How to Get Food Coloring Out of the Furniture

Food coloring may enhance the appearance of what you eat, but it can mar where you sit. Food coloring can leave a stain if it sets into your furniture's fabric. The method for removing a food coloring stain depends on the manufacturer's care recommendations for your furniture. Some furniture upholstery may be labeled as professional cleaning only. White vinegar and dishwashing liquid are effective stain removers if the furniture can be exposed to cleaning products, as the vinegar eliminates the food coloring without damaging the furniture.

Liquid dish soap
Bowl
White vinegar
Water
Spoon
5 terry cloths
Rubbing alcohol

Instructions

- 1
  Pour 1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap into a bowl and add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Mix in 2 cups of cold water and stir the ingredients together with a spoon to create a cleaning solution.
- 2
  Soak a clean terry cloth into the bowl's cleaning solution, and tamp the cleaner-soaked cloth onto the stain.
- 3
  Blot the saturated stain with a clean terry cloth dampened with cleaning solution every five minutes until the solution has set into the stain for 30 minutes.
- 4
  Wet a new terry cloth with cold water and blot the stain to rinse off the vinegar and dish soap.
- 5
  Blot the spot dry with a new terry cloth and pour 1 tablespoon of rubbing alcohol onto the cloth.
- 6
  Tamp the stain with the alcohol-dampened cloth, and rinse off the stain with the water-dampened cloth.
- 7
  Blot the area until all moisture is eliminated from the furniture.

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