How to remove ink stains from a plastic baby doll, what a great tip! I received this advice from The Mom-tage with her heartbreaking story of how her daughter wrote on her Mom’s 50 year old doll.
I bring you the antique that my mom has cherished for over 50 years. The ONLY doll my mom had as a child. The one that her parents really couldn’t afford and probably sold a kidney for.. I think I remember a story about someone walking three miles in the snow up hill both ways to get this doll!
How to Remove Ink Stains From a Plastic Baby Doll
Use this very unlikely remedy of Clearasil Stayclear Vanishing Acne Cream. HA! That’s right.
1. Pull back the doll’s hair and remove any clothing that is near to avoid bleaching it.
2. Liberally apply 10% benzoyl peroxide acne treatment cream to any areas with ink. Be careful to avoid the eyebrows. We now have a Barbie without eyebrows. So much for Barbie being perfect.
After removing one doll’s eyebrows, I began to use a q-tip to make sure I avoided any areas that I didn’t want to be bleached.
3. Lay the doll in the sun. Emma’s dolls took two applications to completely remove the ink. My mom’s took four since Chloe had skillfully and repeatedly scribbled in one spot and it had sat on the doll longer. Just keep reapplying until the ink is completely gone.
I’ve read that spraying a dolls hair with fabric softener works on removing tangles! Saw it on Pinterest!
I bought a doll from the local charity shop. Because it was badly defaced with ink pen, I only paid $2.00.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
I didn’t think of it until now, but what possesses our kids to use an ink pen to draw all over the faces of dolls? Crayon or marker – sure, I could see that, but ink? I digress…I had an old Cabbage Patch Kid that I gave to my daughter and within 2 days, she had colored his bald head with blue ink. I tried the acetone and accidentally got some in his eye so now his eye is a little smeared, but it didn’t get any of the ink off. I’m going to try this tonight – thank God I still break out like a teenager!!
I used this method some years ago on my granddaughter’s dolls. It was mid-winter on rainy Vancouver Island so laying it in the sun was not an option. I put the doll under a reading lamp with a flexible neck and bent the light so it was about 8 inches above the doll, then left it overnight. It worked a treat.
First brush the tangles out, then boil some water and dip the dolls hair in while it’s still freshly boiled. My sister ruined a bunch of my barbies hair when we were little and I wanted to make them look like new again and this trick works beautifully! It straightens all of the bends in the hair and makes it soft again. It may need several times for those really frizzy ends and you can use little sewing spools to add curls too.