Maintenance How do I Wipe Clean a Vinyl Obitsu Body + Parts?

I have heard that Benzoyl Peroxide, found in most acne cream is good for removing stains from vinyl dolls. I have seen many people use it by leaving it on the vinyl for a while to sit and then rinsing it off and repeating the process. However, I'm not sure if it also would work the same with deep yellowing. I feel as though it would, but it may end up taking several applications and trials to get it to a decent color. Hopefully that helps?

 

I know @K-2! is a good vinyl doll resource. I think this thread will get moved to Off Topic / Brigadoon.

 

Updated: Solution to Yellowing Dolls and Resin Eyes (updated 2020 with Picture)

Obitsu are grandfathered in on-topic for Den of Angels, but Doll Dreaming has more vinyl-specific content :>

It looks like high-volume hydrogen peroxide works as well as benzoyl peroxide to remove yellowing. People who collect other dolls and vinyl toys use similar oxidizing agents (ie strong solution of Oxiclean laundry powder) for the same purpose. I would disassemble before cleaning because oxidizers will cause the screws to rust.
$90 for a big Obitsu is a good find! I hope you can clean her up successfully, I find the restoration work I've done on my vinyl girls makes me feel more attached to them~

 

They are! (Only the bigguns though) It shouldn’t get moved. ^^
Brigadoon is just where dolls and topics that don’t meet DoA’s exact standards of “on-topic” go, it still gets plenty of traffic so even if one of your posts were moved there it’s not the biggest deal. ^^

 

Thanks for the clarification!

 

My personal feeling is, never buy a yellowed doll unless you are knowledgeable and prepared to deal with it. Yellowing is rarely just on the surface. Hopefully you will be lucky, and all she needs is a good scrub!

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The good news is...who cares what color her internal parts are? Otherwise, do give her outsides a good scrub...maybe that's all she needs! After that, there are some helpful remedies. It's all a learning experience, after all.

 

The other good thing is Obitsu sells limbs and hands separately. I don't know how often they restock, because they seem to be out of most part aside for their optional hands, on their international English website, so if you can't remove the yellowing, you can always purchase the parts separately, as you need or can afford them. (:

I don't own an Obitsu, and never removed yellowing, but I do own a lot of OT figures and dolls, including a stain magnet silicone body by Phicen/TBLeauge, which was stained by dark thread on a new unwashed garment, and was pretty bad. I was able to use the Oxy10 acne cream to remove the stains completely, which again were pretty bad, by just applying the cream consistently after it dried for a few hours and reapplying it again. I thought about using a UV-light pen a few days into the process, and it sped things up by quite a bit -- I had read on a figure-collecting-forum that UV light (usually sunlight) is what helps activate (or speedup) the cream, so I would have probably saved a lot more time had I done that before, but I guess better late than never. Good luck!

 

I have a very badly yellowed doll that ended up taking so much work I just covered up the arms and legs with clothing. And I tried everything. You did get that doll for a steal, however.

 

Obitsu limbs are of a firmer vinyl than busts and torsos. I believe heads are of the same vinyl as busts and torsos but frequently appear harder because the vinyl in the head molds is often thicker than other parts. With all the details in the molds from eyes, noses, mouths, and ears the vinyl is really laid in there making heads seem firmer.

It's not a bad idea to wash down heads before a face up to remove any residue from the molding process and any skin oils from handling. A mild dish soap should do the trick.

 

Yellowing can be cleaned with peroxide. DGRequiem has tested it on Pullips; since Obitsu bodies are made of similar stuff, it should work on that Obitsu body as well.
(And yeah, this is probs going to Brigadoon because it isn't about resin dolls.)