Surfactant leaching
Our bathrooms, both of them, have these amber drips or streaks down the walls. You can wipe them away, but they come back after a while, and they build up over time. Everyone always said it was nicotine stains, but I never believed them. Now I know better. It turns out there's water soluble stuff in the paint, and the warm moist air in the
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Oh wow, thank you for sharing that! I have long been wondering what caused my bright yellow bathroom walls to ooze that sticky amber goo - I had kind of assumed it was a natural consequence of choosing a very bold pigment for a very humid environment. But now I feel oddly vindicated knowing it would have leached surfactant regardless of my color preference.
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