Thursday, while picking up appliance parts, I stupidly managed to hit myself with a Sharpie and put a little swoosh mark on the front of my shirt. To remove it, I started with Goof Off Paint Splatter Remover with part of a wash cloth under the mark and the rest of it above to rub the mark. Several applications of the solvent lightened the stain. Then I applied Persil Pro Clean twice to the stain and rubbed it the same way and it disappeared. So, if you make a clumsy move with a Sharpie, this is how you can fix it.
I Removed Sharpie Ink From a Shirt
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rinso
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Tomturbomatic: Good tip, thanks. Now I just have to figure out how to get olive oil vinaigrette stains, out of my polos. Commercial laundry and dry cleaning establishments don't seem to be able to get them out, and I end up with those nasty stain tickets.
Have you tried aerosol SHOUT? It has dry cleaning solvent in it. Spray, let it sit for 5 minutes then spot dose with liquid detergent before laundering. Tide or Persil liquid are good choices. If you are using a top loader, you can use Dawn liquid.
reactor
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good information
Good information to know, Tom. While at work, I always have a pen in my pocket and as I am jotting down data so frequently, I sometimes forget to click the pen point in or a pen will leak. Alcohol (rubbing) and hair spray have been tried but with only limited success. Will give Persil and/or Shout a try. Thanks.
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Good information to know, Tom. While at work, I always have a pen in my pocket and as I am jotting down data so frequently, I sometimes forget to click the pen point in or a pen will leak. Alcohol (rubbing) and hair spray have been tried but with only limited success. Will give Persil and/or Shout a try. Thanks.
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mysteryclock
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The best pre-spotter I've used recently is Zout (not to be confused with Shout), in a bright red spray bottle. I prefer the liquid spray not the foam kind FWIW. It's almost never let me down getting out stains the first time, even oily ones, and even does a pretty good job on things that were accidentally dried in. Importantly, it has also never once discolored or bleached out anything I've used it on.
For really stubborn stuff beyond that (perhaps like olive oil?) you could always try some original Dawn - not the Oxy kind or any special version, the straight-up blue bottle one they use on wildlife after oil spills. Put that on there, saturate it, walk away for 24-48h, then give it a whirl. That's usually my spot cleaner of last resort if Zout won't work, but I rarely have to go that far.
For really stubborn stuff beyond that (perhaps like olive oil?) you could always try some original Dawn - not the Oxy kind or any special version, the straight-up blue bottle one they use on wildlife after oil spills. Put that on there, saturate it, walk away for 24-48h, then give it a whirl. That's usually my spot cleaner of last resort if Zout won't work, but I rarely have to go that far.
I used to use Energine Spot Remover for difficult stains like oil, grease and ink. It came in a small white can with black and red lettering for the label. I don’t believe that it’s sold any longer. It was a volatile dry cleaning fluid. During the 90’s I wore a tie to work every day and Energine was great for removing oil and grease stains from food that may have dropped onto my ties.
Eddie
Eddie
rinso
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Energine may have had solvent(s) in it that were once used by dry cleaning establishments. Early solvents were carbon tetrachloride and/or trichloroethylene (TCE), but they gradually were phased out as their adverse health effects became more known. TCE may still occasionally be used for spot cleaning of difficult stains.
We use clean freak for a lot of stubborn stains with good results.
On another note ..tony had an unfortunate encounter with a juicy hamburger once on a synthetic fabric jacket. We tried everything and we're just about to toss it out so I figured we had nothing to lose and put it throu a boil wash in the Miele. It worked and removed all of it.
On another note ..tony had an unfortunate encounter with a juicy hamburger once on a synthetic fabric jacket. We tried everything and we're just about to toss it out so I figured we had nothing to lose and put it throu a boil wash in the Miele. It worked and removed all of it.
Olive oil
Vinaigrette is a difficult stain to remove from Polo shirts. But Persil Stain Fighter will do it. The secret is to moisten the stain with Persil, don’t rub, and set it aside for at least 30 minutes and preferably longer, up to a couple hours. Then, without rubbing or anything, just throw it in the wash using warm water.
If the stain was set by dryer heat, it might take several repetitions of that process.
Do not mix Persil with anything else such as peroxide because the peroxide will neutralize the enzymes, and the combo of the two will bleach/fade the spot.
Persil Stain Fighter has never failed me when given time for the enzymes to do their job. I never buy stain products anymore because Persil works better!
Years ago I spilled a bunch of fountain pen ink on olive green cotton pants that were a heavy fabric with a suede texture. The dry cleaner returned the pants, saying we tried but sorry, we were afraid any further effort would damage the pants. Whatever. So I tried Amodex — and it removed it perfectly without fading the fabric.
Vinaigrette is a difficult stain to remove from Polo shirts. But Persil Stain Fighter will do it. The secret is to moisten the stain with Persil, don’t rub, and set it aside for at least 30 minutes and preferably longer, up to a couple hours. Then, without rubbing or anything, just throw it in the wash using warm water.
If the stain was set by dryer heat, it might take several repetitions of that process.
Do not mix Persil with anything else such as peroxide because the peroxide will neutralize the enzymes, and the combo of the two will bleach/fade the spot.
Persil Stain Fighter has never failed me when given time for the enzymes to do their job. I never buy stain products anymore because Persil works better!
Years ago I spilled a bunch of fountain pen ink on olive green cotton pants that were a heavy fabric with a suede texture. The dry cleaner returned the pants, saying we tried but sorry, we were afraid any further effort would damage the pants. Whatever. So I tried Amodex — and it removed it perfectly without fading the fabric.
Hair color
Any suggestions of getting hair dye off from white leather chair.
Jon
Any suggestions of getting hair dye off from white leather chair.
Jon
Jon,
When I went to Cosmetology School in 1969 one of our older instructors showed us how to remove hair color stains from our patrons hairlines by using, believe it or not, cigarette ashes!
You take the tip of a very damp towel, dip it into an ash tray with ashes in it and gently rub it onto the stain and viola, the dye stain is gone! Since leather is skin, albeit dried animal skin I don’t know why this wouldn’t work. I did hair professionally for 15 years and even the darkest dye stains came out using this method. And its FREE, provided you can locate an ash tray these days with cigarette ashes in it.
Roux used to sell a dye stain remover and the cigarette ashes worked better than the Roux Stain Remover.
We also sometimes used Permanent Wave solution also for stain removal and it worked pretty good too.
Try it on a small area first to be sure that it works for you.
Eddie
When I went to Cosmetology School in 1969 one of our older instructors showed us how to remove hair color stains from our patrons hairlines by using, believe it or not, cigarette ashes!
You take the tip of a very damp towel, dip it into an ash tray with ashes in it and gently rub it onto the stain and viola, the dye stain is gone! Since leather is skin, albeit dried animal skin I don’t know why this wouldn’t work. I did hair professionally for 15 years and even the darkest dye stains came out using this method. And its FREE, provided you can locate an ash tray these days with cigarette ashes in it.
Roux used to sell a dye stain remover and the cigarette ashes worked better than the Roux Stain Remover.
We also sometimes used Permanent Wave solution also for stain removal and it worked pretty good too.
Try it on a small area first to be sure that it works for you.
Eddie
Thanks Eddie I will give it a try.
Jon
Jon
Tried it and didn't work unfortunately. Anyone else have any ideas? I might try Dawn dish detergent with some baking soda and use a tooth brush to see if it will lift it, or some peroxide very gently.
Jon
Jon
Jon,
I’m sorry that the cigarette ashes didn’t get the hair color stain out of your white leather chair. Maybe saturating a small piece of cloth the size of the stain with peroxide and leaving it on the stain for a while will lift it out? Or even some hair color remover? Good luck!
Eddie
I’m sorry that the cigarette ashes didn’t get the hair color stain out of your white leather chair. Maybe saturating a small piece of cloth the size of the stain with peroxide and leaving it on the stain for a while will lift it out? Or even some hair color remover? Good luck!
Eddie
