How to get dried vomit stains and stiffness out of a comforter
Bodily fluids like vomit and heavy sweat leave behind stubborn discoloration and stiff fabric that standard spot cleaning fails to fix. This leaves people unable to fully restore their bedding, as the stain sets in and the material loses its softness.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Pouring water, scraping it off, and applying baking soda
- 2Spot cleaning
- 3Washing in a large front loader at a laundromat
- 4Sending the item to a laundry service
- 5Using an enzymatic cleaner, dish soap, or stain remover
- 6washing warm, delicates cycle, dryed at max dryness delicate
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm trying to get my fitted bed sheets clean, but I have no idea how to get out the dark stains on the top of the bed sheets and make the entire bed sheets as clean as the side of it.”source ↗
“Like the title says I'm someone that sweats a lot and is trying to start getting things clean again”source ↗
Where this came up
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