Dye family: alcohol or a long oxygen soak
How to get slushie out
Pure food dye and sugar, often red and blue together.
Do this first
Flush cold
Fresh stain
- Flush cold
- Gently work in detergent
- Oxygen-bleach soak overnight
- Wash
Dried or old
- Repeat soak
- Whites: peroxide and dish soap
- Fabric care
- No heat until gone.
- Time
- Overnight
- How to tell
- Look: vivid drips; Feel: sticky; Smell: sweet
Where this fix comes from
We check every fix against these published guides. We do not run a test lab of our own.
Before you start
- Test on a hidden seam first.
- Never mix cleaners.
- Keep it out of the dryer until the stain is gone.