Lapalme, Lise-Aurore wrote:
This is going to sound silly, but it's what I used to do. Try Wet Naps. For those of you wondering I'm talking about, it's those little serviettes that you get on airplanes and chicken restaurants, to wipe your hands with. You can buy them in a dispenser, usually in grocery stores. They clean the perspiration and dirt, and cool your hands.
Victorian needlework boxes included a bottle for cologne: slightly-scented alcohol, same as the active ingredient in Wet Naps.
When I used an electric typewriter, I had to change the ribbon a lot to save the brand-new ribbon for reproduction copies. I used to keep an air-tight jar of folded paper towels by the typewriter; a few drops of rubbing alcohol on the top towel soon got all of them damp enough to take off ribbon ink. Sometimes I also put in a drop of one of the extracts in the spice cupboard: lemon was *much* nicer than grape! And I didn't even try the chocolate.
My jar of damp paper towels soon became obsolete -- you can't change a ribbon more than a few dozen times before you learn how to do it without getting ink on your fingers.
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