Silicone on coat

[dan2002]

Hi there I have silicone on my puffer jacket. What product would be best to remove it? Should I try vanish powder?

 

[^woody^]

I'd ditch the puffer and get something more stylish.

No, vanish wont make silicone vanish. There are silicone removal gels, but what they would do to the material, let us know.

 

[securespark]

Either way, you will be getting rid of the jacket, so I would try a silicone softening and removal agent and see what happens. Once you have scraped off the agent, wash the jacket immediately and air-dry.

Bon chance.

 

[The Samaritan]

It won't be easy and it wont be as good as new and most likely cause some damage

Freeze it and scrape it off - but as its a puffa jacket my feelings are it will get damaged.

 

[dan2002]

I want to keep the jacket. Its not too major the stains, I have scraped some parts of, the residue is still left

 

[The Samaritan]

I want to keep the jacket. Its not too major the stains, I have scraped some parts of, the residue is still left

Thanks
did you freeze it???

 

[fillyboy]

If it's just the residue left, 'wonder wipes' or similar from builders merchants are pretty pretty good at removing silicone.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Never was able to remove it from my work trousers. The thing with silicone on trousers is it looks a bit dodgy, especially when leaving the house of a nice lady with a grin on your face.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

I'd ditch the puffer and get something more stylish.

No, vanish wont make silicone vanish. There are silicone removal gels, but what they would do to the material, let us know.

silicone removal gels are about as useful as covid vaccines.

 

[denso13]

silicone removal gels are about as useful as covid vaccines.

The vaccine will never remove silicone, it wasn't designed for that.

 

[^woody^]

silicone removal gels are about as useful as covid vaccines.

I agree. They do stop working over time, so may need to be reapplied for best effect

 

[johnny2007]

Scrape off as much as you can with fingernails (that's when the cost of wife's nails comes useful)
Then colour whatever is left with a sharpie.

 

[dan2002]

Thanks
did you freeze it???

What do you mean by freeze LOL?