How to wash and remove clay from clothes, carpets, wallpaper and hair

Little kids love to make figurines made of plasticine. They are big shreds, and after such classes you can find sticky spots not only on their hands and clothes, but also on all surrounding surfaces, on the floor, and even in their hair. It is not necessary to scold your children or forbid them to pick up the clay in their hands, it is well developed motor skills. To cope with this, at first glance, a difficult problem is not difficult if you know some rules.

How to wash and remove clay from clothes

Do not try to immediately wash the clay in hot water, especially in the washing machine. Its basis is paraffin and wax, which successfully harden during freezing. Based on this:

1. Put spoiled clothes in the freezer, or put a piece of ice against the affected area.Clay can be separated from the fabric.
2. If nothing happened, try to scrape it off with a knife blade, while being careful not to cut the fabric. After this, stains may remain that are easily removable.
3. You can use a concentrated soap solution for this piece of soap dissolves in hot water. The resulting mixture is applied to the stain, after 7-10 minutes, wipe it off with a clothes brush. Now put some soda on the treated area, then calmly scroll the clothes in the washing machine.
4. Spots left after the removal of clay, can be removed by ironing a damaged thing, laid with napkins on both sides. The fat from the clay is heated and absorbed into the paper. It may take several wipe replacements.
5. There is a way to soak the clay refined vegetable oil. Make a tampon dipped in it and blot the affected area until completely soaked. After that, wash clothes in powder.
6. With colored traces of clay, it will be more efficient to use industrial stain removers, then proceed in accordance with the instructions.

How to remove clay from the carpet

The main thing is to find traces of clay on the carpet in time, then you can clean it up qualitatively, for this you need to perform the following operations:

1. Moisten the sponge in a solvent (cleaned gasoline or acetone will do), blot the stain and wipe the affected area towards the center. After that, wipe the carpet with a damp cloth.
2. A thick soap solution is no less effective in removing clay; act in the same way as in the first case.
3. There are chemicals for cleaning the interior of the car, they can also handle traces of clay.
4. If the means for freezing is applied to the clay, then using a plastic knife you can easily remove it from the carpet.
5. The remaining fatty stains can be removed using dish detergent.

How to remove clay from hair

This is a problem! And imagine how difficult it is for a mother, whose daughter with long hair "decorated" them with clay. The boy can then just cut it. Choose one of the tips from experienced parents:

1. Flannel cloth from the roots to the ends of the hair try to remove the main pieces of clay, only with dry hair! Be careful not to hurt the child.Then rinse your hair thoroughly with shampoo.
2. Use sunflower or burdock oil, it effectively softens the clay, which is then easily removed from the hair with clean wipes. After that it is necessary to wash your hair with shampoo repeatedly, but the game is worth the candle. You can drip a bit of lemon juice, then the fat is more easily washed off.
3. In light cases, you can wash your head with a balm or rinse, then the hair can be easily combed, and with the help of frequent comb you can clean out the remains of clay.

How to remove clay from wallpaper

You will not be able to keep up with the wallpaper for your child, and there may not only be paints, pencils and traces of food, worse when the wallpaper is plastered with clay. Do not worry, this problem is also easily removable:

1. Using a spatula, carefully remove the top layer of clay, especially protruding above the surface, do not reach the very base of the wallpaper.
2. Heat up the remaining marks with a hairdryer, periodically soaking the clay with a napkin. Hot temperature softens it, then porous paper absorbs residue well. Repeat the operation until the end.
3. Sponge dipped in a concentrated soap solution, wash the results of your work, just make sure that it does not flow in a stream, carefully squeeze before applying to the wallpaper.
4. Dry the wallpaper with a hair dryer to the original appearance, but do not overdry.

It will be more difficult if there are embossed wallpapers on your walls, if you don’t scrape clay with a spatula, you can damage the design. Take a piece of white clay and, sticking it to the clay on the wallpaper, sharply tear them together. Next, proceed in accordance with the above procedure using a hair dryer, napkins and soapy sponge.

Our little ones will not think of anything, we must always be fully armed to remove the traces of their merry affairs. Let the plasticine balls be the biggest problem you will face. Moreover, as you can see, everything is easily and simply eliminated.

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