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Well purely by ACCIDENT I have discovered the most
remarkable find. Suave Tropical Coconut Shampoo,
which cost me all of 88 cents, is a very effective
stamp cleaner. Yes it even gets Staz On off with
no problem! Yippee Skippee, I am thrilled to discover
this bit of news and just had to share it with all of you!!
How I discovered this was I had run out of dish detergent and I had a bottle of it at my kitchen sink for dishwashing(yeah I know I am pathetic LOL!!!) and I had a stamp that I needed to clean I had used Staz on and I thought why not give it a try with this shampoo and to my surprise and delight it cleaned my stamp better than any other product I have used. And it is not toxic and for 88c you get 15 ounces! And yes I have bought more dishwashing soap and am not using shampoo to wash my dishes but i am thrilled with my Happy Accident!!!
Makes sense...I know for years the best thing for getting ink off your fingers was shampooing your hair, so it follows that it would clean ink off stamps. Never woulda guessed it would take off Staz-On, though...cool!
TFS! Could you tell us how exactly you cleaned the stamp with it? Did you dillute it in water then sprayed it in a stamp scrub? Or did you just directly washed the stamp under running water? Thanks again
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Alcohol will dry out your stamps. Use it enough and your stamps will dry rot. Rubber stamps are to expensive to not take care of them properly. I have used baby wash on mine before. I will have to try the shampoo trick.
This will dry out rubber. Rubber needs to be conditioned or it will dry out and become brittle over time. alcohol draws out all the natural oils in rubber.
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Everyone keeps mentioning conditioning your rubber stamps- what are you all doing to condition them? (I'm envisioning rubbing them will some sort of oil like you do to a baseball glove :mrgreen
I just clean all my stamps (rubber & clear) at the kitchen sink- run them under warm water (most of it comes off this way) and added a tiny drop of dish soap to a small scrubby pad to get the ink out of those pesky intricate stamps. I have even used and old soft toothbrush to scrub out the stamp as well. I used to use a scrubby pad but it always stained my wood mounted stamps with the left over ink that was on the pad.
Most commercial stamp cleaners have conditioning agents among their ingredients. When making homemade stamp cleaner, the glycerin is one of the ingredients that conditions.
Thanks Nancyruth for this discovery! I went out and bought some. Haven't tried it yet though! And it seems very safe for rubber stamps -- no lanolin or alcohol!
curious about the rinsing under running water comment. Are your stamps wood mounted? wouldn't that effect the wood or the mounting glue, or the foam or something lol!
I use those veggie cleaners you can get at the supermarket. They even come in a spray bottle. They aren't harmful and most are a 'green' product to boot! Does anyone else use them and what do you think?