool blends, silk, silk blends, leather, or any fabrics labeled dry clean only.
OxiClean contains several ingredients, but the important one for boosting and brightening laundry is sodium percarbonate — basically, dry hydrogen peroxide plus washing soda (also called sodium carbonate, which is very similar to but not exactly baking soda).
Ketchup is a tricky stain, but not necessarily a permanent one!
Add Some Baking Soda
If your tomato sauce is too acidic and verging on bitter, turn to baking soda, not sugar. Yes, sugar might make the sauce taste better, but good old baking soda is an alkaline that will help balance the excess acid. A little pinch should do the trick.
Dawn dish soap effectively removes ketchup stains due to its grease-cutting properties. It breaks down the oils and pigments in ketchup, lifting the stain from the fabric. To use: apply Dawn to the stain, gently rub it in, and let sit for a few minutes; then launder as usual.
You can also use heavy -duty laundry detergent and home ingredients like baking soda, vinegar, and lemon juice to remove set-in tomato sauce stains from clothing.
Launder as usual with your favorite detergent and either ⅓ cup Clorox® Disinfecting Bleach for bleach-safe whites or Clorox 2® for Colors Stain Remover and Laundry Additive for colors or white items with spandex.
Blot with a clean rag and dish soap solution (mix 1 tbsp. dish soap + 10 oz water in a bottle to use in the laundry), working from the outside in to prevent the stain from spreading. Flush with vinegar to help remove more of the ketchup from the clothing.
Possible agents include hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar applied with a sponge. You can also use lemon juice on white fabrics. Rinse well. Repeat with detergent followed by mild bleaching agent until the stain no longer appears.
You Could Also Add Baking Soda
The baking soda raises the pH level of the sauce, neutralizing the acidity, and resulting in a sauce that tastes less acidic to us. As effective as this method can be, it also comes with a warning: if you add too much baking soda, the sauce will turn bitter.
You can add a little bit of sugar when the sauce is done cooking, a pinch at a time, until the sauce is sweet enough for you. A teaspoon of sugar is the maximum amount I recommend for a 28oz can of tomatoes. I do NOT recommend using other sweeteners such as agave syrup, honey, brown sugar, or maple syrup.
Add a little milk to tomato sauce for a sweeter taste to offset the acidity of the tomatoes. This is a well-kept secret amongst Italian grandmothers. In northern Italy, Bolognese sauce is never made without milk! It can be added at the beginning or end of cooking.
Some of the toughest food stains to remove include coffee, tea, gum, peanut butter, mustard, berry juice, tomato-based sauces, baby food, red wine, chocolate, cooking grease and butter. For coffee or tea stains, rinsing in hot water or treating with dishwashing liquid can be effective.
Bleach. Using an eyedropper, soak the stain with diluted vinegar to bleach any of the stain residue. Ketchup's red color tends to sink into fibers. Repeat until the stain is gone or almost gone.
Solve Tomato/Ketchup Stains At Home with Shout® Advanced Gel Brush. Shout® Advanced Ultra Concentrated Gel Brush is the best product for this type of stain, but our other products will work as your next-best option.
Don't use it on jewelry, wicker, or other non-suggested materials and surfaces. OxiClean should not be used to clean the following materials: jewelry, latex paints, woven baskets, unpainted wicker, jute, teak, or finished wood.
In terms of effectiveness, no as the vinegar destroys the power of the oxiclean. Oxiclean is a mix od sodium carbonate, bicarbonate and hydrogen peroxide. Adding acid (like vinegar) just decomposes this mixture into carbon dioxide and oxygen (along with sodium acetate and water).
OxiClean™ White Revive™ Laundry Whitener & Stain Remover is a non-chlorine bleach alternative. It has oxygen bleach and is color safe, so you can use it on white items that might have stripes, logos or other forms of coloration!