Removing a sticker can well be mission impossible, especially if it has been on for a long time and the glue has been half melted. If you leave it as is, the dirt will stick right away and the result will be a horror . Therefore, it is better to leave the surface on which it was completely clean. But how do we do it? With these five tricks that we have found, it will not take anything and it will look great.
How to remove a sticker and leave no trace
If you like stickers and you usually put them on your laptop, mobile or car, you may have gone through this situation. There comes a time when the sticker gets ugly, gets dirty, loses color, or we just don't like it. If you are about to remove it by scratching the edges a little to detach it, two things can happen: it comes out whole and leaves a trace of glue or it comes out only partially and a trace of glue remains in the area that you have managed to remove. What do we do now? Do we keep scratching with our nails until it comes out whole? Well you can do it but we assure you that it will take a lot and the results will not be satisfactory at all. On the other hand, if you put any of these methods into practice, it will come out the first time:
Create a paste with both and rub the sticker with it using a sponge. While the oil softens the adhesive,
- With water and soap. How do you clean most things? Well yes, soap and water are an infallible combo for many tasks and this is one of them. Soak the object you want to remove the sticker from in hot soapy water for half an hour or so. Afterwards, it will come off on its own. This trick is great for removing labels from canning jars to reuse them.
- With the hair dryer. If your sticker is on something that cannot be submerged but does allow heat (the car, for example) then you can heat it with the dryer for 30 seconds . If it doesn't come out easily, try heating it up for another 30 seconds.
- Baking soda and coconut oil. the bicarbonate takes away the most resistant remains.
- With an eraser. This trick is great for those paper stickers (for example, bar codes or prices) that do not finish being removed the first time. 'Erase' that residue that has been left with a rubber of a lifetime, the harder the rubber, the easier it will be to remove the sticker.
- With alcohol. Alcohol is great for disinfecting and removing the remains of the stickers but it can only be used on surfaces that will not be damaged by it such as wood or some plastics. You just have to wet a piece of cotton and rub with it.
