Removing Hair Dye Stains From a Porcelain Sink

Hair dye easily splatters and dribbles during the process of coloring your hair. When hair dye stains your porcelain sink, the liquid quickly soaks into the porcelain enamel surface. Despite the toughness and durability of porcelain, the surface is porous and easily scratched or damaged. You can remove hair dye stains from your porcelain sink with common household supplies that are safe and effective on porcelain surfaces.

Things You'll Need

• 1/4-cup whiting
• Bowl
• 2 tablespoons ammonia
• Spoon
• Paper towel
• Nylon mesh sponge
• Rags
• Bleach

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Pour 1/4-cup of whiting into a bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of ammonia to the powder and stir the ingredients to make a paste. Add more ammonia, as needed, to create a thick poultice.

   • 2

     Smooth the poultice over the hair dye stain on your porcelain sink. Leave the poultice on the porcelain surface for one hour.

   • 3

     Remove the dried poultice with a paper towel and discard.

   • 4

     Scrub the porcelain surface with a nylon mesh sponge. Rinse the surface with water to remove all poultice residue.

   • 5

     Treat any remaining hair dye stain on the porcelain with bleach. Moisten a rag with bleach and lay it over the stain for five minutes. Remove the rag and rinse the porcelain with water. Repeat this step until the hair dye stain is gone.

   • 6

     Dry the porcelain sink surface with another rag.