Removing Chewing Gum

squeaky

There's a thread on chewing gum in the link that may help:-

Chewing gum on jeans

Penny_Watcher

REMOVE CHEWING GUM

It seems to have quite a few different ideas.

HTH

Wirenth

I vote for the nail polish remover and lots of elbow grease method.

Sorry, mate, and best of luck.

sandeep_14

put the item in the freezer.
the gumwill go hard and be easy to take off then
sandeep14

jimbob_3

Thanks for those

ill try tracking down some of the spray

(not too keen or smelling of vinegar at work : ) )

Chubacheroo

I did a bad thing. I left some chewed gum (in a wrapper) in the bottom of my veeery expensive leather handbag. Needless to say, everything's stuck and icky in there.

Is there something I can use to get it off without damaging the bag? The gum itself isn't there anymore, but there is a sticky residue.

richt71

Chubacheroo wrote:

I did a bad thing. I left some chewed gum (in a wrapper) in the bottom of my veeery expensive leather handbag. Needless to say, everything's stuck and icky in there.

Is there something I can use to get it off without damaging the bag? The gum itself isn't there anymore, but there is a sticky residue.

Might be worth sticking your bag in the freezer! No I've not gone barking! Basically the elements in chewing gum go hard if you freeze them. They usually just break off in hard bits. Hope that helps?

Quackers

richt71 wrote:

Might be worth sticking your bag in the freezer! No I've not gone barking! Basically the elements in chewing gum go hard if you freeze them. They usually just break off in hard bits. Hope that helps?

Thats what I was going to suggest too!

If you are worried about putting your bag in the freezer you could just put something frozen onto the gum to get it to harden?

code^express

I was about to suggest the same as well.

Elliesmum

:j Yep - freezer trick too. I used to work in a lab where we tested cleaning products on stains and the standard method for the removal of chewing gum was to put things in the freezer.

HTH's

EM x