If your clothes have unfortunately gotten dirty from henna, we guess that you will be confused by how to get henna out of clothes, won’t you? Well, the topic today is to talk about the ways to clean this kind of stain out of fabric easily.
What are you waiting for? Let’s check it out!
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How To Get Henna Out Of Clothes?
Here is the secret! This trouble will be handled by seven basic methods without any difficulties as follows. Do you want to learn more about them? Please scroll down right now!
1. Gentle Soap And Warm Water
The first way to get rid of Mehndi stains is to use soap and warm water. We will guide you now in detail in this way.
To be more specific, you scrub a soap into the dirty area of your clothes and use your hands to rub it. Or else, use a smooth sponge before using warm water to wash the scrubbed clothes.
Also, you should proceed this step many times a day to eliminate the henna. We suggest applying a moisturizing lotion subsequently so that the skin of the fabric won’t be dry.
2. Baby Oil
Baby oil is a vital tool for you to remove henna pigments as well as the tattoo.
To proceed, you pour roughly 3 full cups of baby oil into a warm tub. Soak your clothes in about 20 minutes, and wash the baby oil afterward.
Another way is to use a cotton cloth to apply baby oil to the henna and cleanse it after about 15 -20 minutes.
3. Lemon Juice
Do you know why lemon juice is named in this list? The reason is that lemons consist of many features, which help enlighten the skin and remove the stain naturally. It means lemon juice is able to help get henna out of fabric, too.
Here are some basic steps to take:
- Cut a lemon into two pieces.
- Scrub the cut lemon on the clothes smoothly in 3 minutes.
- Cleanse the rubbed clothes with warm water.
- Apply moisturizer to prevent the skin from being dry.
Moreover, if your skin is sensitive, you should be careful while following the steps above. Why? You may ask. Because the lemon juice also contains some acidic characteristics, which can lead to your skin’s irritation.
4. Baking Soda
Baking soda is a friendly “dude” that we can’t ignore because of its effect on stain elimination. Specifically, you can mix baking soda with so that this mixture could remove henna easily.
The first minor step is to prepare a squeezed lemon juice, mix the juice with an appropriate amount of baking soda to have a thick paste. After that, pour this paste into the area having stains, and use warm water to cleanse the clothes after about 10 minutes.
Apart from that, you can make this special paste to use on your fabric once a day. However, don’t forget to moisturize the fabric after the process under any circumstances.
5. Micellar Water
Have you ever heard of micellar water? Basically, micellar water is like cleansing water, which possesses many certain particles, called micelles. These particles could smoothly rinse the stained clothes, makeup, oil and other pigments.
About the ways to proceed with this method, you just need to use a (cotton) cloth to pour the micellar water into the henna stain smoothly. And then, softly scrub that stained area by your hands before washing the clothes with fresh water.
6. Alcohol
Alcohol? You must be perplexed by hearing of cleansing the henna by alcohol, right? There’s no odd thing here! Alcohol is an effective item to clear away the henna out of fabric.
Getting rid of the henna stain will be very easy if you rub alcohol, which has a good ability to tackle dye stains, on the fabric. You have to dampen a (cotton) cloth with a certain amount of alcohol. Afterwards, clean the stain with that wet cloth until your clothes are fresh without henna anymore. That’s the whole process!
7. Milk
In case the henna stain doesn’t disappear at all, milk will be an efficient assistant for you.
All you have to do is to prepare half a mug of milk, and heat it in a pan until it is half-hearted. Next, take a bowl and pour cooked milk into it. Put the stained area of the clothes over the bowl, and slowly submerge it into the milk.
Remember that you should soak your clothes for about 30 minutes before taking them out of the bowl, and add a little soap to the stain to scrub. The last step is to rinse the clothes as clean as possible.
How To Keep Safety While Cleaning Henna Out Of Clothes?
You know, henna is considered a tannin stain. In other words, this kind of stain is like a plant-based stain which consists of a lot of tannins. For instance, tea and coffee are classified as tannin stains, as well. Therefore, if you want to remove tannin stains, you could try to use a remover that is specialized to eradicate these stains and highly safe for cloth.
Another case is that you must get the henna stains out of many pillowcases (when you usually dye your hair with henna), it would be helpful if using a pillowcase which has the same color as your hair color. It means that you don’t really need to clean the henna stains anymore.
When applying one of the mentioned-above solutions, we suggest you put on gloves to get the best safety.
Final Call
On the whole, we have detailedly introduced you to seven specific approaches on how to get henna out of clothes. We guess that you now understand our simple methods, don’t you? Oh, please remember all safety suggestions we have given to you.
Have a nice day!
