Absorene Book and Document Cleaner

Have an book or document that has gotten dirty? Absorene cleans without harming delicate paper!

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.

Works fine so far.

I bought this to clean marks off wallpaper. At first I thought it didn't work, but then I realized I just needed to persist! Some tips... 1) You need to start with a good-sized chunk—golf ball-sized, at least—so that you have something to grip while you wipe the wall. And definitely warm it up so you don't leave flakes on the wall. I started out using quarter-sized pieces and it just fell apart into flakes. 2) Put on some music and give the stain a song or two before you give up. This stuff is not Magic Eraser—the difference will be almost imperceptible at first. If I saw no change after 2 or 3 songs I knew this stuff was not going to get that particular stain. But there was only one I had to give up on. 3) If the stain has a slightly shiny surface, it may just be leftover wallpaper paste, which you can easily wipe off with a damp rag instead of putting in all the elbow grease with this stuff.

This product works well. I've been cleaning books and old comics with it and I'm glad I bought it!

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 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. : )

Used it a few times now. Very poor results so far. Could be user error or unreasonable expectations.