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The idea is similar to the use of salt and/or club soda, which contains some salt.

In a pinch, a few drops of saline solution can be used to remove small splatters of red wine from clothing or other fabrics.

Then, you can treat the residual staining with a product like Resolve, all without risking flooding the stain and causing it to spread. This technique is particularly helpful on large spills on carpet, upholstery, or tablecloths because it will remove a good deal of the wine. The idea is to use table salt as a desiccant on a fresh red wine stain by pouring a liberal amount on the spill and allowing the salt to soak up the wine. This is my favorite trick for treating red wine stains, it's so weird and great. is particularly helpful on large spills. Just like when employing white wine, you may want to apply the club soda to a cloth so that you can control how much you're using. The club soda treatment is probably best used for smaller stains on clothing, or when there's a spill on carpeting (this article in Scientific American explains a bit more about how the club soda works on stains). You've probably heard people call for club soda after spilling a bit of red wine, and oftentimes simply dabbing a stain with club soda will do the trick. Now then, this will work (DON'T QUESTION THE STREISAND) but if you prefer, as I do, to drink your white wine rather than use it as a stain remover, stick with me - because here are a whole bunch of other ways to cope if you've spilled red wine. If the red wine spill is a larger one on carpeting or furniture, you can pour the white wine directly onto the stain and blot it up, but be careful not to pour too much out.įor older, more set-in stains, white wine can be combined with baking soda.įor older, more set-in stains, white wine can be combined with baking soda start by applying white wine to the stain, then put baking soda on top of the wine and allow it to sit for 30-90 minutes, dampening with water as needed, before washing or wiping away the soda and treating the area with a small amount of soap. As the stain appears to lighten, refresh the wine on the cloth and keep repeating as necessary. The way to use white wine to remove red wine stains is to apply the white to a cloth - a bar towel or napkin would be a great choice here, since those are things that tend to be available in situations in which you might be drinking red wine - and to use that cloth to dab at the stain. Well let's just start with the white wine trick, since we're already on the subject. If you prefer to hear, rather than read, check out the red wine episode of Ask A Clean Person.

Red vox youtube how to#

I share that anecdote because I'm dedicated to Housewives frippery and also because it makes for a great lead-in to today's discussion about how to remove red wine stains from clothes, furniture, carpeting and so on.

Most importantly, Kyle Richards needs to take several seats. Here's the thing: Barbra Streisand is entirely right here and also? Barbra Streisand totally does seem like the type to know an odd little tidbit, like that white wine can be used to remove a red wine stain. Kyle Richards snottily observes, "I'm certainly not going to take laundry advice from Barbra Streisand." She explains that her mother-in-law had been at a party at Barbra Streisand's house, spilled some red wine and Babs used white wine to take out the stain. There's an episode in Season 3 of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in which friend-of-the-'wives Marisa Zanuck attempts to remove a small red wine stain from her white Alaia dress using white wine. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years.