Magnetic Photo Album Deterioration

We often hear clients complain they can’t remove their photos from those old inexpensive magnetic photo albums. Those are the ones with the pre-glued pages that you just stick the photos in and slide the plastic sleeve over the outside. While those may seem fast and easy, over many years the glue will have degraded and fused the back of the photo to the photo album page itself. Trying to remove it guarantees ripping your photo.

Several years ago there was a product on the market, Un-Du, that I couldn’t stop raving about. It had it’s own website (http://un-du.com/) and could be found in office supply stores, craft stores and scrap-booking stores. Somehow over the past few years, the company was bought out and the product disappeared.

I was excited the other day to find the product once again available on the internet. Their website looks like it will have the ability to purchase there sometime this summer but another website, Aspen Shops, has Un-Du available for purchase. I was thrilled to see this amazing product back as it is the one thing that really addresses the specific issue of photos stuck in magnetic photo albums.

Invented by the guy who brought us the party game Twister, this stuff truly rocks at removing old adhesives, photo squares, stickers and anything else that is stuck to something else. We have successfully removed newspaper articles rubber cemented to paper over 70 years ago. The cool thing about un-du is that you can remove stickers and other adhesive based products and then reuse them. The solution doesn’t remove the adhesive, it merely loosens it’s hold on whatever is stuck to it. Then when the product dries out, the sticker can be used on something else.