OMG! I don't know what possessed you to try vinegar, but I owe you a lot of money and countless hours of my time! My daughter recently got some gluey goopy substance stuck in her pretty, long hair. that would certainly teach them a lesson, wouldn't it?
I promise, no matter how bad it looks, you will not have to cut the child's hair. Put some on and let it sit for a while to soak in. No matter what you use to dissolve or soften the putty or glue, patience will still be required. Peanut butter (although some say it works only for gum).Baby oil or vegetable oil (any cooking oil, really).Also, note that some of these were tested on commercial Silly Putty, not the homemade stuff, so your mileage may vary. I haven't tried these, but I'd love to hear from anyone who has. Now, for the sake of completion, I'll list other products that are claimed to get glue or silly putty out of hair. For clothes, soak the affected area in vinegar for a minute or so and then rinse well with water. For rugs, pour some on and rub with a paper towel. Incidentally, the vinegar also works well for removing homemade silly putty from carpets and clothing. probably because vinegar is a good hair rinse. After that her hair dried very quickly and looked great. Once I got most of it out, I shampooed her hair, took her outside, and poured a pitcher of warm water on her head to rinse it out. It's important not to allow the hair to dry, because then you'll have hard glue in the hair and that's just bad. So I kept wrapping and wiping down the hair in vinegary paper towels until almost all of the goop came out. (Alum is often used as a preservative in craft recipes, but that obviously won't work with silly putty.) I actually used all three and found that they worked equally well. Just sprinkle them onto the putty and it instantly becomes sticky, runny and gluelike. You can also use cream of tartar or alum (both are powders found in the herb section of the grocery store). Vinegar is an amazing substance, don't you think? In this case, it reverses the chemical reaction between starch and glue, instantly returning them to their original states. I poured the stuff liberally onto paper towels and wrapped them around the matted hair. That's right, plain old white vinegar, and also some cider vinegar we had in the school kitchen. I did this because of the next step - vinegar. Then, I stripped her down to her underwear and pinned a bath towel around her. First, I detached as much of the goop as I could without pulling out the poor kid's hair. So faced with this situation, here is what I did. Right to the roots of her thin, baby-fine hair. It only takes moderate pressure, we discovered early this morning in my preschool classroom, to attach a very large glob of putty to one's head. In a contest between the child's hair and the putty, the putty will win. On the other side you've got approximately two cups of homemade silly putty - the kind made with glue and liquid starch. On the one side you've got your three-year-old wild child. Knowing that is what got me through the hour-long process I'm about to describe.Īll righty then. The upside is that you, dear readers, get to benefit from what I learned today.
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