Generally, a stain requires special treatment for removal

If you have ever accidentally spilled tea on your clothes and washed it off immediately you must have realized that the stain gets removed quickly

Old stains take long and also a lot of effort to remove, often with poor results.

The best way to get rid of stains is to remove them as soon as possible.

Stains must be removed before washing as some of them may become permanent when exposed to chemicals in soaps or detergents, hot water and ironing.

Different types of stains require specific stain removing techniques and agents, depending on the type of fabric.

Use of incorrect stain removing agent can spoil the fabric or its colour.

Every stain has a specific ________. For example, the colour of curry/pickle stain is _______, a coffee/tea stain is _______, a grass stain is__________ and so on.

Most stains have a peculiar smell.

Egg or paint or shoe polish have a peculiar smell.

The stain on a fabric will have the same smell.

Stains can also change the feel of the fabric

Paint or sugar make the fabric hard and stiff to touch, whereas lipstick or shoe-polish make the fabric feel slippery.

Tea, coffee, fruit

Butter, ghee, oil, curry, shoe polish, tar, oil paints

Blood, milk, egg

Rust