How To: Remove Old Coffee Stains from your Clothes

Let me guess what you are thinking right now- just from reading the title of this post… “She’s speaking from experience”.

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YEPPP!

OK, this is like super embarrassing and really not like me- but I was shopping at Nordstrom Rack (the actual store… it’s super cool) anyways, I had coffee because morning time duh… and I couldn’t hold all of the THINGS. So I went and got this super awesome cart that you hang things on and you can put stuff in the buggy AND there was a cup holder… SCORE.

Ok, well, in the areas where the clothing racks are in the store, there is like a little ledge and you go from tile to a carpeted area. I pushed my cart onto the carpeted area, my coffee spilled out a little… OK ALOT on to this gorgeous shirt I had sitting in the buggy compartment! Ughhh, I was so sad! There wasn’t another one because it was a clearance rack find and morally speaking I felt kind of obligated to buy it now that I spilled coffee all over it (LOL- I was a mess).

So I was like “oh well, it will wash right out”.

WRONG.

I threw it in the wash when I got home thinking all would be well (no I didn’t spot clean it. no I don’t know why), then when I went to transfer it to the dryer I saw the tag said dry clean only … of course. But it’s 100% polyester so no harm was done. I just layed it flat to dry.

Anyways, I went to throw it on Friday morning and the spots are still there!!

Disclaimer I did wear the shirt because I put a blazer over the spill at the top and I tucked it in enough so you couldn’t see the stain in the front (LOL) Seriously this is not like me.

So, I did some research on how to remove old dried on coffee stains from polyester and cotton.

What you’ll need:

Shaving cream

A white wash cloth or white paper towels (to avoid color transfer)

The spot at the top right is the worst but there were a few other places the coffee spilled too…

First, blot the spot with warm water:

Second, rub the shaving cream into the fabric with a another section of the garment and with your fingers.

Then, with a clean white towel, blot the shaving cream out and let it air dry. I had to do the big spot twice but this did work.

After the spots dried and I was sure the stains were out, I filled my kitchen sink with cool water and submersed the shirt until it was fully saturated to make sure there was no shaving cream left in the fabric. Then, I let it air dry!

Wah-lah! Good. As. New.

This is also supposed to work on carpet, and if this doesn’t do the trick, another, more aggressive option is to mix baking soda with warm water into a paste and rub it into the garment, let it dry and then rinse it out.

I hope this has been helpful!!

Have you ever had this kind of thing happen? (hehe)

keep on keeping on…