Dye family: alcohol or a long oxygen soak
How to get bleed from new jeans out
Indigo rubs off onto bags, sofas and light clothes.
Do this first
Gently work in detergent
Fresh stain
- Gently work in detergent
- Oxygen soak
- Wash
Dried or old
- Repeat
- Rubbing alcohol on upholstery dabs
- Fabric care
- Wash new jeans alone a few times.
- Time
- 1 h
- How to tell
- Look: blue patches; Feel: normal; Smell: none
Where this fix comes from
- Household folk practice, checked against the guides above
- University of Illinois Extension, Stain Solutions
We check every fix against these published guides. We do not run a test lab of our own.
Before you start
- Test on a hidden seam first.
- Never mix cleaners.
- Keep it out of the dryer until the stain is gone.