One of my recent guests, got pen ink on the sheets. A real nice perfectly round dark spot the size of a dime. They are Costco sheets, Charisma, so they are not expensive and they weren’t new, so we settled on $20 to put towards replacing them. The stained sheets have already been washed several times, without any attempt to treat the stain. Later, I started to wonder if there is anything to get ink out of sheets, so I Googled it and the top result was to use alcohol based hand sanitizer… Figuring that I had nothing to loose, I bought a bottle and went to work. - My advice, if you find yourself trying this, tie off the section that needs to be treated and put the rest inside a plastic bag, so that you won’t spread it, because once the sanitizer hits the sheets, it starts to dissolve the ink - rapidly!!! I wound up having to clean up more than the original spot. I started the process a couple of hours ago, apply, soak, rub, rinse, repeat. The spot is nearly gone. I am going to leave it over night and then wash tomorrow. I’m pretty happy with the result so far. I have a duvet cover that still has an old ink stain from another guest a couple of years ago. I’m going to try to cleaning that next!
What have you got to loose? Try it!
