Hello everyone,
for slipcover sofas for anyone who might be interested, I put some orange lipstick on regular white twill (non-performance), white warm denim, and performance twill white warm, and FYI, the white warm performance twill was the hardest to get out, in fact it still had some lipstick on. Albeit I did not do a dry solvent treatment as was recommended by multiple random website, and just hand washed it with shout and tide, and in the end, I did bleach it, and still the white performance twill had 15-20 % of its stain on. So I did not follow the instructions, do not do as I did on these swatches, especially not on your sofa slipcovers. This was just a test.
The warm white performance twill did wonderful on the water spill test, and little spheres formed on top of the fabric not penetrating it, but that’s what I thought many people say scotchguard does to fabric. Unfortunately it stood no chance with orange lipstick stain. (This is the revlon kiss me coral super lustrous creme lipstick, not a matte long lasting lipstick perse) I will post pictures later.
The White warm denim did not have the magic spheres when put to water spill test, but stain came out amazingly, but required more work than the regular white twill fabric, and cleaned out the best out of the three. I believe the stain is 99% gone.
The regular white twill fabric did not have magic spheres when put to water spill test, and lipstick stain came out the fastest, but not the best, it retained about 5 %of the stain or less.
I will put some pictures so you can see how they look in comparison to each other. (The picture is wet-maybe dried will look better)
Also, the denim was the thickest and softest of the 3 fabrics, remember, all 3 are 100% cotton, with the regular white twill being 15,000 rub count, the performance twill 100,000 rub count and ’finished with soil and stain repellant’ per PB website, with the denim at 50,000 rub count. Performance twill was not as ridig as I thought it would be, there was a display sofa in the store and it was comfy.
I will be looking into the regular twill and the denim in the white as best option for materials I like for future slipcover sofa.
Q
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