Why to use Baby Wipes to keep your Pieces Dust-free

 

Are you sick and tired of finding little bits of lint and dust in your light colored clay? Or accidentally mixing clay colors because your tools weren’t clean? I know from personal experience that the sight of a little imperfection like this on an otherwise perfect clay piece is extremely irritating.  There is a relatively easy way to prevent this from happening. You should use baby wipes to clean your work space and tools because it reduces dust in your pieces, keeps you tools clean, and keeps your colors from smearing.

One of the main ways dust gets into your clay is when you set it down on your work space which, let’s face it, is probably a little dusty. By simply wiping off you table with a baby wipe you eliminate one of the main reasons your clay gets dust in it. This is something really easy to do, but it makes a huge difference in the quality of your pieces.

Another thing you can use baby wipes for is to clean your tools. Some tools that I have found get particularly dirty with bits of clay are needle tools and blades. These can be wiped off with baby wipes so that the little bits of clay that stick to them don’t get transferred to other pieces of clay, again, making your pieces less perfect.

Another benefit of cleaning your blade after every time you use it is that it keeps your colors from smearing. When your colors smear it is a sign that you blades are not clean enough to do their job properly. An example of this is when you cut a layered cake, and your two colors get smeared. This can be fixed by wiping your blade with a baby wipe. Always be careful when you use a blade so you don’t cut yourself!

So, if you are having trouble keeping you clay clean, just remember that an easy way to help with this is to use baby wipes to clean your work space and tools to keep your pieces dust and smear free.