5 Tips for Cleaning The Tea Stains On The Ceramic Cups

The ceramic cups or mugs is one of the most popular container for holding the tea, drink or water, which is artistic and elegant. Ceramic cups are harmless to the human body, but drinking tea from ceramic cups will inevitably leave tea stains, 

 How to remove it easier and clean the porcelain cup usually will be a headead question for most of peope.

Firstly ,we need to know more about the contect of the tea stains on the ceramic cups.The main component of tea stains is tea polyphenols, and a small amount of metal ions also participate in the formation of tea stains. 

Because green tea has more polyphenols, tea stains will form and leave on the porcelain cup easily.If you drink the  deep fermented black tea and black tea, you will find less tea stains on your porcelain mugs.

 Of course, the components tea stain formed by different kinds of tea are basically similar.

And the  tea stain  is a polymer produced by  tea polyphenols under the action of air oxidation, so it will form near the water line and adhere the inner wall of the ceramic cups or mugs, or other ceramic container Studies have shown that as time goes on, if the tea stains are not cleaned,the molecular weight of the polymer will gradually increase, which will slow down the polymerization of polyphenols. Therefore, the longer the tea stains are, the harder it is to

remove them. As a professional factory and supplier of the ceramic tableware, below 8 tips for you to remove the tea stains from your beautiful ceramic cups.

Salt to remove tea stains.

Tea stains are very stubborn stains. If you don’t use salt, which has an abrasive effect,it is difficult to remove tea stains from ceramic cups.

Put salt on it, then wipe the inner wall of the ceramic cup back and forth, then soak it in boiling water for 10 minutes, and then brush it with a soft cloth or sponge, which can basically remove the tea stains in the ceramic mugs.

White vinegar to remove tea stains.

 White vinegar is corrosive to a certain extent. It has a strong cleaning effect on tea stains in ceramic porcelain tea sets, especially for aged tea stains accumulated in ceramic cups. 

Firstly, Boil white vinegar in a pot , then pour it into a ceramic cup.Secondly, wipe it with a sponge brush or soft cloth to effectively remove tea stains from the ceramic cup.

Potato Skin to remove tea stains: 

Remove the potato skins first, potato skins are very effective. For example, they can remove tea stains in ceramic cups. 

Put potato skin in a ceramic cup with tea stains, add the freshly boiled soak into the boiling water with the lid on for about 10 minutes.Wipping it with a sponge or soft cloth is more easily to remove the tea stains from the porcelain cups.

There are lot of starch in the potato skin ,which has strong adsorption, can help clean tea stains. Meanwhile, there is a mucous membrane in the potato skin.It can help avoid damaging the inner wall of the ceramic cup during the cleanig process.

Kitchen bleach to remove tea stains.

Dilute with kitchen bleach and water, pour it into a ceramic cup, shake it several times. Then soak the cearmic cups overnight, rinse it with clean water the next day. You will find the the tea stains on the wall of ceramic cup  will disappear.

Remove tea stains from egg shells.

 Firstly you are supposed to  crush the egg shells and then put them into the porcelain cup to be cleaned.  Press the broken egg shells with a rag to wipe, which can also easily remove tea stains.