Is there any way to remove this stain from my dresser?

[Dee67]

I had some rubbing alcohol in a plastic bowl on top of my dresser soaking something... Phone rang, had to run out - one thing leads to another and I get home a few hours later to find the bowl wilted, and a pool of alcohol drying on my wooden dresser.

It seems the alcohol reacted with the finish and there's this white stain that I haven't been able to remove to any degree of success. I scratched it with my fingernail and it does come off by scratching it, but I don't really want to start scraping with a razor blade or trying to lightly sand it off for fear I'll make the top even worse.

Does anyone know of a way to remove this white stain/mark?

Thanks

 

[N8Magic]

Let it dry out for a few hours. My pine kitchen table does the same thing when a liquid has been exposed to it for a while. The stain goes away after a while.

BUT, since alcohol is a solvent of sorts, it may have dissolved some of the finish the table. You may have to sand it down and do the whole top.

 

[Luden]

scrap it off, and putty&stain if needed.

 

[Cattlegod]

lol, misread the title as satan, i was like wtf.

 

[purplehayes]

What type of finish is on the dresser?

And, BTW, I thought the title read "Is there any way to remove this stain from my dress"?

I was going to leave a Lewinski-ish remark, but I'll have to wait until another and and another thread.

PH

 

[HombrePequeno]

How'd you get a white stain on your dresser? :Q

 

[Mday]

you may have to refinish the dresser.....

if it's an antique, you may wanna get a restorer to do it.

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if the dresser was waxed, you may just have to rewax it. and buff that "stain" out

 

[gotsmack]

the finish has been stripped from that spot. You will have to sand down the entire area and refinish it.