How to remove clay from clothes: what to wash and how to wash

To wash out the clay, the thing needs to be frozen, rubbed with oil and pour with ammonia. Many housewives, who did not directly come across stains from plasticine, have in memory such fragmentary advice. We will arrange the ways of washing the traces of children's creativity and we will use them correctly.

One of the versions of the invention of plasticine says that it was originally created as a means to remove dirt from the wallpaper. It is interesting that today this material, widely used in children's art, makes moms think about how to wash plasticine and stains left from him. Molded from plasticine and small children, and children of preschool age, and schoolchildren.

Often, after these activities, the child's clothes are "decorated" with colorful specks, moreover, similar specks can appear on other clothes that hung near the work table: father's trousers or my mother's skirt. Also, quite often mothers have to remove plasticine stains from school trousers, because to put plasticine in a painting class on a chair to a neighbor on a desk is a sacred matter.

General recommendations for the removal of plasticine from clothes

Plasticine today is very different: glowing in the dark, floating on the surface of water, in the form of balls, super soft, like chewing gum, iridescent and bubbling. .. And, unfortunately, it all perfectly adheres totissue.

To clean the surface, you must first remove the clay itself, and then traces of it: colored and oil stains. They are formed due to the presence in the mass for the modeling of animal fats or Vaseline and dyes, without which it would be impossible to achieve such a variety of colors. Therefore, the actions that will help remove clay garments from clothing will take place in three stages:

1. We clean the mass for modeling.
2. Remove stains.
3. Erasing thing.

Let's consider in more detail the first two stages, or rather the means that will help remove the remnants of the mass for modeling from clothes. A washing in this case should take place in the usual mode, suitable for a particular thing. When washing a white blouse or laundry, you can add a bleach to enhance the effect. If, after all measures taken, traces of plasticine are still visible, soak the white cloth with bleach or treat the dirty place with hydrogen peroxide. Colored things should be soaked with stain remover according to the instructions.

Tip: The cleaning option depends on the type of fabric. For example, it is not possible to use isopropyl or ammonia alcohol for synthetics. Before you remove the stain with a remedy that is not specifically designed for this, try its action in an inconspicuous place.

We clean the mass for modeling

Before completely removing plasticine from clothes, it is necessary to clean it from the surface. If it is tough enough, it will not be very difficult. Remove the pieces by using a spatula from the modeling kit, the blunt edge of the scissors or the opposite side of the knife point. And if the matter is with a soft, viscous mass, then people's wisdom will have to be used.

1. Put the thing with which you need to remove the clay, in a plastic bag.
2. Remove the bag with clothes in the freezer. Keep it there until the clay is frozen. The time depends on the thickness of the layer and, as a rule, is 30 minutes.
3. Remove the stained item from the freezer and remove the clay using the same tools that were used to remove it for the first time, before freezing. They were described above.

After it was possible to remove the clay to the maximum, the thing will not be clean. He will remain a fat colored spot, formed from a thin layer of plasticine, which can literally coalesce with the surface of the tissue. To wash it, we use the methods described below.

Remove stains

As mentioned above, the composition of plasticine is fat. Therefore, to dissolve it, you will need alkali, which many remember from the school chemistry course. In order to wash out plasticine stains, we will use one of the following types of alkali:

• laundry soap;
• baking soda;
• dishwashing detergent.

1. Prepare a solution that will help wash off the stain by dissolving in the shavings of household soap flakes or dishwashing detergent. From the soda, prepare a thick slurry, adding just a little water.
2. Apply the cleaning solution to the contamination. Leave for 5-7 minutes.
3. Vigorously rub the stain to wipe the clay.

It is also possible to wash the traces of the molding mass with ammonia or isopropyl alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol is part of the window cleaner. However, this method is applicable for cleaning trousers, skirts and other things from natural materials, for example, from denim. Synthetic clothes can not be cleaned in this way.

1. Apply liquid ammonia or window cleaner to the contamination so that it soaks it.
2. Leave for half an hour.
3. After a while, vigorously rub the stain to clean the cloth.

In addition to using alkali, to wash off the traces of clay, you can apply it to vegetable oil. As they say, like cleansed like. The truth after such processing it is necessary to wash off a vegetable oil from a fabric. To do this:

1. Apply the vegetable oil to the cotton pad.
2. Rub the spot by changing several discs until the stain disappears.
3. Wash the vegetable oil by soaking the garment in soapy water or in a solution of water and dishwashing liquid.

Ways for cleaning clothes from plasticine - a lot. Choose what is more convenient, and do not forget about the type of fabric. And to protect clothing from possible contamination with clay during molding, use a special board, armlets and apron.