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How to Remove Pine Sap from Your Hands

Submitted by Boter

Type(s): Tip
Tags: Pine+Sap hand+sanitizer

$1 (US, estimated) It’s the holiday season and between steam punking your wreath and putting homemade solar LED lights on your tree, there is a fair chance that at some point you will have sticky, messy, nasty pine sap on your hands. I got this from the guy that sold me my tree last year and it works great: Alcohol Gel Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer.

Pour a couple of squirts into your hands and rub till the sap is gone, but then rinse your hands in water.

If you don’t rinse your hands while the gel is still wet the diluted sap will leave a sticky residue.

Free for use in most super market meat departments. $.99 for a small bottle at your local mega-mart

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Pine Sap Removal
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In the old country some 50 years ago, we also used gasoline. We kept a small bottle for sap removal. Hands might smell for a while, though.
Posted by Dox on December 22, 2007 at 16:15:06 Pacific Time

A simpler alternative
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My grandmother taught me the best sap-removal tool when I was but a wee lad: butter. Just rub it on the sap and watch it dissolve. You'll then need to wash the butter off with soap and water. This works on skin, clothes, even cars.

Margarine works too, but why would you have it around when you could have butter?
Posted by ben.harris on December 20, 2007 at 20:08:10 Pacific Time