Detergent

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1. I’m not sure about wool but this stuff right here I do stain treatments on my white clothes and just wash it regularly with laundry powder and it takes it right out.

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2. You can try 女性用洗剤, It’s pretty good for washing period blood on mattresses but not sure about wool

3. For wool, [you can use エマール (EMAL)](https://www.kao.com/jp/en/products/emal/4901301349071/). It’s available where ever you can buy detergent. I’ve used it with my wool clothes and it works.

   You can use this in your regular laundry machine, but make sure it’s on “ソフト” or Delicates setting and obviously do not spin dry. Let it air dry as is.

4. For wool エマール, for white clothes probably any powder detergent

5. Spot treat with ウタマロ Utamaro soap before washing

6. No advice for wool, but for white clothes and generally stains that just won’t drop I lately have been doing 6-12 hour soaks with Oxiclean. I heard the formulation is different from back in the US, but it works.

7. You can get Oxydol (オキシドール) from the drugstore to spot treat the blood. Regular detergent won’t be enough to remove stains, I don’t think. Also, be sure to use cold water, as hot water will just “cook” it and set the stains in deeper.

8. Erisode エリソデ in the red bottle with the sponge applicator is amazing. It has removed some stains, including coffee, that not even oxyclean max force could remove!

9. If it happens again in the future, take your white shirt and wash with super cold water and scrub. It tends to remove most of the color. I managed to get off up to around 90% of the stain and the washing machine does the rest for me. There was even a time when immediately hand washing my stained shirt removed the whole stain without use of anything else.

10. There are various detergents made just for blood stains (targeted towards women) and are available in most drugstore in the same area that sanitary products are kept – even Daiso has some.

11. The sooner you can treat a blood spot with cold water the better. I can usually get it out with cold water alone, sometimes have to use a bit of soap. Only messed with oxyclean and the like if it has dried in for weeks. If you used hot water or it’s been in a dryer I’ve never been able to get it completely out.

12. The wool coat is probably dry clean only.

    For the shirt, if the blood is fresh then run it under a cold tap, it will come out with only cold water. Don’t use hot water though, that will set it into the fabric.
    If the blood is dry, soak in Oxiclean (available from any drugstore) then wash a normal.

13. Some washing machines have a sonic cleaning function, ask handheld sonic spot cleaners are sold, and they are pretty good at getting caked on or dried on stuff. If it’s already penetrated the fibers, chemicals are better, though.

14. If you’ve already washed the shirt, you probably won’t get the stain out.

15. Just to say something that hasn’t been mentioned yet – only wash with cold water. Warm water will set the blood.

16. Nobody asking how they got the blood there, eh? For shame.

17. If you have access to hydrogen peroxide, I recommend using it on you white clothing.
    You leave it work for 10 minutes or so, and then rinse under cold water. My sister recommended me this trick since they use it in the hospital, and worked wonders when my underwear got stained.

    It only works with blood that hasn’t dried yet tho. Not sure if it works with wool.

    Edit: I use The Laundress wool and cashmere soap for my wool and cashmere pieces of clothing. I hand wash them since they are delicate, and it doesn’t require that much detergent.

18. buy some ‘ladies detergent’ at daiso. you just spot treat (it is meant to remove period stains basically) and it works wonders. having little kids taht sometimes get nosebleeds, it’s great.

19. oh and basically, always cold water. physical dischrages such as blood has protein. heat cooks protein and it will remain as a stain. always cold water!

20. I’d say it’s worth taking it to a cleaner.

    Also, is everyone just skirting around the fact OP straight up murdered someone?

21. hydrogen peroide for blood on whites…..not sure if you can let it dry out though….definately works on cotton….seems like it needs to be diluted on wool though

22. Try dr.Beckmann detergent for blood stains – I buy on Amazon, works good for me.

23. I generally try washing things by hand with cold water while the blood is still wet and that’s worked well for me.

24. Cold water! Do not put it in warm water or you’ll set it in for good.