how do you remove a sharpie magic marker from a kids face?

Answer 1

try baking soda mixed with a little water to make a paste.

Answer 2

I work with quite a few chemicals at my dental lab. I end up marking my hands often with my black, red or purple sharpie. I believe the carrier [solvent] for the ink inside the sharpie is xylene C8H10 or toluene C7H8 [both very light and evaporative aromatic hydrocarbons] which are "cousins" to keep it simple to acetone C3H60 a keytone. I use straight lab acetone at the lab then soap and water but for a child's face or maybe even an adult's that may be harsh and too close to the eyes. For a pretty safe three stage near total removal here is what works... I just tried it. First apply an amount of vaseline in an amount small enough to rubbed and to lightly fingernail scrape the marked location. There is no rush here. The hand's warm finger, rather than a piece of cold tissue makes a difference in the thoroughness and ease of the marker's removal.
There are solvents and semi-solvents.
Petroleum Jelly acts as a semi-solvent in this application. Depending on how long the marker has dried and soaked in, it should remove 50 to 80 percent of it. The next thing is to dab most but not all of the vaseline off and soak a tiny piece of tissue or a Q-Tip end in nail polish remover. This is closer to a solvent. Note that nail polish remover, which contains acetone, is manufactured to come into contact with the skin for a short time. It comes in the bottle diluted with water, moisturizers and it simply is not the industrial, 100% acetone I use in the lab.
Before applying to the face, if a person never came into contact with acetone before or is not sure, a tiny dab can be applied to the underside of the wrist for a minute and washed off to see if redness, itchyness develops. In applying to the face, swirl the dampened tissue along the lines and note the blots of ink being drawn up into the tissue or Q-Tip. Be satisfied with 85 to 98 percent removal and don't wait do go to the last stage because while the stain is acetone-softened, soap and water acts as the last very effective semi-sovent.
Note the 1st stage vaseline removal was used to reduce the amount of time that the nail polish remover would have to be used and rubbed about. The third stage is to wash ones face with COOL water with a small amount of soap.
Flush your face over and over with fresh cool water. You hands should have been cleaned first. If an irritated spot or area were to develop in any method used, apply a light coat of calamine lotion. To get sharpie marks off my HANDS, I used Lava soap as a last stage: it has some pumice in it. A mild, non-abrasive, not too-perfumed soap is used for the face. May I warn you not use or substitute any orange solvent products to use on your face: they may work but they may cause a very annoying rash for hours and it can really sting your eyes many times more than acetone or soap or it may be even worse if you are allergic.
One more tip: if the sharpie was just applied, clear tape applied on and off a few times can be used to first remove up to 20% of the marker before begining the procedure above.
If you wait a few hours, you can repeat the procedure above. Yes, there is a science to almost everything. If junior drew "baby" on the baby perhaps you can skip the nail polish, used vaseline or baby oil as suggested by another poster and go to a cool water soap and rinse. Some may remain but this can be repeated with less stress on the skin over a few days.

Answer 3

Try Ajax, Nail Polish Remover, Mr. Clean or 409. I've used Nail Polish Remover on the tile and the unfinished wood to take out marker and hair dye.

Answer 4

how in hanna did the kid get the whole marker in his face???
surgery??
if you're talking about the ink, then normally a few washings with
with soap, water and a whole lot of scrubbing will get it out.
rubbing alcohol will do as well.(don't ever use whiskey!!)
God bless,
gabe

Answer 5

Put some straight dish soap on it then wash it off after a couple of minutes.

Answer 6

Rub baby oil on it and wash it off with a warm washcloth. It never fails.

Answer 7

The whole marker or just the coloring???

Answer 8

Brillo pad and Comet

Answer 9

Pull it out slowly and place a bandage on the wound.

Answer 10

use alcohol wipes...or just alcohol in general...rubbing type silly not the run of the mill drinking kind.