Sweat stains on clothes can cause respect if these clothes belongs to the athletes, but yellows stains on a white shirt of an office clerk or a bank worker, for example, destroy the idea of an accurate employee. How to remove sweat stains from the shirts, giving them fresh and pleasant look.

Nowadays there are numbers of different stain removers, but here we would like to mention some of the “helpers” that can be found in any family and home.

• In order to remove sweat stains from wool, cotton or silk products use a usual saline solution. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of salt in a glass of clean water. Apply this solution on the stains and then wash your clothes according to the instruction written on the label. It should be said that this method is more suitable for white or light colored clothes; this method must be carefully applied to the colored fabrics, not resistant to chemicals. Regular salt is also used for the removal of stains from wine, blood, grass and fat.

• Sweat stains on white clothes can be also removed with the help of ammonia solution (1 teaspoon per glass of water). Apply solution on the stain and then thoroughly wash the clothes.

• Not old sweat stains on colored fabrics can be removed with the help of vinegar or citric acid solution. To prepare the solution dissolve 1 tablespoon of vinegar or citric acid in half a glass of water.

• Old sweat stains are removed with the help of the solution of ammonia. I order to remove engrained sweat stains you can also use a mixture of ammonia liquid and ethyl alcohol in equal proportions. After applying this solution on the stains, wash your clothes at the recommended temperature using a special detergent. Ammonia effectively removes not only the sweat stains, but also stains from grass, blood, tea and coffee, grease, glue, iron and rust.

• Sweat stains from silk fabrics can be removed with the help of hyposulphate solution (1 teaspoon should be dissolved in a glass of water). In order to remove stains from silk you can also use a mixture of 10% ammonia liquid and denatured alcohol (1:1 proportion). Denatured alcohol also helps to remove stains from wool, in order to prepare a solution you need to dissolve 1 teaspoon in half a glass of water.

• In order to remove yellow stains from collars and cuffs use petroleum-based soaps and mix it with ammonia liquid in equal amounts. Apply this mixture on a stain and rinse a shirt in warm or hot water adding a few drops of vinegar in it.

• Sweat stains from collars and cuffs can be also removed with the help of a solution made from ammonia liquid, sodium chloride and distilled water in the ration of 4:1:4.