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What's the Best Way to Clean a Red Wine Stain?

What's the Best Way to Clean a Red Wine Stain?

Nothing stops a party in its tracks like spilling a glass of red wine on white clothing. Everyone clamors for their go-to method of cleaning the stain before it sets. Seltzer! Salt! Incantations! But do any of them actually work? Today we test a few commonly suggested methods for cleaning red wine.

To clean our white shirts of a freshly spilled stain, we tried shaving cream, club soda and salt, boiling hot water, and white wine. Is more wine really the solution? Yes, but not for cleaning stains.