{"id":632,"date":"2005-04-23T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=632"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"truth-in-advertising-mr-clean-magic-erasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/truth-in-advertising-mr-clean-magic-erasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in advertising &#8211; Mr. Clean Magic Erasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, Mr. Clean Magic Erasers work.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that I buy something after seeing a television commercial. In fact, I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve done it in years, but after seeing all the commercials for &#8220;Magic Erasers&#8221; I decided to spend the $2 and get a couple. There were some marks on our TV room wall from the chairs rubbing against it that I wanted to try it on. And what&#8217;s $2 if they turn out to be another loser, right?<\/p>\n<p>They sat under my sink, forgotton, for a couple weeks. Today I pulled them out and brought one over to the scuff mark on my wall. Per the directions I got the thing wet, squeezed it out, and brought it over to the mark on the wall and started rubbing. Within just a few seconds I could see a difference. Holy crap! It actually works! I worked my way around the room getting rid of scuff marks.<\/p>\n<p>I then made my way to the trim around the doors that had fingerprints on it since we moved in. Cleaned it up with no problem. No way!<lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>I went into the kitchen and tackled a nasty black scuff mark on the front door that I&#8217;ve tried EVERYTHING to clean. Within a minute it was gone. AMAGAD!<\/p>\n<p>Fingerprints on the textured doors. Gone in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Dirt on baseboards.<\/p>\n<p>Scuff marks on walls.<\/p>\n<p>Marks on the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this process the sponge like thing was slowly disintegrating. It was entirely gone when I decided that I should probably stop and get back to my normal cleaning. But man, this was cool.<\/p>\n<p>So like any geek, I couldn&#8217;t leave this &#8220;Magic&#8221; mystery unsolved. I had to figure out how this works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov\/cgi-bin\/household\/brands?tbl=brands&#038;id=16003386\">householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The things are made out of: 85% Plaster of Paris, 5% Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Polymer, 5% Formaldehyde-Melamine-Sodium Bisulfite Copolymer, and 5% Crystalline Silica.<\/p>\n<p>The Formaldehyde-Melamine-Sodium Bisulfite Copolymer is the active chemical. As far as I can tell the rest is just a light abrasive (so light that I didn&#8217;t realize it was an abrasive until I looked it up, it really just feels like a sponge, but using the Magic Eraser on some surfaces is not recommended and can do damage because of the abrasiveness). I&#8217;m not sure how the active ingredient works, and Google hasn&#8217;t been much help, it just ends up bringing me to more Magic Eraser sites, I guess that&#8217;s the &#8220;Magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And side effects? The same as any other fine dust really. This is surprising, I thought something so magical would somehow kill me.<\/p>\n<p>When swung by the store this morning to pick up some rolls for lunch I got another 4-pack.<lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, Mr. Clean Magic Erasers work. It&#8217;s rare that I buy something after seeing a television commercial. In fact, I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve done it in years, but after seeing all the commercials for &#8220;Magic Erasers&#8221; I decided to spend the $2 and get a couple. There were some marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}