Pimple on lip or cold sore: how to tell a lip pimple from a cold sore, other lip bumps, treatments for each, bumps inside the lip, and when to see a doctor
Pimple on Lip or Cold Sore? How to Tell, and How to Treat Each

A sore red bump on your lip sends most people straight to the mirror with one question: is this a pimple, or is it a cold sore? The answer decides…

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How to get food coloring off skin: cool water and soap, baking soda for Easter egg dye, oil for gel colors and turmeric
How to Get Food Coloring Off Skin (Liquid, Gel, Easter Egg Dye and Natural Colors)

Red hands after the cupcakes, blue fingertips from the Easter eggs, a green palm from the slime kit. Food coloring is the most common stain in a kitchen with children…

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How to get the gasoline smell off your hands: why soap fails, the soap-oil-soap method, and when the smell is a warning
How to Get the Gasoline Smell Off Your Hands (and Why Soap Alone Fails)

You filled the mower, the nozzle dripped, and now your hands smell like a forecourt. You have washed them twice and the smell is still there, on the steering wheel,…

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How to get ink off skin: ballpoint with alcohol, gel and fountain pen ink with soap, printer toner dry then cold water
How to Get Ink Off Skin (Ballpoint, Gel, Fountain Pen, Printer and Toner)

A pen leaks in a pocket, a cartridge splits while you are changing it, a child draws on their own arm, a stamp pad tips over. "Ink" covers all of…

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How to get fake tan off hands - why nothing dissolves it, what fades it, and why palms and knuckles go darkest
How to Get Fake Tan Off Your Hands (and Self-Tanner Off Skin)

The body looks fine. The hands are the giveaway: orange knuckles, dark creases across the palm, a tide line at the wrist, and colour packed into the cuticles. Fake tan…

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How to get epoxy off skin - soap while it is wet, patience once it is cured, and the rash that comes two days later
How to Get Epoxy Off Skin (Wet, Cured, and the Rash That Comes Later)

Epoxy on skin arrives in one of two states, and they are different problems. Wet epoxy, still tacky from the mixing cup, is a ten-minute job with soap and a…

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How to get permanent marker off skin - non-toxic, off in minutes, and the two real exceptions
How to Get Permanent Marker Off Skin (and Whether It Is Dangerous)

A toddler found a Sharpie and decorated both forearms. Or you wrote a phone number on the back of your hand and it is still there three showers later. Either…

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How to get spray paint off skin - the oil method, and the one case that is an emergency
How to Get Spray Paint Off Skin (and When It Is an Emergency)

You were spraying a chair leg in the garden, or touching up a bike frame, or helping with a school project, and a fine mist landed on the back of…

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How to get lash glue off skin: why acetone is never the answer near your eyes
How to Get Lash Glue Off Skin (and Why Acetone Is Never the Answer)

There is a hard, shiny line of glue along your lash line, or a fingerprint of it drying on your eyelid, or a smear on the back of your hand…

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How to get tree sap off skin: alcohol beats oil, and the sap that burns a day later
How to Get Tree Sap Off Skin (and the Sap That Burns a Day Later)

You brushed against a pine trunk, or carried the Christmas tree in, or leaned on a picnic table under a conifer. Now there is a patch of amber glue on…

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