By sunny 
Alcohol is a common cleaning and sanitising item in many households, being affordable and versatile. However, not all items are suitable for cleaning with alcohol. Some items can be severely damaged once they come into contact with alcohol, especially expensive items that tend to be more sensitive to alcohol. In this issue, we will list 11 kinds of items that can not be cleaned with alcohol, once they come into contact with alcohol may be damaged and can not be repaired, home life must pay more attention.
leather sofa
Leather sofas require regular maintenance and must use specialised maintenance agents. However, even with regular maintenance, some stubborn stains can be difficult to remove. At this point, some people may come up with some ‘strange tricks’, such as using alcohol to wipe.
But this can often lead to serious consequences. Alcohol can completely destroy the outermost layer of the leather of the sofa, leaving mottled spots. Some netizens shared their own experience: just using a wet paper towel with alcohol to wipe the sofa, the sofa was ruined, and the scratches stayed there. In the end, they had to call a professional to fix it, which cost them hundreds of dollars.
Once this happens, there is almost no better way than to use a similarly coloured patching cream to make up the colour. Although the texture of leather sofas, but very ‘delicate’, once damaged or broken, often can not be repaired.
Maintenance advice: It is best to follow the official maintenance tips and guidelines for leather sofas, or consult official customer service before doing so. If possible, it is best to ask a professional to carry out maintenance, in order to avoid unnecessary damage, resulting in no package after-sales or product damage.
Skin film cabinet
The skin film cabinet is a design that many homeowners both love and worry about. It has a great texture, but the downside is that it is not resistant to stains and tends to leave handprints. Skin film is actually a film used to improve texture and is made from polyvinyl chloride.
If you use alcohol to wipe the skin-sensitive door, it will leave an oily film reflection like car glass, forming a clear colour contrast with the rest of the room, which is even more unsightly than leaving handprints. A netizen @ Xiaomang shared her experience: after using alcohol to clean the skin-sensitive door, she regretted it.
Cleaning advice: skin film cabinet door is best to use a special cleaning agent to wipe, do not use alcohol. In addition, it is not recommended to use nano sponge to wipe, because its texture is softer, with a certain polishing effect, the same will damage the skin-sensitive door, resulting in cabinet door mottling and scratches.
Computer screen
Computer screen has a layer of glare layer, and alcohol as a good performance of organic solvents, can dissolve or destroy this layer of glare layer, resulting in a decrease in the display effect of the screen, and even blurred phenomenon.
Home laptop and desktop screens should be extra careful when wiping. In addition to alcohol, wet wipes containing alcohol should also be avoided to avoid damage to the screen.
In addition, the casing of the computer also needs attention. Their casing is either a composite of plastic and metal, or it is coated with a coating or skin film. Whichever material reacts with alcohol, it can cause the casing to discolour and become rough.
Solid wood furniture
Some netizens will try to use alcohol to clean solid wood furniture, but this not infrequently leads to undesirable consequences. For example, a netizen, @RageHome, shared his experience that a solid wood table turned white with a huge colour gap after being wiped with alcohol by his mother and could not be restored to its original appearance.
This is actually not surprising. Most of the surface of solid wood furniture is coated with oil wax or varnish, and alcohol will destroy this protective film, resulting in the wood absorbing moisture out of balance, mottled, dry cracked or grey phenomenon.
Correct treatment: use a soft wet cloth to wipe, or directly painted oil wax or varnish to cover the damaged part.
Mobile phone lens
Because alcohol is volatile and does not leave water stains on the lens after evaporation, many people like to use alcohol to wipe the mobile phone lens. However, what many people don’t realise is that the solubility of alcohol oxidises the coating on the lens, causing it to become blurred.
A netizen @ Qingcha said that he just got a new mobile phone, after using alcohol to wipe the lens, a wipe is ruined. The coating on the lens was dissolved (oxidised) by the alcohol, causing the photos to become blurry. In the end, he had to replace the lens piece, the new mobile phone just turned into a repair machine.
Correct treatment: The cleaning of mobile phone lenses is recommended to use lens paper or eyeglasses cloth with a special cleaning agent. Although alcohol is good, but its solubility is very strong, easy to lead to coating damage.
Purses/leather shoes
Wiping leather bags with alcohol or wet paper towels carrying alcohol is also a regular operation of many users, after all, a wipe is dry, very convenient. However, the purse can not withstand the alcohol ‘abuse’.
A netizen @ Jagged Bear shared his own experience: accidentally sprayed alcohol to the top of the purse, the result is that the purse became a white piece, like a sun spot.
Leather shoes also can not use alcohol wipe, otherwise there will be a white flowery mass, look particularly bad. A netizen @ Na’er accidentally alcohol to the top of the leather shoes, the result of leather shoes into a mottled look. She asked the shoe repair master after learning that black leather shoes can be repaired, but such a colour can not be repaired.
Wooden floors
Some people believe that when washing wooden floors into the alcohol can make it dry faster, and to avoid the return of moisture. However, this ‘trick’ is actually a pitfall, because alcohol will ‘corrode’ the wooden floor.
A netizen @ Pikachu shared his own experience: when he went to bed at night and sprayed the wooden floor with alcohol, he woke up the next day and found that the floor had turned white, just like latex paint. The same problem happened to other homeowners, who used alcohol to mop the floor after the result of the wooden floor turned white in large areas.
Correct treatment: wooden floor belongs to the more ‘delicate’ materials, in the use of the process must pay attention to maintenance. Choose a professional maintenance agent or ask a professional to carry out maintenance is a better choice.
Car interiors
Car interiors have many plastic and leather products in addition to fabric. In particular, many car owners often disinfect the handle area and use alcohol for disinfection purposes. However, if the surface of the interior has a film or coating, after contact with alcohol will inevitably appear to varying degrees of dissolution of the surface coating and the protective layer of the phenomenon, resulting in the destruction of the original texture, it looks even older.
A netizen @ Sun Long said, their new car in order to buy a new car in order to go to the odour and keep clean and use alcohol to wipe, the result of the new car button on the paint off. Such cases are particularly common, especially among online car owners who also need to pay attention to the safety of their cars when disinfecting them.
In addition to the plastic will be blistering and bulging, many of the leather materials of the car interior will also be corroded when encountering alcohol. A netizen shared his own experience: the window armrest is a little dirty, take the alcohol wipe, the results did not expect to become that way, the whole person is stunned!
Security doors
All along, the security door has given people the impression of durable, durable, always let people feel full of security. However, this is not the case in real life. Common alcohol can destroy its surface coating.
A netizen @ Antarctic Silver in the mask period of disinfection of the door handle, accidentally sprayed alcohol to the top of the door surface, the result of the entry door is corroded, too ugly. In the end, he used windex to get rid of the traces.
The same thing happened to netizen @tudonie’s house. In order to prevent the cat from jumping the door handle to open the door, she suddenly just sprayed the door handle with alcohol, and as a result, she got up in the middle of the night and found that the door had become that way.
Acrylic
Acrylic is a type of plexiglass that has excellent processing and transparency properties, and is widely used in homes. However, its only drawback is not resistant to dirt, after touching the hand is easy to leave handprints, rag wipe will leave water stains and lint.
In order to avoid the problem of leaving water stains after such rubbing, many homeowners have the whim to use alcohol to wipe acrylic products. However, this often leads to acrylic corrosion. A netizen @MuMu shared his experience: the door of the kennel was a bit dirty, and after spraying it with alcohol it ended up cracking.
The same thing also happened in the netizen @ Fifi home. There was a smell of chemicals on the acrylic calendar, so she wiped the back with alcohol. The result of the reverse look has been cracked into that way.
glasses
It’s common sense to wipe your glasses when they’re dirty. There is toilet paper on hand to use toilet paper to wipe; no toilet paper on the use of alcohol cotton pads to wipe. There are even many netizens habitually use alcohol wipe glasses, because they think that this wipe clean will not leave water stains, and the ability to remove dirt than water.
However, this method is not desirable. It not only has a general stain removal effect, but also damages the lenses. Lenses are covered with a layer of transparency-enhancing, UV-protective film, and alcohol, as a good organic solvent, will dissolve these films, leading to lens damage.
A netizen @DuMi shared his own experience: after using alcohol to wipe the lenses with cotton pads, the first time I felt nothing; but the second time I wiped them, I could no longer wipe them clean. After going to the optician’s shop to deal with it, I realised that the alcohol corroded the film layer on the lens, causing the lens to turn into a flower is almost inevitable.
In short, there are many other items that cannot be cleaned with alcohol. Although alcohol brings us convenience, but at the same time may also bring some harm. It is very important to use alcohol correctly in daily life, especially to pay attention to the safety hazards it may bring. Especially families with children must be extra careful when using alcohol. For those items that cannot be cleaned with alcohol, we must choose the correct cleaning method and maintenance method to extend their service life and maintain their good appearance and performance.