When you’ve de-mineralized each hole, fill your iron’s water reservoir and turn it on to its highest setting. Turn the steam on full blast and iron a clean, dry towel. Make sure it’s one that you don’t mind getting dirty though! That steam is going to blast all of those mineral deposits right out now that you’ve loosened them with the vinegar!
How to Clean Scorch Marks
My other iron had a couple of scorch marks on it that had been there for about as long as I can remember. Scorch marks aren’t necessarily an issue if they don’t come off on the fabrics that you’re ironing, but it’s a good idea to try to clean as much of them off as possible, just in case, so here’s a really easy way to do it.
Allow your iron to cool completely. Take a cotton makeup removing pad or a cotton ball and dampen it with nail polish remover. Swipe the nail polish remover over the scorch marks and watch them disappear!
For lighter, newer scorch marks, this actually works pretty much instantly. For more severe scorch marks, you may end up not being able to completely remove the mark, but you can remove the worst of it. What you’re really aiming to do is to remove any of the dark scorchy-ness that’s at risk of coming off while you’re ironing and getting on your fabric.
If your iron happens to have a plain metal plate, feel free to also use an abrasive scrubbing pad to try to get as much of the scorch mark off as possible. If your iron’s plate has any kind of non-stick coating on it though, stay away from the abrasives and just stick to the nail polish remover.
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