I used Purell hand santitizer to remove permanent marker stains from an oak table (I have used Purell before without problems). The marker stains are gone but it left a cloudy white stain on the table. I have tried baking soda, toothpaste and paper towels with a iron. Please help!
Sounds like the alcohol in the purell ate into the finish thats on the wood. The only solution that I know of is to sand down and refinish.
Try rubbing the spot with white toothpaste. Let set for about 20 minutes, then buff with a soft cloth. This method has worked to remove white cloudy spots from my dining room table caused by sitting a hot plate directly on the table. It can't hurt.
Try infusing some tea bags in a bowl of hot water- til it's as close to the colour of the table as possible- allow to cool. Then with a cloth-dip into the tea solution and rub over the mark. It MAY blend the mark in with the rest of the table that way.
Monique x
Somerset. UK
it certainly sounds like something, probably the alcohol in the purell removed the stain from the wood. You can purchase pens of wood stain at paint stores that are meant to be used to correct such problems,if it is solid wood not plastic veneer over fiberboard. Also if you can match the color, try permanent marker and wax used for wood, but the stain touchup marker pen would be better, I think.
try mayonaise. Let stand a short while then wipe off with a clean cloth. It worked on a water stain for me.
Didn't have any mayonnaise, so thought I'd try some "Miracle" Whip just for grins. It worked!
This worked! Rubbed in toothpaste, waited a bit, then buffed out. Finish looked dry after, a little old English and its good to go.
I tried your suggestion to use white toothpaste to remove the stain but didn't work on hand sanitizer stands on wood. I also tried baking soda with a little vinegar but it also didn't remove the stain.
Please help me I can not get hand sanitizer of my table
Hi PG1208,
What was the hack you used to removed the sanitizer stain on the wood door? I have a stain from sanitizer on my wood floor.
Thanks,
Valerie
A sos pad works great
Mayonnaise...I just left it on a few minutes and wiped away.. looks like new!
Im super late but I see people saying things that I def didnt have on hand but PERFUME OR OIL SAVED MY LIFE SUCH A HACK thank me later
I just used SOS pad and it works without any damage to my floor. I then used a wet cloth to remove the residue from SOS pad and then my normal floor cleaner.
Remove white stains on wood from alcohol based hand sanitizer spills: One teaspoon vegetable oil mixed with 1/4 cup cold water left soaking on wood table 15 minutes miracously got rid of the white stains on my very nice wooden kitchen table from spilled hand sanitizer. I really lucked out just as a last ditch effort, I applied it within 10 minutes after the hand sanitizer spill ( after first trying soap and water and then Bona hard wood floor spray which did nothing) . Single, self-sufficient middle aged man with a plan !
I had a cleaning team drop hand sanitzer on my wooden floor in an attempt to clean the sticky floor. The sanitizer left large white marks on the wood floor all over the living room.
I read on the forums to try Mayo and it worked!! So well in fact that you couldnt tell the marks were there - and there were many of them.
What I did:
I took Mayo (Hellmans!) and applied it to each spot on the floor individually. I then let it sit until the Mayo turned color a bit (about 10 mins) and then took a clean white tshirt and rubbed over and around the marks. The floor of course became greasy (which can be handled seperately) but it became clean.
Be careful, its easy to skid on the floor after its that greast!
Hope this helps.
I live in an apartment building. During the lockdown, one of the maintenance personnel who knows that I have a damaged immune system decided to help by wiping my wooden entry door with a product containing bleach. After two weeks of trying different products to remove the damage I finally remembered about using mayonaise. It worked with just a bit of rubbing!
No, no baby wipes, please. Someone was cleaning my husbands side table with baby wipes, it left a cloudy mess on the table and stripped the shine. I wiped and rubbed the table a few times with Old English scratch cover and it worked perfectly. Shiny top table.
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A kid chewed on it and I put water and hand sanitizer on it. How do I repair it? It has great sentimental value as my grandfather suffered greatly with cancer and this is all I have left of his. BTW someone told me it was olive wood before it got stained, and it was stained everywhere as I immersed it.
Please help!
I would get a wax wood crayon (available at hardware stores) in a matching color and put it on to cover it up.
According to wonderhowto.com Jack Ray says "Do not use any cleaner or rubbing alcohol. It can stain or damage permanently. To remove the stain you will need 2 small/large clothes and some mayonnaise. Squirt the mayonnaise on the surface and rub into area.
You can try this site...www.hunker.com/
This is so bizarre, but reading this brought back a childhood memory of an uncle who smoked cigars and had ashes everywhere...
I can still smell that smell!! You can buy cheap cigars at discount tobacco shops. Around me they are called Puffs (love the name).
Hope it works for you!!
That happened to me. I wiped it with a damp sponge, rubbed vaseline into the stain and left it for about 15 minutes. I wiped it off with a wet towel they dried it with a dry towel. I could still see a little of the stain and walked away. I came back about 15 mins later and it was completely gone. Seems like the vaseline soaked in and finished the job even after I wiped it off.
How do I remove a white ring created by a hand sanitizer bottle on my wooden table top?
By Lo from Lancaster, PA
Preheat the iron to a low heat/warming setting with NO steam.
Place wax paper over the are with the white mark
Cover the wax paper with a towel.
Place the iron over the area for a few seconds a time. Keep the iron moving to avoid creating a new heat mark.
Repeat with a fresh piece of waxed paper until the mark is removed. Good luck.
AHHH I had the same problem and tried mayonnaise and then thought of the MR Clean magic eraser which worked instantly!
I literally just had to deal with this problem myself. My 3yo wiped hand sanitizer on my stained wood dining table, leaving cloudy bleached looking stains, couldn't get it back to normal. Finally I used Mr. CLean magic eraser and it cleaned it up without damaging the table's original stain varnish!!!
I literally just had to deal with this problem myself. My 3yo wiped hand sanitizer on my stained wood dining table, leaving cloudy bleached looking stains, couldn't get it back to normal. Finally I used Mr. CLean magic eraser and it cleaned it up without damaging the table's original stain varnish!!!
A hand sanitizer bottle left a stain on a wood end table. What can I do?
By CA Human
Method wood polish spray leave for few mins wipe.
Just did mine
We stayed at my sister's they had a beautiful wood floor. Which they recently redid. They have a new puppy. My daughter wiped up pee and put hand sanitizer to sanitize the area. Caused a huge white area. I was freaking out. I used some floor polish and it worked. Just spray floor polish let sit a bit and work in. You may have to do a coat or two but, honestly saved me from a family feud. Lol
