Maintenance Clean body paint and stains

You can try to remove the body blush/shading/paint, using isopropyl alcohol and a melanin sponge, and a new inexpensive toothbrush for the tinier to get areas. You have to unstring the doll, then soak a small piece of the sponge in the alcohol and gently scrub the fixative and paint off the doll pieces, proceed with new pieces of melanin sponges as necessary. There are other solutions people use, like acetone, however, please read on this side of the forum as some companies resins react poorly to acetone. Not all, but some have shown signs of damage after being treated with acetone, even after just a few minutes or less. I have a few varied companies' resins and have never had any issues with alcohol alone. I know some people don't like to use it, because it does take some elbow grease to remove fixative and paint/pigment of any kind. However, I prefer it, because it has never damaged any plastic, I've used it on. After you have removed all the fixative and pigment, you can use gentle soap with no colorants and or oils, preferably dish soap and warm water, to remove any remaining residues. Leave all the pieces unstrung for them to fully dry, before putting the doll together. You don't want to have any mildew growing on the doll or string. Hope that helps, and good luck! (:

 

The melanin sponge (Mr Clean white Magic Erasers in the US) are a great way to start with simple spot cleaning or those feet. If some marks persist, dip the sponge in alcohol as Enzyme instructs. The faceup can take more patience due to layers of fixative but it's worth the trouble of starting simple & taking your time.

 

You can find some useful basic tips in the sticky threads at the top of this forum. Here is a link to where it starts talking about cleaning, but the whole thing is worth a read if you are new to this kind of maintenance. There is a lot of good info in there.

I'm not sure what you mean about "tighten your wrists" but if you are simply talking about the elastic cord that keeps the doll together you can find it in lots of places.
Elastic can be bought from stores that sell doll supplies, such as Dollmore or Legend Doll, or you can buy it from stores that sell good quality sewing supplies. If you are less picky about quality and don't mind restringing a bit more often, you can check craft supply stores as well. And if you are ok with feeding a monster, there is always Amazon and Ali Express.

 

Some very good hints above, but I will add that a higher percentage isopropyl alcohol will be more effective.
In my country, chemists, pharmacies and the like only tend to sell 70% isopropyl but I find a 90% or higher most effective for cleaning marks and old faceups.

 

idk if you know but in my country every doll collectionner use magic sponge, normaly it's for cleaning the house but it's really useful and not too aggressive for the resine

 

The Magic Erasers are branded melamine sponges. You can use higher percentage isopropyl alcohol, if you don't want to use 99% for some reason, you can dilute it with some water. Good luck! (: