On Jul 22, 2007, at 18:03, Ruth Budge wrote:
I think the success of the treatment depends on a couple of
things....
First, you have to act very quickly!! Grab the salt as quickly as you
can
after the spill and ....
Put a LOT of salt on the stains.....
Wash the cloth as soon as possible afterwards (I did it next morning,
and it
worked for me!)
*Exactly so*.
I seem to have "always known it" -- all the above steps -- which means
I must have learnt it at home, as a child. My parents never had any
trouble removing red wine stains using this method and neither have I,
in the 34 yrs I've had my own household.
But all of that is too late for the lady who'd washed her table cloth
without putting the salt on the stain before it had dried. If the stain
is allowed to dry before the salt is applied, the stain will stay. Once
the cloth is washed, without first having put salt on the wet stain,
the stain will stay. And I don't know what to do with an old and set-in
red wine stain...
The method, BTW, doesn't seem to work (or not as well) with red *juice*
stains, which makes me suspect that the "magic" is in the combining of
the chemical properties of the salt and alcohol, rather than those of
salt and grape.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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