How do I get nail polish remover stains out of a wood table? Please help me!?
Pour a small amount of oil onto a clean rag and rub the oil into the marks. Either cooking oil and baby oil will work....whichever you have on hand. After rubbing the oil in, buff with a different clean rag. Please try this before doing anything drastic, like sanding or re-finishing. -
Housecleaning: How do I remove gummy oil off of plastic?
If the container fits in the dishwasher, try that. Not only is dishwasher soap pretty nasty stuff, but also there's just no competing by hand with the sheer relentlessness with which a dishwasher can keep squirting hot water at something for an hour. You say you tried detergents, but not what kind or concentration. Have you tried a strong degreaser? I don't mean the pleasant kind you might use as a general-purpose cleaner, like Simply Green. I mean the sort that smells really nasty.The other option, of course, is to try a solvent. Try any solvent in a small spot first to make sure it doesn't dissolve the plastic; acetone especially is pretty good at dissolving many household plastics. The usual suspects are rubbing alcohol (isopropanol) and denatured alcohol (ethanol with some additives to keep you from drinking it), as well as commercial gunk removers with names like "goo-gone" and "goof off". But don't overlook the paint cabinet: you could try mineral spirits, paint thinner, or anything else known to the State of California to cause horrible diseases. Just make sure to ventilate and check it doesn't dissolve your plastic. If you are worried that a nasty solvent might leave a toxic residue, you just do a two-step process: first use the nasty solvent to do the real work, then use rubbing alcohol or some such more palatable solvent to remove the residue.If you must go purely mechanical and you want to spare the plastic, the mildest abrasive for this sort of thing is usually scouring pads (e.g. ScotchBrite) and scouring powder (e.g. Barkeepers Friend). I personally prefer to avoid scouring powder with bleach (e.g. Ajax, Comet). Scouring powder is a real abrasive, but it's a fine one, and sometimes it has just the right grit to damage the gunk you want to clean off but not the substrate you want cleaned. YMMV.
How do I remove oil stains from my clothes?
Blot away any excess grease or oil with a paper towel. Try to get as much grease or oil away from the clothing as possible before you move on to the next step.Cover grease or oil stain generously with baby powder. You can use generic baby powder if you like.Remove the baby powder from the clothing with a paper towel or spoon. Do this carefully, avoiding any spillage onto other parts of the clothing.Work a small amount of hand dish washing detergent and water into stain with your thumb. Once the detergent begins to foam up, take an old toothbrush and begin rubbing the stain using circular motions.Be sure to attack the stain from both sides of the fabric (inside the shirt and outside the shirt, for example).Wash the clothing, alone, with laundry detergent. Follow washing instructions on clothing label exactly.When ready to dry, allow the clothing to air-dry. Drying in the extremely hot mechanical dryer may cause any lingering oil or grease to set into the clothing.
How to get garlic oil out of clothes?
I was taking out the trash and garlic oil got all over my clothes! It smells and has made a huge stain. Do you know of any items that will provide some hope for my outfit? Thanks
Books: How do I remove cooking oil from a page in a textbook?
I sincerely hope that the print hasn't smudged ( it happens with the NCERT textbooks)1) The safest,tried and tested method- gently spread (do not rub )a layer of talcum powder or cornflour/cornstarch over the oil stained page. Let it stick like that for a while ,then brush it off.Repeat till stain is considerably removed. Talcum powder and cornstarch have an ability to absorb oil/moisture to a certain extent!2)If you do not want to use the powder technique, go for this. Place tissue paper ( paper kitchen towels also work well)on both sides of the affected page(s). Shut the book and then place something heavy on the top. But ,this method has its risks. Sometimes, in the case of extremely bad quality paper/printing ink, the printed words may tend to stick on to the tissue paper :/.Cheers. I hope the oil stain comes out .(this has happened to my 11th std Biology textbook.. It was NOT a pretty sight)
How to removed stickiness from a plastic card?
I have a school ID card and I hate my picture, so I put some stickers over it, now over the summer I need it to go swimming. I took all the stickers off but it's still sticky from the stickers. How do I take of the yucky sticky feeling?