Marker is a great tool for creativity. Especially indifferent to these bright little things are small children. It is understandable. You can draw with a marker everywhere: on a sheet of paper, a wall, wood or plastic. Thanks to its special ink, it lasts incredibly long. Colors remain vibrant and vibrant, and pictures are beautiful.
In this article, we will talk about how to remove a marker from clothes. Is it possible to do this on your own or is it necessary to carry a thing in dry cleaning? How to remove a marker stain from clothes and not damage the fabric? First things first ...
Can traces of the marker be displayed
Most often, children and students use markers. They can easily and quickly draw something interesting, emphasize or highlight the necessary place in the text, draw vivid diagrams and graphs.
All the positive qualities of markers fade at the moment when their mark remains on their favorite clothes. This kind of trouble happens quite often. Moreover, the appearance of clothing stains from the marker does not depend on the age of the artist. One awkward movement and you're done! If you got dirty with a marker in the color of your clothes, nothing bad happened. After washing, the stain will become a little brighter, and eventually merge with the general background.
But what if you get your white shirt dirty? How to remove a marker from clothes and is it possible?
The fact is that the paint used in these wonderful pieces has special pigments. Destroying their trail is sometimes incredibly difficult. But it is quite real.
What markers are
Before figuring out how to remove a marker from clothes, you need to understand what kind of miracle pencil has left a stain. The modern market offers us such a wide assortment that it is fit to get confused. The paint in such markers has a different composition. Depending on this, they are as follows:
- water;
- alcohol;
- paint and varnish;
- Cretaceous
- oil.
Each type has its own characteristics. Therefore, their traces need to be cleaned in different ways.
It is also necessary to determine the type of fabric. After all, stains from silk and jeans are also removed in different ways.
Water and chalk options
These are the most popular and quite harmless options. Some sellers even position them as children's markers. The paint inside this felt-tip pen dissolves with ordinary water, which is completely safe for the child.
Water-based marker is easy to remove. Sometimes it is enough to wash a thing with cool water and laundry soap. If the stain has already dried out well and doesn’t wash off so easily, take 2 parts ammonia and one part soda. Combine everything until a paste forms and apply to the painted place. Wait about 15 minutes, and then rub the place of contamination with an old toothbrush. Rinse off the paste and wash the item as usual.
A water-based marker can also be removed with bleach. True, it is necessary to use it only on white fabrics. The color thing from such processing will deteriorate.
The chalk marker is also easy to display. Such stains do not belong to persistent ones, so all the above methods will fully help you.
If the stain has been planted for a long time and does not go away in any way, use this recipe. Warm up 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice, and then pour a little salt (0.5 tsp) and a few drops of acetic concentrate (acid) into it. Smear the resulting mixture on a painted place and gently rub. After 10-15 minutes, wash the item as usual.
If you don’t know how to remove the marker from white clothes, try using regular toothpaste (gel and color do not work!). Apply a little of this substance to the stain, rub lightly with a brush and leave for a few minutes. Wash.
Alcohol Markers
If the coloring pencil contains alcohol, you will recognize this by its characteristic odor. In this case, you need to act differently. You will come in handy any tool where there is alcohol. Suitable vodka, perfume, the medicine "Septil" and so on.
Lay the fabric face down on a clean, soft cloth that you do not mind spoiling. It could be, for example, an old towel or something else. Carefully pour the alcohol-containing solution into the contaminated area. Use a piece of cotton wool or a soft sponge to press on the spot, as if trying to push it out of the fabric. Attention! Never rub the place of contamination. So you will only make it worse.
Did not help? Try one more option. Get oxygen bleach from the store. The well-known Vanish is quite suitable. It removes stains remarkably. Only you need to act according to the instructions.
Fat based marker
As you know, like dissolves in like. Therefore, by analogy with the first two options, we need fat. True, then another problem will arise - a greasy stain. But any housewife can fight this scourge.
If you stained your clothes with a grease marker, wipe the area with ordinary sunflower oil. Experienced housewives say that the best effect in this case is mint, pine or fir oil. But if there are none, it’s not scary. Anyone will do.
By the way, if the stain from a fat-soluble marker is fresh, it is possible that such radical actions will not be needed. Try rubbing the stain with a paste of soda and lemon juice. It is left at the place of pollution for 2-3 hours, and then the thing is washed, as usual.
Paint and varnish option
The most terrible kind of coloring pencils in the context of stain removal is acrylic markers. They appeared on the market not so long ago and have already won the love of creative people who paint various things manually.
The trace of acrylic markers is very difficult to destroy. For this, various solvents, means for dissolving varnish, gasoline, turpentine and the like are used.
But before proceeding with such aggressive actions, try this way:
- Take the stained thing and soak it in cold water for 5-7 minutes. The fabric should get wet properly.
- Squeeze a little and lay on a flat surface.
- Prepare the product from equal parts of vinegar and ammonia. Add a pinch of salt there.
- Soak a swab in the resulting mixture and treat the stain from the edges to the center.
- Change cotton wool as often as needed as it becomes dirty.
- After the stain disappears, wash in the usual way.
Permanent marker
And how to remove the most resistant marker - permanent? Its pigments dry out almost instantly, and getting rid of the stain will be very difficult. But it's still worth a try.
One way is to wipe the place of contamination with acetic acid. Use a cotton swab to rub it into the stained area. The procedure must be carried out many times until the traces completely disappear. After that, the thing needs to be washed thoroughly. To remove the not very pleasant aroma of vinegar, use fabric softener.
And here is another option:
- moisten the stained area with acetone liberally;
- place the fabric between two layers of blotting paper;
- Carefully iron the area with a hot iron.
- Under the influence of temperature, acetone will begin to evaporate actively and push the paint onto a blotter.
Precautionary measures
So that the cleaning procedure is successful and you do not spoil the thing completely, take a note of a few recommendations:
- If you can’t determine which basis the marker with which you got dirty has a try, try the methods one by one, starting with the most harmless ones.
- Until the stain has completely disappeared, the cloth can only be washed in cold water. Hot “bake” the paint even more and removing dirt will become more difficult.
- Apply all cleaning agents only from the inside out.
- Even if you really want to remove the stain quickly, in no case rub it. So you just smear the paint. The stained area should be wet or applied from the edges of the stain to the center.
- If you want to use harsh chemicals, do a little test. Apply a small amount to a place where you can see the least. Observe how the fabric behaves.
Using these simple recommendations, you can easily remove the marker from clothes and not damage the fabric.