Well, living in a damp local options village in rural Alaska ( which means I can have alcohol, just can't buy it here), I save my alcohol for drinking. I made a spray using corn starch since the local store doesn't carry any kind of spray starch. It works well enough. Though the bottom of my iron, which is stainless is getting a residue on it. I think i'll use the Mr. Clean eraser on it per another post.