How to Treat Paintball Stains on Cotton Fabric

Spending a few hours getting blasted with paintballs can be a lot of fun. It also can be a big mess. Luckily, though, washing paintball paint out of typical cotton fabric is not much of a problem, as long as action is taken sooner, rather than later. The best way to leave your clothing permanently stained after a day of paintball is to ignore your soiled gear on the laundry room floor.

Things You'll Need

  • Washing machine
  • Laundry soap
  • Stain stick
  • Dryer
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Instructions

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      Wash your clothes as soon as you can. When you come home from a day on the battlefield, it's critical to get your clothing into the washing machine fast. Run your typical cycle with the usual amount of detergent. Keep your colors separate from whites as with a normal laundry cycle.

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      Examine your clothes after they've been washed. Take a look at everything after the wash cycle has finished, and find out if the paint came out. It should have, as paintball paint is water soluble, so it should wash out of cotton clothing easily. If there is still paint on the clothes, or possibly oil stains, try any type of stain stick and rewash. As long as the clothes were washed quickly after the game and not left to sit, no stains should remain after the initial wash.

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      Dry the clothes, and they should look just as they did before playing paintball. After all, the stains that are more likely to damage your clothes in paintball are from grass and dirt, not the paint. Because of the grass, dirt and paint, wear older clothes that you wouldn't mind getting roughed up during your next game.