Kitchen stain recipes for lipstick, grass, and more

You don’t have to cover your furniture in plastic or ban berries from your home. Life gets messy and clothes, furniture, and carpets get stained.

But if you have a few of the key ingredients, such as baking soda, salt, and vinegar in your cupboard, you can prevent a lot of those stains from sticking.

Commercial stain removers can be helpful, but there is no single product on the market that fights all of your stains. And many of those products contain harsh chemical 

 solvents with toxic ingredients that you wouldn’t want on your clothes and skin.

The best first line of defense is water (cold water is usually the safest). For those tougher stains, the table below offers solutions for 14 of the most common stains.

Solutions for specific stains: