How many times have you used food coloring and NOT gotten it on your skin? As careful as I am, I always seem to spill a little out of the container onto my hands. And if my daughters are involved, they are almost always covered in food dye by the end of our craft or activity.
A few weeks ago, we built snowman in our yard and decided to make them colorful by spraying them with a water-food coloring mixture. While it may have been the perfect touch for the snowman, it was not for my two-year-old’s hands (or face, or arms…)
Luckily, we had a few tricks up our sleeves to remove the food dye from her skin. Read on to learn how to remove food coloring from skin in seconds with these simple steps.
HOW TO REMOVE FOOD COLORING FROM SKIN
There are a few ways to remove food coloring from your skin. The key is to take action as soon as possible. The sooner you remove the dye, the easier it is to come off.
Before all options, wash hands with warm soapy water to remove as much of the stain as possible.
HOW TO REMOVE FOOD COLORING FROM SKIN OPTION 1: SHAVING CREAM
Simply rub foam shaving cream on the skin with food coloring. Massage into skin and let sit approximately 30 seconds. Then wipe off. Most, if not all, of the food coloring will have disappeared from the skin.
(This is our preferred approach!)
HOW TO REMOVE FOOD COLORING FROM SKIN OPTION 2: RUBBING ALCOHOL OR HAND SANITIZER
Dab some rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer on a cotton round/ball and rub the stain. Watch the food coloring disappear before your very eyes.
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HOW TO REMOVE FOOD COLORING FROM SKIN OPTION 3: TOOTHPASTE
Massage a whitening or non-gel toothpaste on skin with food coloring for about 2 minutes. Then wash off.
HOW TO REMOVE FOOD COLORING FROM SKIN OPTION 4: VINEGAR AND BAKING SODA
Dip a clean washcloth into a bowl of distilled white vinegar. Rub on skin until the food coloring fades. If the vinegar starts to sting, dilute vinegar with equal parts water. Avoid rubbing the stain back into the skin by using a fresh section of the wash cloth as it gets stained.
If the stain persists, add two tablespoons of baking soda with one tablespoon water to form a paste. Rub over stain for approximately one minute, then wash off.
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Thx so much 😘
they don’t work so good
Yeah
I tried all of the 4 options but none of them worked so now I am just going to wait for the stains to come off.
It worked pretty good i did the toothpaste and it went right of my child’s hand.
Ok
IT DOESNT WORK
toothpaste helped the most for my
hi
The toothpaste definitely works better. But it doesn’t help too much with the nails.
Me and my friend were baking and got food coloring on ourselves, we Googled what to do and this website popped we tried all of them the only one that helped a bit was the toothpaste one. This was helpful 😌
I was trying a lipstain andthe toothpaste did a good job at first but then some of the food coloring was still on the dead skin underneath?bif that makes any sense 🤦I have school tomorrow if my teachers see, I’ll die
Me too well some of it came out but I mostly just use shave cream 🙂
Shaving cream helps me but toothpaste doesn’t work on my hands
it works!!! it works!!!
Toothpaste one made my fingers look like food colouring never happened. For the record, my fingers all looked like they were inside someone’s asshole. Thank you!
Lmao! Glad it worked! Thanks for the heads up so I didn’t have to try everything. I’ve already been on a mission
for an hour in my kitchen trying everything so I don’t have to walk around like a Smurf.
omg toothpaste worked tysm
I know right
Toothpaste works!
so i was try to colar my slime and i thought to use food colaring and i llook like a smurf and non of thoughs worked so what do i do.
Nice I’m searching 4 my school science experiment
Use shaving cream helps me
Toothpaste works but not to well with nails and now there cold with spots .
i love them!!!!!!!!!!
idk
My mother said if none of these options work just wait and it’ll eventually come off.
Sad to say the only thing it did was 🔥ing. My ✋🤚’s thanx anyways
This toothpaste worked but did not take off so I am doing the shaving cream.
shaving cream and tooth paste helped thank you!
The shaving cream trick worked like a charm. Thanks so much!
thank you for that I got food coloring on my hands and I saw the comments and they were saying that the toothpaste one works the best so I tried it and it worked so ty
I tried all of the 4 options but none of them worked so now I am just going to wait for the stains to come off.