{"id":5900,"date":"2014-06-21T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:51:26","slug":"removing-lipstick-from-mulberry-silk-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/removing-lipstick-from-mulberry-silk-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Guide: Removing Lipstick from Silk Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have purchased soft, luxurious mulberry silk sheets and you treat them with loving care, washing them often but gently. However, now the unimaginable has happened. You have a stain on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen.html\">mulberry silk sheets<\/a> and do not know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the lipstick and makeup stain has set, try the laundry soap you use to regularly clean the sheets but in a little more concentrated form. If that does not work, try ammonia but be careful if the sheets are a dark color. Test in an inconspicuous place first and use as little as ammonia as possible. Start with 1 part ammonia to 3 parts water. If that doesn\u2019t work increase the strength of the ammonia but never use anything stronger than 1 part ammonia to 1 part water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many different kinds of mulberry silk sheets which means that a method removes a stain on one type of silk may not work on another type of silk. Always remember test the method on an inconspicuous section of the mulberry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen.html\">silk sheets<\/a> first, like on a corner of the fitted sheet that does not show when it is on the bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the lipstick and makeup stain has set, try the laundry soap you use to regularly clean the sheets but in a little more concentrated form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silk-care","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}