How do you remove gum from clothing?

olliemill

so now most of the chewing gum is removed but the problem bit is always the last bit which is pressed into the fabric. I tried rubbing it with vinegar and nothing happened, then i tried the 'iron it through a hankie' technique and now a small white patch of gum is a black burned patch of gum. trousers ruined...

jackieb

olliemill wrote: »

so now most of the chewing gum is removed but the problem bit is always the last bit which is pressed into the fabric. I tried rubbing it with vinegar and nothing happened, then i tried the 'iron it through a hankie' technique and now a small white patch of gum is a black burned patch of gum. trousers ruined...

Have you tried acetone free nail varnish remover? I got glittery glue off my daughter's school sweatshirt with it only yesterday.

Simeno

Found this in a page I'm not allowed to post here, sorry, after reading through the 15 ways on some page and nothing was able to convince me... and I was so surprised it worked so well!

"To be used when chewing gum is spread in and can't just be scraped off:

Cover with washing up liquid
Pour on loads of salt
Scrub with a sponge/ cotton wool/ cloth
Repeat as necessary

And voila! It disappears!"

BrigadeKate

katiepops wrote: »

Off topic slightly, whenever I hear about chewing gum being stuck to things I get really cross.

I think perhaps I need to get a life - I remember oh so clearly taking my lovely brand spanking new Heaven 17 LP to school when I was in the sixth form in 1983/4 (we were lucky enough to have a record player in the common room and it was a bid to stop the school slappers brigade from playing UB40's Red Red Wine over and over and over and over and over again).

Anyway, one of said slappers brigade (she had no idea how to put foundation on - her face was almost orange and she had a very obvious foundation and powder tidemark around her jawline) was not best pleased at the removal of UB40 from the playlist (we'd only heard it about 120 times that day), so she 'accidentally' squished her gum into the inside sleeve of my lovely pristine LP cover. I never did manage to get it off :mad:

There you go, 20 or more years later and I would still like to punch her lights out - do you think I should let these feelings of anger go now??

Kate

Kate, quite frankly, you do need to get a life. My foundation lines were actually contour lines which you'd know nothing about so take that tesco value foundation bottle and stick it where it hurts. I'm sorry you didn't get into the brigade, pasty girls with no Jawlines don't get in..

Also, on a more relevant note I was able to remove the chewing gum with a credit card rubbed at my crotch for 2 hours straight. Needless to go into detail, my leggings ended up moist and gum free!

Ps. The gum on your blazer was no accident, I hope you binned that ratchet garment

...NEVER kill my vibe again...

shoi

Chewing gum on a pair of cotton shorts,
After freezer treatment (which got the bulk off but still loads left) we tried
Dylon fabric care stainsolve prewash No 1
(looks like a roll on deodorant and smells a bit ammoniay(?) but says it isn't a bleach
anyway it worked a treat

dorothyjeffery

lakeland - or a good shop like robert dyas - and get some 'sticky stuff remover'. not cheap but works miracles. about £5 a pot but lasts for ages. my last pot lasted about 2 years and it removes grease from clothes as well.

pjmony

Thanks for all the tips people have posted.
I tried washing up liquid and LOTS of salt on the remains of some
gum that was worked well into some trousers.
After a few minutes scraping with my finger nails it's almost all gone.