Clorox Bleach for Label Removal?

Bleach is bleach . I've found dishwashing detergent in medium hot water to be very effective and the fumes are not as bad. Let the bottles soak a minimim of 1 hour, most labels fall off. (At least the water soluable variety) I've tried adding TSP to this mix in the past and really can't say it made any difference.

ST

I found a bottle of Clorox at Home Depot, something-cidal(I'll get the info when I get home tonight and post it). Its sold as a commercial product for restaurants and business rather than home use. I think this is what you must be looking for. I poured some on a sponge and it fell apart like no other sponge ever has with typical bleach. Like Steve said bleach is bleach, it comes down to how diluted it is, the stuff I got seems very much stronger than typical store bought bleach.

I soak bottles in hot water for about 15->30 minutes, scrape with a hard plastic scraper and remove any residue with Goo Gone Spray Gel

It's not a harsh solvent and it works.

Steve

The standard for household bleach is 5.25% sodium hypochlorite.

I don't really thing bleach would help remove labels. If you're lucky enough to find labels affixed with wet glue (an increasing rarity), try hot water with ammonia - many wet glues are ammonia-based; that's what we used to remove misplaced labels at a winery I used to work at. With the pressure sensitive labels in common use these days, you can use hot water to dissolve the paper but you're left using either brute force (scrubbing) or a solvent (like Goo-gone, as was suggested by another poster) to get rid of the glue. But I don't see what bleach would accomplish other than turning the label white ;^)

- Mark W.

Paul,

I'm with the masses on this. If they're paper/wet glue, I soak and scrape. Some fall off, and others take a little elbow grease.

For the sticker ones, I have used goof off, goo gone, WD-40, something. Then I still drop them in the water and clean them good. Of course if you use solvent, be absolutely sure not to get any inside the bottles.

The best bottles are free bottles, so I do a lot of soaking.

Greg

hot soaking in plain water will be almost enough to get the water soluble glue labels off...

for the rest, scrape paper off with knife or scraper, then spray the glue from he** residue with De-Solve-It - available at Walmart (that's where I get mine), and after a few minutes, the glue scrapes and washes pretty well off. Works for me.

Rick

I fill the bottle with hot water; stick a cork in it by hand; soak and remove label; rinse the outside of the bottle; uncork and drain bottle. Nothing inside the bottle but hot water.

Steve

Umm .. I don't know if this requires saying, but just in case.

Whatever you do, d>> A year or so ago, someone posted to this group that they found a certain