Happy parents and representatives of creative professions are often asked the question, with the help of which you can wash the felt pen from the garments. Most often in the course immediately go aggressive bleaches or multiple cycles of washing. This negatively affects the condition of the tissue, and it is not always possible to remove the stain to the end. In fact, the problem is not so terrible, just need to correctly approach it.
To remove unwanted traces from the product, you must prepare it correctly. In doing so, the following rules should be followed:
- Treatment should be carried out while the formation is still fresh. A dry spot will lose its brightness a little, but it will be much harder to wipe it off.
- It is absolutely forbidden to use the first stain remover. If you clean without considering the quality of the fabric and the type of marker, you can damage the product and increase the resistance of the formation.
- Before starting the targeted operation, the selected reagent should be checked on the invisible part of the product.
Do not try to wash the marker during a normal run in the typewriter, it can only fix a spot or smudge it over a larger area.
Rules for treating spots from water, chalk and fat based markers
The easiest way is to remove pollution on an aqueous or chalky basis. To do this, use one of the following approaches:
- On the affected area, apply a little neutral gel to wash dishes and leave the material to dry. After that, we wash the product in the traditional way. If you need to remove traces from a white surface, then before washing it is recommended to treat the area with laundry soap.
- To erase such a marker from the skin is even easier. It is necessary to prepare a concentrated solution from laundry soap, apply it to the surface of the product and gently rub it with a soft brush. Remainder of the product is removed with a damp cloth, after which a piece of cloth is dried with a piece of cloth.
Traces of a fat marker will leave without a trace, if you first dissolve the pigment. To do this, take the vegetable oil, apply it on a rag and gently three until completely neutralized color. After such manipulation there will be only a fat stain, which can easily be removed with the help of a dishwashing gel.
Ways to help remove traces from the alcohol marker
The most difficult thing to remove from your clothes is the traces left by the marker or felt-tip pen on an alcohol basis. The following approaches differ in this case:
- The easiest way is to deduce education with the help of a database analog. It can be vodka, medical alcohol, shaving lotion, cologne. Wet the cotton pad in the selected composition and blot the stain. To rub a problem site is strictly prohibited! After achieving the desired result, we erase the garment as usual.
Tip: Before you can wash the felt tip from the clothes in any of the suggested ways, it is necessary to unscrew the product on the wrong side. Only with this approach paint will not penetrate deep into the material and will not pass to other areas of the object. Under the fabric, you need to put a napkin that will absorb dirt.
- When processing a leather thing, you can use the previous method. Only work in this case will be conducted from the front side, and after it will be possible to remove the contamination, the surface will need to be treated with a small amount of cream.
- In the case of persistent permanent markers, it is best to use Vanish. First, the product is applied directly to the stains, then added to the machine when washing. The active ingredient is recommended to be applied to a pre-moistened tissue, then there will be no stains left on it.
- Fine marker traces can be removed with acetic solution. If the fabric is dense, then 9% of the composition can be used in its pure form. When working with delicate material, the product is recommended to be previously diluted( three tablespoons per glass of water).The liquid is applied to the problem area, the fabric must be completely soaked. Then rub the soda into this zone, acting from both sides. After a quarter of an hour, wash the product and wash it in soapy water.
- Good result gives a very unexpected remedy - hair spray. We put it directly on a fresh spot and soak it with paper napkins. Repeat until all dirt is removed. Then we erase the thing in the traditional way.
If the proposed methods do not give the desired result, it is worthwhile to use profile stain removers, in this case, too, one must take into account the type of contamination. In extreme cases, you will have to turn to professionals, but you need to remember that not all products can be dry cleaned. Sometimes, in order not to throw away a favorite thing, skilled housewives mask the problem zone with embroidery or appliqué.
