Take that cotton ball and blot the silly putty with it. If you don’t have a cotton ball, you can use a washcloth or towel, but you’re going to stain the cloth, so make sure it’s something that you can toss out or don’t mind being stained. Soak a cotton ball in acetone nail polish remover. The next method uses acetone nail polish remover, but you can use rubbing alcohol as well if you don’t have nail polish remover. The stain left behind by the silly putty should be gone by now, and any leftover bits should come up easily. Use a damp cloth to wipe up the stained area. Then, take a dry cloth and press it down in the area hard to soak up the detergent and stain. Let the detergent soak over the area for 20-30 minutes. Cover the entire stain with the diluted detergent mixture.
Blot the carpet stain and any remaining silly putt. Next, soak a cotton ball in the diluted detergent mixture. You don’t want to use a detergent that has bleaches or chemicals that might stain the carpet. Mix Detergent with Waterįirst, mix two spoonfuls of mild laundry detergent into a cup of warm water. I’ve found that powder detergent works better than liquid detergent, probably due to potency and strength, but liquid will do the job effectively as well. If you don’t want to use the frozen method, the next is to clean the carpet with laundry detergent. You can vacuum the small bits or just pick them up by hand. Try to break it up into tiny pieces that you can easily pull up from the carpet. Last, use a knife or something with a hard surface to break up the hardened silly putty. You might have to refill the bag with new ice if it melts during the process. Then, put the bag of ice cubes on top of the silly putty. You will want at least three or four, or enough to cover the entire surface. Fill a Bag with Iceįirst, put several ice cubes in a plastic bag, the number of ice cubes depends on the size of the silly putty. Compressed air can give you freezer burn. Some people like the cans of compressed air, but you need to be careful with that method. The method works with ice cubes, but if you have ice packs, it would work just the same. One of the easiest methods to remove silly putty is by freezing it.
So from one mom to another, THANK YOU for sharing this solution.Read Verified Customer Reviews Method 1: Freezing The Silly Putty At least the cover can still be used and ugliness didn’t totally win the day, for a change! (Haha!) Including in my emotions…though I left the room before getting angry, having a solution that made a noticeable improvement helped me calm down even more, and I could show my daughter the love she needed (she felt bad enough). Sadly there is still staining, but maybe I can still find a way to get that out. Finding your article was a balm! There were more gobs of ground-in putty than I could count, but the sanitizer totally neutralized it and I could scrape it right off. Why did it have to be one of the only beautiful things we owned?! (I do try to keep the right perspective on “things” but raising kids is messy and depleting, and those covers represented a little piece of beauty in my otherwise ugly home…) I wasn’t about to put WD40 on it I’ve tried washing out putty before (don’t bother) and ice doesn’t do a THING!!! I felt so discouraged. It was an innocent accident – in fact my daughter had been trying to write a sweet message to her daddy and me on her bed rail with silly putty and it slipped off during the night! – but I still had to leave the room to have a little cry. Well, last night I discovered one of the duvets had silly putty ALL OVER it, on both sides, and particularly on the white part. The price shot up 6× as much a day or 2 after I ordered them! I even had a relative collect the package from our house when it was delivered so it couldn’t be stolen the covers were only $15 but felt “priceless” to me! I was beyond thrilled to finally give my children something they could feel proud of when friends came over, since most everything else we own is shabby. A couple years ago I happened across an amazing deal ($5/ea) on 3 brand new duvet covers that were beautiful, and a perfectly unique design for my daughters. We can’t afford much of anything new, so almost everything we own is used, hand-me-down, cheap, broken/chipped/stained/ripped…and frankly, just plain ugly.