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Ink, Sharpie and Dry Erase Stains

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Date: 11/09/2004 Topics: Cleaning > Stains | Readers Request > Cleaning  
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I need some help with a ink/sharpie/dry-erase stain. My husband is in the Navy and I take care of his uniforms. He has managed to get an ink stain, a sharpie stain, and a dry erase stain on his uniforms. Does anyone know how I can remove them quickly?

thanx, chompers_41
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By Sally_Admin (154) Profile Blog! Contact
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Its methanol. no capital letters. Since this alcohol is endemic in laboratories, there is no reason to capitalize as if its a proper noun. Spelling counts, as well!

Try using cyclohexane or toluene, or maybe a 50/50 (v/v) phenol/chloroform mixture. That will dissolve most anything.

Anonymous

Posted on 07/19/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Joanne (Guest Post)
I have an even better one. I picked up my 14 yr old from school today to discover that she coloured her own hair with a RED SHARPIE! This genius child actually thinks that SHARPIES are NOT permanent!

Did I mention that her hair is PINK in one spot, right in front of her face! Needless to say I am less than pleased! I am not going to bother with helping her to remove it, I am going to fix this the old fashioned way, with SCISSORS! Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted on 02/13/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Rebekah (Guest Post)
WOW! Because of what I read on this page, I was able to remove blue pen ink from the front cover of a book (padded cardboard covered in some type of vinyl). I used the rubbing alcohol, and it looks BRAND NEW! Thanks :-)

Posted on 01/15/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Rebecca (Guest Post)
Acetone Nail Polish Remover worked better than rubbing alcohol (or any other cleaner) to take blue dry erase Expo marker stains off new tile grout on our bathroom floor! Thank you for all the ideas - I was panicked!

Posted on 01/11/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By clayton (Guest Post)
My 3 year old son wrote ALL over my brown leather couch with a expo dry erase marker. Any suggestions? I've tried alcohol, coppertone, leather cleaner and some stuff called uv-3 leather ink erase and none have worked yet. PLEASE HELP.

Posted on 11/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By molliecassie2001 AT yahoo.com (Guest Post)
My 2 year old drew with a green sharpie on my mother's very nice mico-fiber couch and its a dark brown. How do I get the stain out before she comes home? crying mommy

Posted on 11/24/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By mom in NC (Guest Post)
I tried the rubbing alcohol and the polish remover and the polish remover worked best on clothing.

Posted on 11/23/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Tiffany (Guest Post)
The rubbing alcohol worked wonders when I used it to get rid of the dry erase stains from my walls! Thanks for the tips! ;)

Posted on 08/13/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Amanda (Guest Post)
How do i get dry erase board markers marks off of a white wall without taking off the paint?

Editor's Note: I had this problem, I'd tried everything on just one line on my wall from a dry erase marker. All kinds of cleaners. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser took it right off. Get it wet, squeeze out and try on some of the spots. Be careful though because if you scrub too hard, you can also take off the paint.

Posted on 07/29/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By midnighttoker (Guest Post)
I just tried your suggestions for a sharpie marker stain on a desk, and the nail polish remover was wonderful. Thanks for the tip! 5-1-08

Posted on 05/01/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Amy (Guest Post)
Many thanks. 20 month old just drew on blue carpet in rental house, not on his dry erase board. Mother panicked. Read posts. Used cheap hairspray. Stain gone. Happy mother. Child off hook :)

Posted on 04/14/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By guest (Guest Post)
I totally agree with using the hairspray, acetone, and rubbing alcohol. They work terrific and if these don't work, nothing will!

Posted on 03/26/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Leo (Guest Post)
I've read a lot of these posts, and most of you are saying to use either rubbing alcohol or hairspray to get expo markers or sharpies out of carpet. Does the stain area come out lighter in color or no change in the carpet after the stain is removed?
I've got two red expo stains in my kids room, and laundry deter, and carpet cleaning did nothing. Please let me know if the R.A. or the hairspray changes the coloring of the carpet. Thanks.

Posted on 02/05/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Emma (Guest Post)
I don't know if anybody here needed/wanted to know how to get Sharpie marker off of a whiteboard, but I know how to do it in seconds! Here is what you do: take an Expo marker and trace over the Sharpie marks. Then, use a whiteboard eraser to erase it all! Yay! :)

Posted on 01/09/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By (Guest Post)
i got green expo marker on my new jeans what on earth do i do?

Posted on 12/17/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By leslie (Guest Post)
Still confused about what to use on leather (dry erase) ottoman, as I'm afraid of lifting color out of the leather. Thank you to anyone who can help me. I have a really unhappy grandpa in the house right now. Merry Christmas

Posted on 12/09/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Erica (Guest Post)
USE HAIRSPRAY! Hairspray works the bet out of anything that anyone posted!

Posted on 10/22/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By (Guest Post)
How do i get a sharpie stain out of my athletics bag without bleaching it?

Posted on 10/20/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By happy mom and daughter (Guest Post)
My daughter got bright red dry erase marker streaks on her favorite blue jeans. She didn't tell me and they went thru the wash and dryer before I discovered them. I followed some of the above advice and I saturated the stains with dry erase cleaner spray and let it sit one hour, then I scrubbed Murphy's Oil soap with a tooth brush....nothing. I was worried. Then, I followed one more piece of advice and took a tooth pick and scraped at the stain thru the fibers of the denim and with some effort got all of the stain out. Couldn't believe it. I almost gave up...I'm glad I didn't...Thanks for the advice!! 10/15/07

Posted on 10/15/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By sarah (Guest Post)
My daughter wrote in her closet with a sharpie. I tried hair spray, mr clean magic eraser, finger nail and polish remover, but some is still there. How do i get it off without using paint?

Posted on 08/16/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By P (Guest Post)
Our son wrote all over our white appliances with sharpie and nothing took it out quite like nail polish remover.

Posted on 08/14/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Amira (Guest Post)
My daughter got dry erase marker stains on her dress and I put some stain remover on it and wet it. It didn't work, but now I'm worried that since I wet it nothing else will work.

Posted on 05/30/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Brandi (Guest Post)
I have tried EVERYTHING everyone said and the sharpie is NOT comming out of my daughters new dress....

Posted on 04/29/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By stephanie (Guest Post)
HELP!!! My daughter wrote on our brown leather sofa with a sharpie. How, if possible, can I get it out?

Posted on 04/25/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By (Guest Post)
so your sayin' i should use rubbing Alcohol ?do you think it would work on purse??

Posted on 04/18/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By (Guest Post)
At work, We use Methonal Alcohol. It is the alcohol that the race cars use.

Posted on 04/07/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By caleb (Guest Post)
i have a pair of blue jeans and i left a ball point pen in the pocket in the front and it washed and dried.. and its been sitting on the jeans for quite some time about a week i used alcohol and its not working at all please someone got any bright ideas?

Posted on 04/04/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Name (Guest Post)
Be careful with alcohol because it dissolves paint also, so for example if u got sharpie on your wall, itll get the sharpie off, with the paint lol

Posted on 03/28/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Rhea (Guest Post)
I have some sharpie marks on my arm post surgery and can't get them off. What should I try. I can't scrub them as they are still sore

Posted on 03/18/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By nomonos (Guest Post)
what do you rub it in with

Posted on 01/20/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Jessica (Guest Post)
I used some stain remover and my EXPO stain never came out. It almost lifted but no. Can i do any Thing? PLZ

RE: Ink, Sharpie and Dry Erase Stains

Posted on 09/10/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Anne (Guest Post)
Try Amodex Ink & Stain Remover. I heard about it from the marker company Sanford and swear by it. Amodex is
a liquid, cream soap (really mild) and takes out all inks including Sharpie. Just don't put anything else on the stain first or you might set it. Don't use alcohol!

Posted on 08/22/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Matt (Guest Post)
In the lab we use acetone, common nail polish remover. Acetone is a great solvent, that dissolves many compounds.

Posted on 08/12/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Martin Schmitz (Guest Post)
"GooFoFF" will cut any stain

Posted on 11/18/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Whitney (Guest Post)
We didn't have rubbing alcohol. We just used some bacardi 151, and it worked pretty well with a little old fashioned elbow grease

Posted on 08/14/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By fatly34 (Guest Post)
Hey people. I got dry-erase marker in my pimped out white hat. Any tips?

Posted on 06/17/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Michelle from Tennessee (Guest Post)
Try Clorox Stain Out. My husband works as a server in a busy restaurant and i have found that this stuff is my "miracle" solution. I have removed everything from raspberry syrup to ink.

Posted on 05/11/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Brad G (Guest Post)
Alcohol does work best.

Hairspray, particularly cheap harispray works so well because it has a lot of alcohol in it.

If your really desparate, a lot of drug stores sell 91% isopropyl - which is stronger than the usual 70% that they sell.

Posted on 04/17/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Julie Summers (Guest Post)
Ya! Hairspray really works! I had a sharpie dug into my carpet, and the hairspray did the trick!

Posted on 02/12/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By rachel (Guest Post)
the hairspray idea is ok, but the rubbing alcohol is the best. the ink comes off in one swipe.

Posted on 01/27/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Erin (Guest Post)
My 4 year old son decided to take a sharpie and write on all his playstation game cds. I used rubbing alcohol and the marker lifted right off.

Posted on 01/18/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By (Guest Post)
I'm not sure about Sharpie pens, but I know that hairspray works wonders to remove ink stains. In my experience, the cheaper the hairspray, the more effective its power is! (Think: Aquanet!)

Good luck!

Posted on 11/12/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Lee-Ann (Guest Post)
I know that toothpaste scrubbed in will get rid of regular ink stains, it might do for the dry erase marks too. We used turpentine to get Sharpie ink off of our walls without wrecking the paint, maybe you could try it on a hidden piece of the uniform to see if the material can take it first. Good luck, my husband is a carpenter and i have to get rid of all kinds of stains too!! :)

Posted on 11/10/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse

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