Butter Stain Removal Guide

Butter stain removal techniques are essential for any home cook, because as you cook butter can easily splatter on your clothes and cause a stain.

Further, melted butter can easily drip off your food onto any other items around the house, like your upholstered furniture or carpet.

No matter where that butter drips or splatters it leaves a greasy stain which can be difficult to remove, even with multiple washings.

Further, the greasy stain can get set if it runs through the dryer.

Therefore, below are step by step instructions for how to remove stains caused by butter from clothing, upholstery and carpet.

Butter Stain Removal From Clothing And Fabric

Step 1: Rub a small amount of hand dishwashing soap into the fabric.

Step 2: Rinse the stained area well, flushing away both the butter and the dishwashing liquid solution.

Step 3: Pretreat the stain with a laundry stain remover.

Step 4: Launder in the hottest water allowed for the fabric to thoroughly remove the stain and the oil from the butter.

Hint: Make sure the stain is gone after washing, but before you place in the dryer or you may set the stain. Repeat if necessary.

If you'd like additional tips for clothing stain removal, make sure to check out these home remedies for removing food oil and grease from clothes.

Removing Butter Stains From Upholstery

Step 1: Scrape up as much of the butter as possible from the upholstery without spreading the stain further.

Step 2: Place an absorbent, such as cornstarch or baking soda, onto the stain, and let it soak in for approximately 15 minutes. This will help absorb the oily portion of the stain caused by the butter.

Step 3: Scrape or vacuum up the absorbent, which has absorbed some of the butter.

Hint: Depending on the amount of the butter spilled (and how melted it was when it spilled) you may need to repeat this step a couple of times until no more butter is absorbed by the baking soda or cornstarch.

Step 4: For the butter still remaining take a clean white cloth and sponge the stain caused by the butter with a dry cleaning solvent.

Hint: First, be sure to test this solvent on an inconspicuous area of the upholstery to make sure it is safe.

Step 5: Next, blot at the stain until the solvent is absorbed.

Step 6: Repeat steps 4-5 until the butter stains are removed from the upholstery.

If that does not work you can mix a solution of two cups cool water and one tablespoon dishwashing liquid, and using this solution, sponge the stain with a clean white cloth, blotting at the stain until the liquid is absorbed, and the stain removed.

Once the stain from the butter is gone use plain cold water and a new white cloth and sponge the area to remove the cleaning solution, and then blot dry.

Hint: Be sure to get the upholstery only as wet as necessary to remove the stain caused by the butter.

You can get more information on how to clean upholstery here.

How To Remove A Butter Stain From Carpet

The instructions for butter stain removal from carpet is the same as for upholstery.

Recommended Butter Stain Removers

Perhaps you don't want to make your own stain remover, but instead want to use something designed for butter stain removal. Here are some articles and reviews on this site which discuss various products that are designed to remove these stains, or where a reader has had luck with a particular product:

Presoaking With Oxiclean

Food Grease Out Of Clothes With Dish Washing Liquid

Carbona Stain Devil #5

Shout Advanced Ultra Gel

Dry Cleaning Solvent

Restaurant Server Uses Lestoil

You can also share your own stain remover reviews here for other removers that work on butter or any other stain.

Submit Your Own Stain Removal Tip For Butter

Do you have your own stain removal tip for removing stains caused by butter? If so, submit your tip about removing stains caused by butter here, or read other tips which have already been submitted.

Use For Butter For Cleaning Stains & Messes Up

I know this whole page is devoted to sharing tips for butter stain removal, but sometimes butter actually can be used to clean things up instead of just making a mess.

Here's a tip from a reader who shared how to get tree sap off your hands using butter.

Get Even More Stain And Spot Removal Help Here

Are you a stain magnet like me? If so, check out the A to Z Stain Removal Guide which gives directions for how to remove over 100 types of stains from all kinds of surfaces.

In addition, here are some other stain removal guide pages you may need, since you needed this one!

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CAUTION: This website is provided for informational purposes only. It is provided as is, without warranties or guarantees. Some stains and messes just won't come out, and are permanent. Further, some cleaning methods can harm your item, so if what you want to clean or launder is sentimental or expensive call a professional. See disclaimer of liability for more information.