Posted By: Jenay Zhyrov
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Posted On: 10/9/2025
Many conventional stain removers and laundry detergents are made with harsh chemicals, including toxic surfactants, chlorine, and optical brighteners.
Optical brighteners make fabrics appear whiter and brighter by reflecting blue light, but they don’t actually remove stains. Over time, repeated exposure to these harmful ingredients can cause allergies, hormone disruption, and skin irritation.
Ditching toxic laundry products for deep cleaning, non-toxic alternatives helps keep your family safe and your costumes as good as new. Here’s how to make stains disappear after a night of trick-or-treating, fake blood, and melted candy.
During a night of spooky fun and mayhem with your family, spills, smudges, and smears can go unnoticed until hours later. But don’t cower in fear. Your clothes aren’t cursed. Just remember: the faster you act, the easier it is to keep stains from embedding into fabrics.
Gently scrape off sticky globs of melted hard candy, chocolate, caramel, or pumpkin guts with a spoon or dull knife. For greasy face paint, makeup, fake blood, or juice, use a clean cloth soaked in cold water to dab the stain. Always blot, never rub, to lift stains from your clothes into the cloth instead of spreading them.
Before tossing clothes or costumes into the wash, saturate the candy, pumpkin, or fake blood with Truly Free Home Laundry Stain Spray as a pre-treatment. The non-toxic formula quickly penetrates and breaks down even the scariest messes. Let the solution sit for at least five minutes, so the cleaning agents have time to work their magic. For particularly tough stains, use Truly Free Home OxyBoost as a pre-soak before treating stains with the stain spray.
After pre-treating, set your washing machine to cold and wash your items with Truly Free Home Laundry Wash as usual. If your costume is intricate, avoid damaging delicate fabrics by handwashing or putting it in a mesh garment bag made from organic cotton to prevent microplastic shedding. If the stain persists, repeat steps 2 and 3.
Heat will lock in stains for good, so never put an item in the dryer until the spot is completely gone.
With these steps, candy chaos and other spooky messes don’t stand a chance.
If you’re looking for a safe, effective way to rescue clothes from the stickiest Halloween messes, simply spray Truly Free Home Laundry Stain Spray and watch stains vanish. No cauldrons, spells, or harsh ingredients needed.
