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Bar keepers friend for cushion stains?

jetboater4life

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We started using bar keepers friend a while back on our stainless cookware and on a whim I decided to look up it's main ingredient oxalic acid.

I found this statement
"Off label uses of Bar Keepers Friend include removing the brown or yellow stains caused by Avobenzone containing sunscreen.[7]"

I have some seat cushion stains I am going to try this on in the spring when I uncover and dust every thing off.

That's it for now. I am going back into hibernation.
 

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This is brilliant! I'm a pro at cleaning just about everything but I've yet to find something to pull those sunscreen lotion splotches out where the wife sits. I'm going to try this!
 

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We have this product but I have not tried it on the cushions.
 

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Looking forward to an update on this ...
 

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I didn't have sunscreen stains but I made a paste using barkeepers friend and then used a power drill, scrub brush attachment posted in another thread. Made my seats clean up real nice. I also used it on some of the plastic surround that i have on my older style seats
 

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I tried some hand scrubbing on the orange stain that is from the seat vinyl coming in contact with the fiberglass and didn't see any results. Maybe I need to scrub harder.
 

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I would be careful with the newer boat seat cushions. The vinyl and its coating in my 2008 SX-230 could hold up to the abrasives in the Barkeepers, but my 2013 242LS vinyl has a thin coat for color that is easily removed with scrubbing with an abrasive. I'd mix up a slurry of the Barkeepers and dab it on the spot (no rubbing) to see if this Oxalic Acid can work some off-label magic on the Avobenzone stain.
 
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