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Oh no, poor Nightlight! Have you thought about sunfading her? Although I don't know what effect it would have on the acne cream areas . . .
Please note that if you use these creams on your body they are doing the same thing to you! I wont say too much there, but please please please, if you use these creams research more about them and what they are doing to your skin.
No no no no no no no no....this is something I would stand on a soap box and preach to people about. Never ever use acne cream on ponies. For ever reason mentioned here especially that damage can take years to turn up (and since have passed through the hands of a couple of other collectors and the knowledge of the use may have been forgotten.Too many horrendous stories of damage float around and its not something that can be fixed as you have bleached the colour out of the plastic.
My sister's ponies all went up in the attic some years ago. We had them down over the summer and her Daisy Dancer has clearly been a victim of this. Sister took it reasonably well, she isn't a perfectionist, but it was still sad.None of mine have shown this yet, and that may be because I bought most of mine pre-acne cream discovery, or from local carboot sales - or since the damage was discovered...but I don't rule it out as a possibility. We had Daisy Dancer a very long time, thinking about it, and she never showed any of these issues when she went up in the attic...so it's possible that people were using it even before it became discussed as a cure-all.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on March 09, 2016, 08:06:53 AMOh no, poor Nightlight! Have you thought about sunfading her? Although I don't know what effect it would have on the acne cream areas . . . [...]The black marker looks like it may be on the surface, I would try a very fine grit sand paper on her to see if you can take some of it off.... she actually looks like a really fun project pony.[...]
Moral of the story is that marks are a sign of a child's playing with and loving the toy, but acne cream and chemical damage is the result of collector vanity trying to make an imperfect childhood item into a perfect museum piece.Personally, I'm happier with the child's love, and I think the acne cream kinda indicates there's a line between cleaning up a battered pony and making it damaged in the long run for a short term appearance of pretty.
It does surprise me that there are still recommendations out there to use the acne cream on ponies.
It does surprise me that there are still recommendations out there to use the acne cream on ponies.I remember I bought some of the remove-zit when it came out to use on a doll's face- and it didn't really work, stank really bad and then the stuff got dry so I tossed it. Thank goodness I never tried it on ponies!I still have the doll I tried the cream on- it actually didn't fade her face (it has been probably over 8 years) but the brown spots are still there, lol
OMG- thank you I thought I happily forgot about the stink, I think I got one application on my tests. I bought a sample of the stuff from another collector and the SMELL. The other scary thing is it was advertised as formulated for dolls and toys. grrrr. so people using it thinking it's made for this, I can totally totally see.