Rub Out Water Rings

Stop worrying over water rings -- these fixes will make your tables look terrific.

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Ashes
Use cigar and or cigarette ashes to remove those white rings left on your wooden furniture by wet glasses or hot cups. Mix the ashes with a few drops of water to make a paste, and rub lightly over the mark to remove it. Then shine it with your favorite furniture polish.
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Baking Soda
Get those white marks -- caused by hot cups or sweating glasses -- off your coffee table or other wooden furniture by making a paste of 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 teaspoon water. Gently rub the spot in a circular motion until it disappears. Remember not to use too much water.
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Car Wax
Someone forgot to use a coaster and now there's an ugly white ring on the dining room table. When your regular furniture polish doesn't work, try using a dab of car wax. Trace the ring with your finger to apply the wax. Let it dry and buff with a soft cloth.
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Petroleum Jelly
Your most recent party left lots of watermark rings on your wood furniture. To make them disappear, apply petroleum jelly and let it sit overnight. In the morning, wipe the watermark away with the jelly.
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Salt
Watermarks left from glasses or bottles on a wood table really stand out. Make them disappear by mixing 1 teaspoon salt with a few drops of water to form a paste. Gently rub the paste onto the ring with a soft cloth or sponge and work it over the spot until it's gone. Restore the luster of your wood with furniture polish.
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Toothpaste
You leave coasters around. But some people just won't use them. To get rid of those telltale watermark rings left by sweating beverages, gently rub some non-gel toothpaste on the wood with a soft cloth. Then wipe it off with a damp cloth and let it dry before applying furniture polish.
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Vinegar
To remove white rings left by wet glasses on wood furniture, mix equal parts vinegar and olive oil and apply it with a soft cloth while moving with the wood grain. Use another clean, soft cloth to shine it up. To get white water rings off leather furniture, dab them with a sponge soaked in full-strength white vinegar.
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Tried the toothpaste trick on a white drinks ring on my wooden fireplace and it worked brilliantly!!! Would highly recommend this tip to anybody.

By Elaine from Staffordshire, on 08/22/2009

heat put the mark in heat takes it out.

By h summers ret french polisher, on 08/09/2009

Check out my blog on removing white rings, heat stains and water spots off your furniture, it compliments this article and gives other good ways to go about getting rid of those wretched stains! http://www.raidz.net/blog/how-remove-white-rings-and-water-spots-your-furniture Good Luck!

By raidz, on 11/20/2008

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