Spilt Nail Varnish
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please help me through your page in The Listener? A bottle of dark, thick nail varnish was knocked over on a heavy linen tea-cloth. I have asked two local dry cleaners, but they both said they could do nothing with it. It is rather a good piece of material, and I should be much obliged if you could suggest something.-‘"Radio" (Napier). I am afraid our amateur efforts will hardly be successful if the ‘professional dry cleaners pronounce against the possibility of cleaning your tea-cloth. However, let us at any rate, try. Get from your chemist a little amyl acetate, and soak the stain in it. If no good, ask him for acetone, and try that. Have you tried the ordinary nail varnish remover? You will, of course, have to wash the cloth properly afterwards, and very often the stain which has seemed hardly dimmed at all by the remedy, does prove to have been loosened by it, and comes. right out when washed afterwards. Use only warm, soapy water, not hot, do not tub soap on, Another remedy is pure methylated spirits from the chemist. Soak for an hour or two before washing. Do let us know how you get on, for your experience will help other people who may find themselves in the same dilemma,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 23
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224Spilt Nail Varnish New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 23
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