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American Girl Doll Ball Point Pen Removal

 

While painting my oldest daughters room over the weekend (reveal to come!) I was picking up some toys and had a minor meltdown after discovering my youngest daughter decided to take a ball point pen to Isabell's face, legs, and body and some sort of black marker on the wrists!!

I immediately ran down stairs and tried to remove it with a magic eraser as that usually does the trick for everything. Unfortunately, it didn't do a thing! I tried hairspray, resolve for the laundry, soap and water, literally anything I could think of. 

Nothing!

I was afraid she was ruined and Ava hadn't even had her a year yet.

Ava decided to Google the dilemma (she takes after her mother) and came across a YouTube video where a girl shared how she got ball point pen off of her American Girl Doll. Her's were only minor spots and she said it could take anywhere from 4 hours to 4 days of repeating this process to see the desired results. I was leery but at this point what could it hurt? 

We picked up the products from our local Kroger during our weekly Sunday grocery day.

Items Needed:

Oxy Acne Medication - We got the Rapid Spot Treatment Maximum Action 10% Benzoyl Peroxide

Saran Wrap or Plastic Wrap- We just got Kroger brand

We got a Q-tip and lightly coated the pen marks with Oxy, covered the areas in saran wrap to help keep it in place, and set her out to sun bathe for a few hours. We also took a towel  and covered her hair to keep it from being damaged by the sun.

I was concerned knowing that this Oxy product was basically going to bleach the pen out of the vinyl. Especially since some of the pen markings we on her eye brows, lips, and teeth. 

My daughter and I made it a whole hour before heading out to check on the results. Patients is not a common trait in this family :)

Hallelujah!! The pen was gone!!

And after only 1 hour! We were ecstatic!! It actually worked and there was no visible damage to the skin, lips, teeth, eyebrows, nothing! 

I strongly encourage this fix if you get pen on your American Girl doll. I'm sure it would work on some other dolls as well but I would do a spot test first before hand.