Dye family: alcohol or a long oxygen soak
How to get orange veggie purée out
Carrot, sweet potato and squash get their colour from carotene, which acts like an oil-soluble dye.
Do this first
Scrape off
Fresh stain
- Scrape off
- Rinse cold from the back
- Work in dish soap (carotene dissolves in oil, not water)
- Gently work in detergent and wash warm
- Dry in the sun
Dried or old
- Dish soap and leave overnight
- Oxygen bleach soak
- Sun-dry, repeat
- Fabric care
- Safe on cotton. Sun is the secret weapon.
- Time
- 15 min plus sun
- How to tell
- Look: bright orange; Feel: slightly pasty; Smell: vegetable
Where this fix comes from
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Before you start
- Test on a hidden seam first.
- Never mix cleaners.
- Keep it out of the dryer until the stain is gone.