I’ve said before that I hate cleaning a gel plate. I decided to clean this grubber while I watched PMartist Studio on Tuesday.

I used hand sanitizer, baby oil, a lint roller and packing tape. I also used a lot of elbow grease. There was still scant smudges of paint on the plate.

During the stream, someone mentioned oil soap in relation to cleaning stencils. For some reason, that made me think of glycerin, and I have lots of glycerin soap melt from making melt and pour soaps.

I dug out a couple of cubes. I misted the plate with water, and started “skating” a cube around.

Using paper towels, the remaining paint tended to come up much more easily than with hand sanitizer or baby oil.

Yesterday, I placed a Walmart delivery order and included a bottle of liquid glycerin.

I tried a few drops on the plate. Again, using a paper towel, I was able to get the very last crumblies of paint off the plate. After it dried, I rubbed baby oil all over the plate and massaged it in. I’ll let it rest until tomorrow.

The lighter areas are just air bubbles under the plate. The plate is lying on a desk top made of solid surface counter top. This is what it looks like bare:

You can see that the gel plate is clean and almost transparent.