How to remove Marker Stains from clothes

Color is a very significant part of life. Color brings joy to life and a significant part of growing up is a child’s fascination with colors. Children of various ages as well as adults who are professionally acquainted with colors often use markers to fill colors to their art work. The use of markers isn’t just limited to children’s coloring. People use markers for a number of things life making visual aids or highlighting certain texts with different colors etc.

Markers may be used to color a number of different pictures, but sometimes you may have an accident with one of them i.e. it might land on your clothes or you might leave it in one of your pockets and it might leave a giant ugly looking stain on your clothes. In that scenario, all the joy of color is sucked out of life, leaving you in panic.

In such a situation you must remain calm and rather than panicking you must take immediate action because sometimes the marker may look good and smell amazing but it will leave a stain which isn’t easy to clean or beautiful to look at.

We have come up with the following methods for you to follow in case you or your children have had a marker accident. The directions are simple and easy to follow and the marker stain removal is always successful at the end of each method.

Method 1

The citrus solution method is safe for both colored and white clothes because while the citrus juice has a bleaching effect on clothes, it will not cause any harm to the clothes and will take the marker stains out in no time, leaving no trace of marker stains whatsoever.

Things that you will require:

·      Lemon/lime

·      Knife

·      Cleaning towel

·      Liquid detergent

·      Water

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Spread the stained clothes onto a flat surface.

2.   Cut the lemon or lime with the knife and now squeeze it over the marker stains. Either use a cleaning towel, or the lime itself onto the marker stains. The stain will start to vanish.

3.   Now pour a couple of drops of the liquid detergent onto the stained area and with the cleaning towel dab it on the stains.

4.   Do laundry as usual. This will result in a complete marker stain removal.

Method 2

The borax method is safe for bother colored and white clothes. Milk keeps the bleaching effects from causing harm to the fabric and the borax and the other ingredients will take the market stains out successfully.

Things that you will require:

·      Borax

·      Milk

·      Vinegar

·      Lemon

·      Empty bowl

·      Cotton ball

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Take the empty bowl and mix equal quantities of milk, white vinegar. Stir and mix equal quantities of borax and lemon juice. The key here is the ratio between the two pairs i.e. if you mix a tbsp. of milk and white vinegar then you should add a tsp. of borax and lemon. Mix according to the stains.

2.   Now dip the cotton ball in the solution and dab it onto the stained area. Remember to only dab rather than rubbing. Leave the solution on the stained clothes for about ten minutes.

3.   Now rinse to check if the stains have left the fabric. In case the stains have lightened but haven’t been completely removed, repeat step 2.

4.   Do laundry of the clothes as usual.

Method 3

This is a tried and tested method by a number of people who give a positive response for this method. Follow the simple steps and say goodbye to the marker stains.

Things that you will require:

·      Hot and cold water

·      Cleaning towel

·      Rubbing alcohol

·      Color-safe bleach

·      Shallow bowl

Steps that you will need to take:

1.   Run the back side of the stained clothes under cold tap water. This will take out the access color of the marker.

2.   Now fold the cleaning towel twice to make a thick padding and put it under the stain.

3.   Pour the rubbing alcohol onto the stain. The rubbing alcohol will take the color of the market out of the fabric and let the cleaning towel underneath absorb it.

4.   Take the shallow bowl and fill a quarter of it with hot water and pour the color-safe bleach in it.

5.   Dip the clothes in the bleach solution for about 15 minutes and then take the clothes out to check for the stains. By this point the stain removal will be successful.