Remove ballpoint pens with alcohol

Ballpoint pen ink is water insoluble and requires another solvent to leave the tissue. I always take a good drop of alcohol.

One buys a clear alcohol-containing drink (at least 50% vol). The area with the stain is placed in a white porcelain dish and so that on both sides of the fabric stands out and so creates a hollow. By now the alcohol is given. Only so much that nothing can run past the garment. Then lift, with the stain at the lowest point and the seeping alcohol running right through the stain.

Folded brilliantly and another spot that was so untreatable, I kept in the remaining liquid and soaked a little and he broke up very well. After that, wash it is like new.

Ballpoint Pen and Alcohol transfers | March 2024