Very good point. The baking shelf is now the “coffeemaker, dehydrator and Christmas garland shelf”. I have to do a bit of shuffling around to figure out where to put the _____ extracts and muffin tin liners and baking chocolate.
I thought of that after the “moisturizer” and “alcohol” suggestions. While most wipes are alcohol free, they must have similar solvents in them. Unfortunately, they didn’t help. (Huggies brand, even.) However, from a prior incident, I can report that they’re *fantastic *for getting blue marker out of a sage green microfiber suede couch!
Shaving cream is another product with similar solvents which is often good for getting marker and paint stains off small children and furniture. I don’t know that my mother has tried it on food coloring stains. She’s a Mom’s Day Out teacher/babysitter. They buy cheap shaving cream in bulk, because it’s fun for the kids to play with, and does marvelous things as far as removing paint, etc. from the table and skin.
This is too late to be really helpful, but I’ll mention it for future reference.
I dabble in fiber dyeing. The most recent time I turned my hands blue, the absolute best color remover was a bar of Fels Naptha soap. (should be in the laundry area of the grocery store, but some places chuck it in with the bar soaps) It’s fairly non-toxic; I would use it on a kid’s hands, but not their tongue. It was better than: dish soap, nail polish remover, baking soda, and lava soap. (the way of learning is experimentation!)
Fels Naptha is my go-to stain remover for almost all laundry stains - grass, grease, marinara sauce, red wine, unidentified gunge, and blood (after treating fresh blood stains with peroxide first). And a bar lasts us two years. (I have no affiliation with whoever makes it.)