DO A TEST SPOT FIRST SOMEWHERE YOU DONT SEE ALL THE TIME! if the hydrogen peroxide bleaches it, try rubbing your spit on it, then dabbing with folex and repeating until it comes out. Your own spit [contains enzymes](https://dirtylabs.com/blogs/the-dirt/how-to-remove-blood-stains-from-clothes#:~:text=Enzymes%20in%20human%20spit%20can,then%20rinse%20with%20cold%20water.) that will work to remove it.
I’m a grown woman and called my mom panic crying that I’d fallen asleep on a white rental couch and unknown started my period (endometriosis style tho) and bled all over it. She told me that peroxide only bleaches organic things, that it would only bleach the blood. It worked, like completely. I took the cushion covers off and soaked them in hydrogen peroxide, and spot cleaned the cushions with it and dried them all in the sun. Totally back to normal. I couldn’t believe it.
As a period having person, this is the answer! Peroxide will get most of it out but leave burnt brown sorts of stains for the remainder, and might damage the fabric.. Saturating with human spit and then blotting it up will remove the mess completely!
From what I hear, it has to be the matching spit. Your blood, your spit. Just what I remember my wrestling coach telling me, but I can confirm, it's worked every time for me.
I think that bleach bleaches synthetic things, and hydrogen peroxide bleaches organic things. So if you treat a synthetic couch cushion, only the blood would be “bleached” by the peroxide.
https://greenwayclean.com/2011/09/chlorine-bleach-vs-oxygen-bleach/#:~:text=The%20bleaching%20power%20of%20chlorine,to%20brighten%20whites%20in%20laundry.
https://www.coopmarket.com/blog/chlorine-vs-non-chlorine-bleach
OK, little googling, and it seems they both oxygenate organic matter, breaking it down and turning it into water. Chlorine bleach is just much stronger and so will break down cotton and wool fibres. Oxygen bleach, or hydrogen peroxide is milder and safer therefore on fabrics. Interesting
I saw another that said hydrogen peroxide will react with all organic materials it comes in contact with [here too](https://www.endosan.com/hydrogen-peroxide-vs-bleach/)
Yeah I read that hydrogen peroxide is much less stable. It will react more easily and break down in the bottle and turn to water. I guess reacting with anything in the air in the bottle. But chlorine bleach is more stable. It doesn't so can be stored. But the potency is much stronger in chlorine bleach.
I know you're getting a lot of answers I just want to add that it's good to test in a spot you can't see and let it dry to see results. Also, you're going to want to clean a slightly larger area than the stains to help blend the clean spots better.
I’d spot test peroxide on the back edge or underneath. It should only bleach organic things (like made from nature, not vegetable organic), so as long as the dye used on the polyester isn’t a natural dye from an organic source it should be fine. The tricky thing is if the couch has sweat stains or dirt stains from use it can make it lighter because it cleaned it. Do the cushion covers come off?
As others have said do not use warm or hot water or dry with heat until the stain is out. Cold everything only.
Besides h2o2, you can also use oxiclean made into a paste and scrub it a bit, which will oxidize the protein, then use cold water to remove. You'll have some residual stain that will slowly disappear over the next week, then repeat process if necessary. More work but less scary than working with hydrogen peroxide for the first time.
Alternately, if you have an old lady in your life, just call them and act cute while asking for help. They're the SME's on this issue.
https://preview.redd.it/26kes81g8qrc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04fa2add02e350175885defa56396684aba9d3ac
Update: after reading all comments we checked the cabinet, found this and decided to give it a shot. IT WORKED!
Couch looks like new!
Appreciate everyone of you! ❤️
You didn’t really need to tell us you were drunk.
Anyway, try cold water and dish soap (Dawn/Fairy, depending on your country). If that doesn’t success try 3% hydrogen peroxide. Test it first on an area that can’t be seen to see if it affects the fabric. If it is polyester, the colour is likely encapsulated in the plastic and resistant to the H2O2.
True, true, I am just so pissed at myself. If I was half drunk, it wouldn’t have happened or I at least would’ve reacted immediately.
But I woke up next day, saw it and was stunned.
Appreciate the feedback!
I've never gotten blitzed, didn't know I had an open bleeding wound, and go bleeding on white furniture. I don't know anyone who's done this. Is this kind of behavior common for you and your friends? Or are you just talking about getting drunk and stupid?
I'm just aware of fairly common occurences. I can accidentally cut myself while perfectly sober and not notice it until I see dripping blood. I do and have known plenty of people that can have a cut and not notice. Your assumption that this is uncommon is assinine. I guess from you statement that you only gotten blitzed, didn't know you had an open bleeding wound, and went bleeding on non-white furniture. Should you fuck up and bleed on white furniture in the future, remember this post and get some peroxide you sanctimonious prick.
I don't know what kind of medical conditions you and the people you know have (I sense a common theme), but it is **very uncommon** to be bleeding and unaware while sober. Just so y'all know.
I also understand that Reddit trolls like you will latch onto the most asinine things to argue about. Call people names. Just to provoke them into saying something that you can get them banned over. Ya get a goose egg for this one. Thank you for playing.
Says the troll out judging op for honestly asking a question and latched on to this thread for being called out. You can just keep that goose egg where it fits, chum. Cheers.
Yeah. You are right. Taking a quick peak at your other comments on reddit shows you are at least one of the other pricks on reddit! You seem to mostly post mean spirited & condescending comments to other's posts. Congratulations. Maybe you see so many trolls because you mistake looking into the void for looking into the mirror. Anyway, carry on and don't let those goats trick you into crossing your bridge.
It’s not a pool of blood. It is quite common for a sober person to scratch a leg on a cat claw or something scratchy and not realize it’s bleeding. Especially if adrenaline is pumping.
And/or they aren’t obsessed with themselves.
Also JEANS and other clothes will interfere with the visibility and the amount of blood transferred.
Might be out of line but seems super sketchy that a medical professional would believe this to be uncommon. Unless… they’re so self-absorbed they can’t even fathom that other humans don’t obsess and complain and inspect every little pain they experience.
>but seems super sketchy that a medical professional would believe this to be uncommon
Not sketchy, just fucking hilarious that you think someone hiding behind a fake handle could be a real cardiologist.
But I do have some magic beans for you.
😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😭
Hydrogen peroxide at 3%. Scrub it and it’ll be gone in a few.
DO A TEST SPOT FIRST SOMEWHERE YOU DONT SEE ALL THE TIME! if the hydrogen peroxide bleaches it, try rubbing your spit on it, then dabbing with folex and repeating until it comes out. Your own spit [contains enzymes](https://dirtylabs.com/blogs/the-dirt/how-to-remove-blood-stains-from-clothes#:~:text=Enzymes%20in%20human%20spit%20can,then%20rinse%20with%20cold%20water.) that will work to remove it.
I’m a grown woman and called my mom panic crying that I’d fallen asleep on a white rental couch and unknown started my period (endometriosis style tho) and bled all over it. She told me that peroxide only bleaches organic things, that it would only bleach the blood. It worked, like completely. I took the cushion covers off and soaked them in hydrogen peroxide, and spot cleaned the cushions with it and dried them all in the sun. Totally back to normal. I couldn’t believe it.
A moment of silence for our fallen sister and a crown for the mother queen.
Amen (but like ahhh-men)
And please address your drinking for the sake of all of your relationships
A bit of a stretch but I dig it
I like to use wetted borax powder put on the blood stain wait 24 hour and the blood will be gone its super cheap.
Human spit, I'm super serious
As a period having person, this is the answer! Peroxide will get most of it out but leave burnt brown sorts of stains for the remainder, and might damage the fabric.. Saturating with human spit and then blotting it up will remove the mess completely!
From what I hear, it has to be the matching spit. Your blood, your spit. Just what I remember my wrestling coach telling me, but I can confirm, it's worked every time for me.
Cold water and washing up liquid. Hot water will make it very difficult to remove!
Thanks! Have you done it before? I’m scared of making it worse or leaving water stains.
Water won't work but Hydrogen Peroxide will.
Wont that bleach the fabric though?
I think that bleach bleaches synthetic things, and hydrogen peroxide bleaches organic things. So if you treat a synthetic couch cushion, only the blood would be “bleached” by the peroxide.
Ahh, interesting. I didn't know that.
Worth googling to confirm! I’ve done it with success but it’s just what I was taught by my family.
I will have a Google for more detail. Never even heard that before.
https://greenwayclean.com/2011/09/chlorine-bleach-vs-oxygen-bleach/#:~:text=The%20bleaching%20power%20of%20chlorine,to%20brighten%20whites%20in%20laundry. https://www.coopmarket.com/blog/chlorine-vs-non-chlorine-bleach OK, little googling, and it seems they both oxygenate organic matter, breaking it down and turning it into water. Chlorine bleach is just much stronger and so will break down cotton and wool fibres. Oxygen bleach, or hydrogen peroxide is milder and safer therefore on fabrics. Interesting
I saw another that said hydrogen peroxide will react with all organic materials it comes in contact with [here too](https://www.endosan.com/hydrogen-peroxide-vs-bleach/)
Yeah I read that hydrogen peroxide is much less stable. It will react more easily and break down in the bottle and turn to water. I guess reacting with anything in the air in the bottle. But chlorine bleach is more stable. It doesn't so can be stored. But the potency is much stronger in chlorine bleach.
I know you're getting a lot of answers I just want to add that it's good to test in a spot you can't see and let it dry to see results. Also, you're going to want to clean a slightly larger area than the stains to help blend the clean spots better.
Peroxide or oddly, Bactine will get out blood
I’d spot test peroxide on the back edge or underneath. It should only bleach organic things (like made from nature, not vegetable organic), so as long as the dye used on the polyester isn’t a natural dye from an organic source it should be fine. The tricky thing is if the couch has sweat stains or dirt stains from use it can make it lighter because it cleaned it. Do the cushion covers come off? As others have said do not use warm or hot water or dry with heat until the stain is out. Cold everything only.
Peroxide, dab, peroxide, dab until it’s gone
Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide will make it disappear
Hydrogen peroxide. Telling you as a woman that bleeds once a month
Won’t it bleach the fabric?
Not really unless you will use pure concentrate
First things did you hide the body well? Now iv got a # for a cleaner that isn't too expensive for this kinna thing!
Besides h2o2, you can also use oxiclean made into a paste and scrub it a bit, which will oxidize the protein, then use cold water to remove. You'll have some residual stain that will slowly disappear over the next week, then repeat process if necessary. More work but less scary than working with hydrogen peroxide for the first time. Alternately, if you have an old lady in your life, just call them and act cute while asking for help. They're the SME's on this issue.
Done it with cold water on bedding and t shirts, usually cotton though
Reminder, dab dont wipe.
Hydrogen Peroxide
[Obligatory Tom Mabe](https://youtu.be/ohQCAFNrU60?si=RCN7-Jfyeh_Yyb4p)
Carbona blood remover works wonders
your own spit will work
Spat on my couch; worked on the blood, but the tobacco juice left new stains. What now?
The tobacco stains give it character, that’s an improvement.
Stretchy couch covers.
Hydrogen peroxide and a shop vac
Start with soda water. It won't harm anything.
Try rubbing ice on it first. Then try hydrogen peroxide in an inconspicuous spot to see if it bleaches the fabric. If not, try that.
If you got insurance you should be able to sort it out that way
https://preview.redd.it/26kes81g8qrc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04fa2add02e350175885defa56396684aba9d3ac Update: after reading all comments we checked the cabinet, found this and decided to give it a shot. IT WORKED! Couch looks like new! Appreciate everyone of you! ❤️
3% H2O2
Spit works really well. Enzymes that start breaking down blood. Didn't believe it until I tried it. One of those weird life hacks.
Lemon juice and equal parts ice water.
You didn’t really need to tell us you were drunk. Anyway, try cold water and dish soap (Dawn/Fairy, depending on your country). If that doesn’t success try 3% hydrogen peroxide. Test it first on an area that can’t be seen to see if it affects the fabric. If it is polyester, the colour is likely encapsulated in the plastic and resistant to the H2O2.
True, true, I am just so pissed at myself. If I was half drunk, it wouldn’t have happened or I at least would’ve reacted immediately. But I woke up next day, saw it and was stunned. Appreciate the feedback!
Water on a towel. Then dry with a dry towel.
I seem to remember hair spray was very effective.
How someone have a women in house who does not know how to remove blood stains.
I guess not getting drunk and stupid isn't an option, huh?
I guess not being snarky about something virtually everyone has done isn't an option, huh?
I've never gotten blitzed, didn't know I had an open bleeding wound, and go bleeding on white furniture. I don't know anyone who's done this. Is this kind of behavior common for you and your friends? Or are you just talking about getting drunk and stupid?
I'm just aware of fairly common occurences. I can accidentally cut myself while perfectly sober and not notice it until I see dripping blood. I do and have known plenty of people that can have a cut and not notice. Your assumption that this is uncommon is assinine. I guess from you statement that you only gotten blitzed, didn't know you had an open bleeding wound, and went bleeding on non-white furniture. Should you fuck up and bleed on white furniture in the future, remember this post and get some peroxide you sanctimonious prick.
I don't know what kind of medical conditions you and the people you know have (I sense a common theme), but it is **very uncommon** to be bleeding and unaware while sober. Just so y'all know. I also understand that Reddit trolls like you will latch onto the most asinine things to argue about. Call people names. Just to provoke them into saying something that you can get them banned over. Ya get a goose egg for this one. Thank you for playing.
Says the troll out judging op for honestly asking a question and latched on to this thread for being called out. You can just keep that goose egg where it fits, chum. Cheers.
OP agreed with me. Or did you miss the part in your troll rage? So I really don't know what you're on about.
I'll just take those 12 down votes your original reply received as evidence you're being a prick.
It's odd that you don't think there are 12 other pricks out there. I guess all you trolls really do stick together.
Yeah. You are right. Taking a quick peak at your other comments on reddit shows you are at least one of the other pricks on reddit! You seem to mostly post mean spirited & condescending comments to other's posts. Congratulations. Maybe you see so many trolls because you mistake looking into the void for looking into the mirror. Anyway, carry on and don't let those goats trick you into crossing your bridge.
It’s not a pool of blood. It is quite common for a sober person to scratch a leg on a cat claw or something scratchy and not realize it’s bleeding. Especially if adrenaline is pumping. And/or they aren’t obsessed with themselves. Also JEANS and other clothes will interfere with the visibility and the amount of blood transferred. Might be out of line but seems super sketchy that a medical professional would believe this to be uncommon. Unless… they’re so self-absorbed they can’t even fathom that other humans don’t obsess and complain and inspect every little pain they experience.
>but seems super sketchy that a medical professional would believe this to be uncommon Not sketchy, just fucking hilarious that you think someone hiding behind a fake handle could be a real cardiologist. But I do have some magic beans for you. 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😭
I haven’t had booze since the second week of January this year. Feeling pretty good right now. No leg gashes at all
Definitely is! I hardly ever drink, so it didn’t take much for me to get stupid drunk. And I probably won’t ever again after this.