by Amy
(Utah)
Hi - I visited your site looking for advice on removing blackberry juice stains. My husband was making blackberry jam this evening, and got several splatters of hot blackberry juice on his light green, cotton shirt.
I didn't have any liquid laundry detergent, hydrogen peroxide, or color-safe bleach on hand, so I went the lemon juice route.
You mentioned you didn't have personal experience with this method and would like to hear the results if anyone tried it. Great news! It worked!
By the time I noticed the splatters, some of the stains were up to 3 hours old. There were at least 20 individual stains - most the size of a pencil eraser. I was pretty sure this wasn't going to end well.
First, I ran cold water through each stain. Then I laid the shirt out on our kitchen table and put several drops of lemon juice on each splatter mark. For the bigger stains, I squeezed the bottle briefly to create a stream of juice.
As I was about to walk away to let it set, I noticed one dime-size splatter mark I'd missed completely, hiding in the fold of a cuff. I did not run cold water through this spot, but I did squirt it liberally with lemon juice.
When the timer went off at the 30 minute mark, I was on the phone and whispered to my husband to rinse the juice out of the shirt. I expected him to just leave it on the bathroom counter after the rinse, but instead, he tossed it in the dryer! Unfortunately, I didn't discover this until an hour later.
My original plan had been to rinse out the juice in the sink and run the shirt through the washer; then, IF the stains came out, I would put it in the dryer - but not before. I thought for sure I would find several baked-in blackberry stains all over that shirt.
Instead, there was just one, very faint purple stain - the dime-size mark I didn't run cold water through before applying lemon juice!
In summary, a cold water rinse is clearly important, and lemon juice is simply incredible!!! I couldn't believe my results. I checked the shirt over in good light, and with the exception of the one aforementioned mark, I could not find any sign the shirt had been accosted by hot blackberry juice. Yay!
Lemon juice is my new best friend! Such a simple solution. Love it. Thanks for the recommendation.
Amazing result!***End Update
I had some blackberry stains on my sweater after blackberry picking today.
Washing them with cold water + dish detergent didn't work so I tried to find some stain removal tips online.
It just happened that I had half a lemon sitting in my fridge so I dripped a few drops of lemon juice on the stains and voila! - the stains disappear instantly.
Thank you so much for this tip!
by SR101 Reader
I am very familiar with these types of stains. I always presoak them in BIZ powder. It works miracles.
by Kelly
I got this comment from Kelly on Pinterest (follow me please!) when she read a similar boiling water tip as the one above on this page about removing fruit juice stains.
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Hi, I'm Taylor, a busy mom with 3 kids, so I have lots of hands on experience with house cleaning, laundry and my fair share of spots, spills and other messy catastrophes. Thanks for visiting my site.
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