Until now, you thought that if you stained a clothing item with a permanent marker … is the bad thing that can’t be repaired? Absolutely wrong! Don’t rush to throw that doodled or make it a cloth. Try to save it first! Of course, the faster you act, the better your chances of success are.
The below advice will help you to get rid of permanent marker stains off your clothes.
Hair spray
Exactly, you read well! Believe it or not, hair spray will help you to get rid of stains off your clothes.
Moisten the stained area in water. Then spray hair spray on a paper towel and gently wipe the stained area. From the first wipe you’ll see how marker stains will remain on the paper towel. Repeat this procedure until the marker stain completely transfers on the paper towel. Put the clothing item in the washing machine and wash it like usual.
Rubbing alcohol
Rubbing alcohol is very helpful in this situation
Put the stained area down over a paper towel. Take a clean cloth and moisten in rubbing alcohol, and gently wipe the stained area with it. You’ll see how the marker stain will remain on the napkin from the first wipe. Change the paper towel under the stain very often to absorb the color well. wash the clothing item like usual.
Milk
Eh … this one you have to see it to believe it! And the use of milk is a very effective method to get rid of permanent marker stain from all kind of fabrics.
It’s very easy to do. Fill a bowl of milk and soften the stained area of the clothing item in the milk. It will penetrate the fabric and it will begin diluting slowly, but surely the color left by the permanent marker. When you’ll notice a very large difference between the original color and the current color, replace the milk with a fresh one and repeat the whole process with confidence until the stain disappears completely from the fabric.
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