How to wash ballpoint pen ink

We often see this at home: children’s clothes are stained with ballpoint pen ink after they come back from class. Ordinary washing methods cannot remove the ink, and no matter how hard you wash, it just won’t get clean. What should we do at this time? We need the correct washing method and some tips to remove the annoying ballpoint pen ink in our daily life.

Ballpoint pens are quite common in our lives. Since they can preserve writing for a long time, it can be seen that it is difficult to clean ballpoint pen oil. So today let us go through this article to learn in detail about how to wash the ballpoint pen ink.

1. How to remove ballpoint pen ink from clothes

1. Soak the stain in warm water (40℃) and rub it with benzene or use a cotton ball dipped in benzene, then wash it with detergent and rinse it with clean water (warm water).

2. Soak the stain with cold water, wipe it gently with carbon tetrachloride or acetone, then wash it with detergent and rinse it with warm water.

3. When the stain is deep, you can wipe it with gasoline first, and then rub it with 95% alcohol. If there are still traces, you need to use bleach to clean it. Finally, rub gently with toothpaste and soap, then rinse with clean water. But it is strictly forbidden to use boiling water for soaking.

Second, you can use a small bristle brush with some alcohol

Gently scrub along the direction of the textile texture of the pen bag. After the stains have dissolved and diffused, soak the pen bag in cold water, apply soap and scrub gently. Repeat this two or three times to basically remove the ballpoint pen oil.

If there are still a few stains left after washing, you can remove them by soaking them in hot soapy water. You can also use this method with other cotton and cotton-polyester fabrics, but if the fabric is thinner, it may be best to place a towel under the stain.

If the woolen material is stained with ballpoint pen oil, first soak the stain in a mixed solution of trichloroethylene and alcohol (in a ratio of two to three) for 10 minutes, while constantly brushing it gently with a brush. After most of the oil stains are dissolved, wash it with low-temperature soapy water or neutral laundry detergent.

I believe that after reading this article, we can understand from this article that when ballpoint pen ink falls on different clothing materials, there will be different levels of washing requirements, so we must classify clothes in our daily life. By using the above method, you can easily deal with ballpoint pen ink in your daily life.