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Salad Dressing. Tips to remove Salad Dressing stains on upholstery

Accidents happen all the time when cooking and when eating, if you have a lot of the salad dressing on the upholstery, you should take a spoon or butter knife and scrape away the salad dressing that you can. 

Wet your cotton ball or paper towel with some rubbing alcohol. Dabbing at the salad dressing stain and changing your towel so that you are always using a clean part of it so you don’t leave any more dressing stain on the upholstery as possible. Continue this until you find that you are not bringing any more of the salad dressing out of the upholstery. 

Apply a few drops of dry cleaning solvent to the salad dressing stained area and blot it up with a clean paper towel. Repeat this two or three times, if you are bringing up more of the salad dressing or until the stain is gone. 

Make a solution of water and a few drops of clear bleach free laundry detergent. Spray this on the upholstery salad dressing stained area, and blot until you bring out the moisture. Do not rub the area or you could stretch out the upholstery fabric. 

Rinse the upholstery using a clear water spray, dabbing and blotting to bring out the water, the moisture, and the suds in the upholstery. Be sure to continue rinsing and blotting until you are not bringing any more suds out of the upholstery. 

Rinse the fabric one last time using a mixture of water and vinegar. Making a half and half solution spraying this on the upholstery and the blotting off will make the deep down salad dressing and suds come out.