How do you get pine sap off your hands?

Answer

Try one of these methods:

Use cotton balls and nail polish remover, then rub off with a paper towel.

Dampen a cloth with rubbing alcohol and rub the spots.

or

Rub the spots with vegetable shortening; then wipe off with paper towels or cloth and wash remaining grease off with soap and water. Easiest way is to put a tablespoonful or so of shortening on a scrap of waxed paper or foil and lay a couple paper towels beside it on a newspaper before starting to work with the evergreens; then, at end of job you can just run shortening on sticky spots on hands, wipe off and discard on paper; wash hands and discard paper in trash without getting sticky or very greasy hands on surfaces in home.

[Info from the Home Maintenance And Repair Database at the Michigan State University website]

Additionally, try washing hands with shampoo or Avon Skin so Soft.

Wash hands in WD-40. This is an oily solvent that penetrates and breaks up the pine resin. Then wash hands in Dawn to remove the oily feel. A little know fact is that WD40 was invented while chemist were looking for a cleansing agent that would penetrate small spaces and inadvertenly we were given one of the finest lubricants known. This oil can be used to clean any kind of glue from chewing gum to super glue from any washable surface.

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