{"id":18516,"date":"2014-04-24T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18516"},"modified":"2014-04-15T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T02:24:11","slug":"cleaning-dirty-polymer-clay-not-baked-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/cleaning-dirty-polymer-clay-not-baked-yet\/18516\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Dirty Polymer Clay That&#8217;s Not Baked Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18516#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Cleaning Unbaked Polymer Clay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-04\/24-90511-cleaing-unbaked-polymer-clay.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #511:<\/span> By far, my absolute favorite method for cleaning unbaked polymer clay is 99% Isopropyl Alcohol.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Try your best to keep your work area as clean as possible to help prevent you polymer clay from getting dirty in the first place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But there are ways to clean raw unbaked polymer clay if it does get dirty with lint, dust, sweater fuzz, pet hair from dogs and cats, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Be sure to clean your polymer clay before baking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First try to carefully remove large bits of clay\/dirt\/lint with a clay blade.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Using a kitchen cleansing cloth (or baby wipe) to wipe dirt off the surfaces of the clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I prefer Kitchen wipes over baby wipes because they have a stronger cleaners in them, so they work better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Baby oil or clay softener on a paper towel can work to remove dirt from clay, but not as well as other options.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">99% Isopropyl Alcohol (Rubbing alcohol) on a paper towel or Q-Tip works the best for removing dirt and lint from polymer clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Fingernail or needle tool will help with removing hairs and lint from surface.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In a future video I will show you how to remove dirt and lint from Baked Polymer Clay pieces.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb6pC3kopj4\" height=\"323\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18416#video\">Polymer Clay &#8211; Keeping it Clean<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18489#video\">Polymer Clay Blades<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17903#video\">Polymer Clay Pasta Machine Cleaning Tip 1 Baby Wipes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=107\">How to Bake Polymer Clay so that Your Whites Stay White<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tb6pC3kopj4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Cleaning UnBaked Polymer Clay &#8211; Lint &amp; Dust<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #511: By far, my absolute favorite method for cleaning unbaked polymer clay is 99% Isopropyl Alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2662],"tags":[237,405],"class_list":["post-18516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-studio-tips","tag-rubbing-alcohol-acetone-solvents-cleaners","tag-white-clay-dirty-clean-wipes-pet-hair-lint-fuzz-dust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}