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August 1, 2015 By Alana 22 Comments

Easily Get Food Colouring Out Of Skin With This Hack

Get food colouring out of your skin or your kids’ skin easily with this simple hack.


It was the day after my daughter’s second birthday and it genuinely looked like penguin paraphernalia had been thrown up all over our home.

My aunt had just arrived in town that day and was en route to visit us. As I picked up remnants of the party with my hands and feet, it got so quiet.

“The kids are playing so nicely,” I thought. “This couldn’t be more perfect.”

Then, the silence became almost deafening. “Do I capitalize on the peacefulness and solider on? Or do I dare find out what they are up to?” My daughter chose to answer this question for me when she presented herself looking like a melting smurf. FOOD COLOURING. They had gotten into my food colouring. My son was considerate enough to choose yellow as his war paint, but my daughter, well my daughter looked like the photo above AFTER I tried bathing her. I took to Facebook and cried to begged asked my friends for any help they may have to get food colouring out of skin.

My two-year-old covered her skin with food colouring, this hack to get food colouring out of skin in no time at all. It's SUPER easy and takes no elbow grease!

Get Food Colouring Out of Skin With This Simple Hack

My friend Natasha saved the day and told me ANY foaming shaving cream would do the trick. I put it on their skin, let it sit briefly about 30 seconds or so, and then wiped it off. Voila! Clean.

If you craft with food colouring often like we do or bake with it, you may want this hack in your back pocket so you can get food colouring out of skin fast 🙂

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  1. mamabyfire says

    August 3, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Ha! So random! I never would have thought. Thanks for sharing. I’ll likely get to try it out this week with my son! 🙂

    Reply
    • Alana says

      August 4, 2015 at 12:29 pm

      It is random! But it practically saved my life!!!

      Reply
    • Chana says

      October 31, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      Saved my hands after figuring out with my third grade son which science experiment he wants to present to his class. Thank you so much!

      Reply
  2. mommyinsports says

    August 3, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Eye make up remover works for me too!

    Reply
    • Alana says

      August 3, 2015 at 3:40 pm

      Good to know !

      Reply
  3. workingmommagic says

    August 5, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    What a great tip! I had no idea… I will have to remember this one!

    Reply
  4. MforShort says

    August 12, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    Shaving cream is also good for taking off tree sap, too.

    Reply
    • Alana says

      August 12, 2015 at 7:14 pm

      Oh that’s good to know! Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  5. Jeanni says

    May 13, 2016 at 2:25 am

    II always use baking soda and soap. Instantly cleans it off!

    Reply
    • Alana says

      May 13, 2016 at 11:11 pm

      Good to know!

      Reply
    • avangaline says

      June 10, 2020 at 9:31 am

      this is the only thing that worked. without yiou, I would be going to a pool party being blue!

      Reply
      • Alana Pace says

        June 11, 2020 at 4:29 pm

        Haha. That’s great news!!! Glad it helped.

        Reply
  6. Christina says

    July 6, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    This worked really well for my son’s green colored chin…. clean shaving cream did the trick! Thanks!

    Reply
  7. Becky s. says

    February 21, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    The shaving cream is also great for cleaning up skin and hard surfaces after using any water-based paint, like finger or poster paints.

    Reply
    • Alana says

      February 25, 2018 at 8:53 am

      That’s really good to know! Thanks.

      Reply
  8. Deb says

    November 30, 2018 at 1:13 am

    Wow I’m amazed ! Never ever would of thought of that ! Thanks so much

    Reply
  9. Jessa says

    May 28, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Ironically.. I chose to put food dye into shave cream to occupy my toddler… So me looking for how to get off skin came across this … Lol I guess I will try some uncolored shave cream 🤞

    Reply
  10. Amy Ho says

    July 2, 2020 at 5:11 am

    This totally works! Forget about vinegar and baking soda. Thank you so much.

    Reply

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