If you're not looking to actually strip layers from the surface of a painting, but just clean up an old painting that has collected dust or soot or bad karma, or prepare a recently-dried painting for a final coat of varnish, I recommend a 3M product, Scotch-Brite(TM) High Performance Cloth. It's chemical free, virtually lint-free, and cleans by operation of scratch-free microfiber technology. Because it's the structure of the fiber that cleans, and not any added solvent or cleaner, it can be repeatedly laundered and continues to perform. Many of you are probably already using it for its "intended" purposes, which include lens and computer screen clean-up, as well as polishing myriad household and commercial surfaces. If you haven't seen or tried it, just look: it's everywhere-- department, drug, DIY stores and elsewhere. Some info can be seen at
www.3M.com/highperformancecloth. In the interest of full disclosure, yes, I do happen to own some 3M stock. But of course that's not my point.
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