If you get a turmeric stain on your clothes while eating food, and try to wash it off with soap, the stain becomes red. why? Find out from an elder how to remove turmeric stains from clothes.

Turmeric changes its color only in basic medium.  It turns to reddish brown in basic medium while in acidic medium there is no change in color.
for eg : when a drop of soap solution is dropped on turmeric stain on cloth it turns to reddish brown stain indicating basic nature of soap .

To remove turmeric stains :
Squeeze lemon or lime juice on the stain and leave it for 10 minutes. The lemon juice will neutralize the stain. We can use vinegar also to remove the stain . Then wash it with washing powder .You will see the stains are removed.

 

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it's so because turmeric stain is acidic and soap is basic . threrfore bases turns blue litmus to red litmus.

to rub them use lemon juice which is acidic.

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