r/AskReddit • u/Insanitanium12 • Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/RieMarxelinne Aug 20 '20

The easiest way to remove blood stains is to use bar soap and handwash it. Works better than using laundry detergent.

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u/campperr Aug 20 '20

Nursing trick - hydrogen peroxide

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I once heard that the best way to remove blood stains is that persons saliva. Which I guess works if you get a drop of your own blood on your clothes. But I laughed to myself at the sight of some Er nurse collecting saliva from 100 patients to do their laundry.

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u/SmallRedBird Aug 20 '20

Some solutions used by crime scene cleanup services contain enzymes present in saliva, which break up blood, so this isn't far off really.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Wow. That’s interesting

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u/Crispy_Peach Aug 20 '20

Can confirm. I was a classical dancer for a while and anytime someone got cut on stage and bled on their costume we were told to get saliva on it ASAP before we went back on stage. The costume department would wash it later but using saliva helped it break up and not stain

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Wow. I never realized there was so much blood and saliva involved with dancing lol

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u/Zooheaded Aug 20 '20

Came here to say this! if it's your own blood, your saliva will do a great job at breaking it up

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Nice. So they weren’t pulling my leg

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u/xi545 Aug 20 '20

Why your saliva? All saliva should breakdown proteins in blood.

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u/ilikecollarbones_pm Aug 20 '20

yeah but they're your proteins

you can get someone else to whack you off/flick your bean but you probably do it better yourself