Absorene Book and Document Cleaner

It is fantastic. You do have to learn the right way to use it.

My husband uses Absorene Book and Document Cleaner on his comic books, and he absolutely loves it. It works wonders on cleaning the pages, restoring them without damaging them. It’s just as effective on his collectible books, making it a fantastic tool for anyone looking to preserve their paper treasures.

I use this product for dry cleaning comic books. The product miraculously picks up all kinds of dirt and debris without disturbing colors.

Works like a mixture of Play Doh and a big pink eraser. When my friend's house burned down, we saved the bulk of her soot-smeared music library with this stuff. You just lightly wipe in one direction and the soot residue lifts off the paper surface and sticks to the surface of the Absorene, like chalk sticks to a felt eraser. You then knead the residue into the Absorene and keep using it. I used a golf ball-sized wad of it until it turned the color of a new charcoal briquette. It continued to clean, but began to dry out and crumble a lot. The crumbles will stick to the paper, so I would then toss it and get a fresh lump. A little goes a long way. I probably cleaned two thousand pages of music with one tub of Absorene. It will not remove water/soot stains that are dried into the paper. It only removes the powdery residues on the surface of the paper, but it does a very good job of that. Good stuff.

I'm finding no difference between things before and after I'm "cleaning" with this product. I've watched videos on how to use it, and for all intents and purposes, I am using to currectly. Frankly see no "cleaning" of books or documents with this product. I'm getting a lot of "lint" from the Absorbene but no noticeable differences.

I love books, and frequently buy used. This has taken off some weird stains and finger marks. It also cleaned up some paper,( non vinyl) wallpaper from the 1960s that I'm fond of and not quite ready to replace. Nice thing to know about!

Are use this product and document restoration to remove stains. For that purpose, it works very well. Disappointing Lee, I have ordered this in less than three times, and every single time the container arrives with the lid sprung and a good portion of the product is dried out and unusable, once you remove that product and discard it then you get to the native product and it works very well. I can’t give high marks at all for shipping.

I have 30+ year old wallpaper which hasn't been cleaned in ages. We're getting ready to sell the house, and some sections which were behind furniture or above heating ducts are really dirty.I've tried dry-cleaning sponges, Play-Doh, natural sponge moistened with Dawn dishwashing detergent, artist's cleaning pads, etc. etc. Everything I've tried worked at least a little - but this product did by far the best job.Make a ball at least the size of a golf ball and knead it into the shape of a big eraser - then use it like you would an eraser on the surface of the wallpaper. As it picks up grime, knead it more to fold the dirt into the putty and keep going.As you can see in the picture, it basically just erases the grime -- which would not come off using other techniques. Some folks are saying it takes a lot of work to get good results, but I'm finding that it's relatively easy -- similar to erasing a pencil sketch on paper. Oh, the dark spots in the picture are screw holes. Can't erase them...Of course, your results may vary depending on the type of wallpaper you have and what sort of grime you're up against. I had professional cleaners tell me there was no way to clean the old wallpaper-- it would be too risky. They were wrong. : )