How to Remove Spots on Wood

Zest it Up
by Zest it Up
3 Materials
$5
20 Minutes
Easy
This is a find and fix it that you will definitely want to file away for when those accidents happen to your gorgeous wood furniture pieces. Ever left a nice fatty ring from your cup of coffee on your gorgeous wooden coffee table? Or had the steam from your boiling tea kettle blast up onto a nearby wooden cabinet? Or better yet had your coffee pot overflow with a leak and drip down your front cabinet? YEP. All that has happened to me before. But thank goodness for this trick!!

Photo Cred: Jessica Helton
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Meet the issue:






Now grab your white toothpaste (with no gel, just plain old cheap white toothpaste) and begin to rub the paste onto the problem spot…






You are basically really really finely sanding off the blemish, removing that top layer of issues






Now to give it a shiny new coat with our homemade spoon butter to fill in the “gaps” and keep your wood healthy






And voila!


As good as new!! Yay!!!


xo,


Sam & Chanda
Suggested materials:
  • White toothpaste
  • Spoon butter
  • Rag
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  • Judy Pula Judy Pula on Feb 11, 2019

    What is spoon butter, Help!!!!

  • Patricia Barton Patricia Barton on Dec 11, 2020

    What is the best way to catch an owl, we've lost chickens, guineas, and ducks to owls in the last few weeks. If they keep it up we'll be out of ducks and everything.

  • Patricia Harrington Patricia Harrington on Oct 19, 2021

    Will this work on wood floors?

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  • Joanie Joanie on Apr 20, 2018

    Thank you!!........I will try it.......I use mayo at times. Oil in the mayo. Also, a fresh piece of walnut........Voila........a lot of uses.

  • Dianne Dianne on Oct 22, 2020

    I need remove a burn spot of a count top

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