How to remove dry erase marker???

[iheartmaytag]

My darling little five year old was playing with her dry erase board yesterday and ended up marking on her New Pink shirt.

Well dry erase may come right of the board but I need advice on how to get it out of fabric.

I have soaked, cold then warm. Oxi-clean, Tide, Tide with bleach.

I have scrubberd with liquid Tide and a tooth brush. The best I have accomplished is going from black to gray.

Any suggestions? PLEASE.

 

[xraytech]

I use Lickety-Split, it is a cleanser you can order from Kirby, it works to remove marker from hard or soft surfaces.

 

[panthera]

OK, this you may not want to hear

DryErase markers are pigment based. The pigment is carried by a quick drying medium (alcohol, usually) which evaporates, leaving the particles of pigment behind. The pigment, itself, is frequently carbon black.

And getting that out is very nearly impossible.

I suggest you try flushing with lots and lots and lots of cool water from behind, with as much pressure as possible. If the fabric permits, alcohol might shift some of it.

Any product made to remove tire marks will remove this stuff, but if the blouse is not 100% cotton, they will probably destroy it. Have you considered one of the Dr. Beck "Stain Devils" (Fleckenteufel) which Walmart sells in the US? They are well known here in Europe as last-resort stain lifters.

Good luck and if something works (Lickety-Split or whatever) let us know. Please. I've got a white shirt which I wear exclusively for days when I have to write on the whiteboard just for this reason.

 

[iheartmaytag]

I will try alcohol. I was thinking of spot cleaner. it is a cotton shirt, and wasn't that expensive it's just that it was the first time she wore it.

She also came home with chocolate milk on her new coat that she just started wearing Monday. I washed it last night, cold water and Woolite gentle. It came out great clean wise, but the seams came from togetherness from the under arm to the waist. Just plain unraveled where it was stitched.

 

[danemodsandy]

A Few Tips:

Here are some things that can help remove a dry-erase marker stain on cotton - synthetics are a whole 'nother beast, and I'm not going there:

- Rubbing alcohol
- Nail polish remover
- Murphy's Oil Soap
- FOR BLACK MARKERS: Westley's Bleche-Wite whitewall tyre cleaner. This is specifically made to dissolve carbon black (what messes up whitewalls is carbon black from the road surface and disc-brake linings). It also works very well to clean glass fireplace doors, although you should not get it on the doors' metal frames. You can get Bleche-Wite at most any auto parts store.

 

[sudsmaster]

With a dry eraser, of course