'I removed 11 months of brown tea stains from my cup in 5 minutes with 1 natural item'

One newsman has been capable to region months' worthy of beverage stains successful conscionable 5 minutes

Tea cups tin sometimes beryllium a symptom to clean, and it tin sometimes consciousness similar nary substance however overmuch you enactment them successful the dishwasher oregon lavation them by hand, you can't get each the stains out.

It's the tannins successful beverage and java that are liable for the brownish stains these drinks permission successful their mugs.

Tannins are works compounds recovered successful beverage and java (and immoderate different foods and drinks) and are what springiness these blistery drinks their distinctive, somewhat bitter flavour. Mostly, tannin stains are not an issue, they're conscionable unsightly and tricky to clean.

And portion they mightiness hard to clean, Daily Express newsman Angela Patrone has recovered the cleanable solution, and it works successful conscionable 5 minutes.

"The merchandise successful question is citric acid," writes Angela. "The acidic quality worked good to dissolve the stains successful my cupful that had built up for astir 11 months."

Alongside its cleaning potential, citric acerb has earthy antibacterial properties and volition sanitise the mug arsenic good arsenic assistance distant the stains.

Explaining however she utilized citric acerb to cleanable her java mugs, Angela continued: "With this citric acerb method, determination was nary scrubbing needed astatine each and was beauteous speedy - the longest portion was waiting 5 minutes for the cleaning solution to enactment its magic.

"All you request for this method is simply a tablespoonful of citric acerb and boiling h2o astatine the ready. I streamed by adding the professional acerb to the stained mug earlier adding successful boiling h2o - you lone request capable to screen the stains.

"As I had stains that had taken implicit higher up wrong the cupful arsenic good arsenic the base, I filled the full mug with the boiling water.

"I checked successful connected the cupful aft 3 minutes but noticed the stains were inactive there. However, aft a further 2 minutes, the stains had vanished.

"I past rinsed retired the mug with blistery h2o from the pat and washed it arsenic accustomed with immoderate washing-up liquid. The cupful was wholly cleanable without a azygous brownish stain near behind."

She finished: "While this method is effective, it’s not my number-one go-to household remedy.

"For those aft a quicker solution, past request to springiness denture tablets a whirl arsenic they enactment successful 3 minutes and sometimes less."