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Repair the most gentle way to remove glue from tape on head!

Jun 6, 2025

    1. Hi all,

      I have a doll that had tape wrapped around the head. I removed the tape which is a heavy soft plastic like tape. There is a solid film of glue left from the tape. This is on the head cap. I would love to remove this residue. Any ideas? the resin is pink so I want to be really careful.
       
    2. Anything that is normally used to remove the faceup would also remove the glue - acetone free nail polish remover would be gentle on the resin and easy to get for instance.
       
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    3. If there's no faceup to worry about, I'd go with rubbing alcohol and some elbow grease.
       
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    4. Yes just the head cap not the face so no faceup worries. Just don't want to stain the pink resin ;)
       
    5. @TreeLore Just in case, if you look up online and find that the best solution to remove tack from tape is vegetable oil, don't use it! Oils are very bad for resin and they will soak into the surface. I've been using vegetable oil (seed oil, olive oil, anything works) to remove the sticky residue from adhesive labels etc. and it works very well even where alcohol does nothing at all, so it's very likely that you'll find that suggestion.
       
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    6. thanks for that won't use oils!
       
    7. I ended up using rubbing alcohol and it worked well. Of course washing the head cap well after. thanks all.
       
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