Bond Peter S-petbond1 wrote:
>
> > That's because you're in Australia, mr expert. I was advising
> > someone in the US where I have heard straight eucalyptus oil
> > is hard to get. Shame, it's a *mega* organic solvent and smells
> > great. :o)
>
> Hmm.  How about aromatherapy oils?  Seems a likely candidate (i.e. stinks
> enough).  Somewhere around I've got some "lemon oil" (OK, *we* know its
> limonene) that gets used for cleaning sticky label residues off things.
>
> Just checked - http://www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/aroma2.html lists eucalyptus.
> Since we don't grow a lot of eucalyptus in the UK, perhaps the difficulty of
> getting it is similar to the US?
>
> Only caveat is to make sure it is the "essential oil" - otherwise it seems
> that it'll be diluted with anything handy.


Probably the alchohol they put in those fragrant oils??

Eucalyptus oil is amazing, organic, non-toxic (ie you can
eat it) but is is fantastic for dissolving adhesives,
specifically sticker residue.

That new organic stuff they get from oranges (peels?)
is amazing too, my friend owns a printery and they use
that now for cleaning printing ink off the rollers. The
solvent they used to use was quite toxic, his hair went
grey at 25 yrs old. Now his factory smells like oranges
when I go in. I just bought some hand cleaner that has
the same safe organic solvent in it (100% natural! on
the label), works great, but still leaves your hands
feeling "funny", must dry out the natural oils in your
skin. I thought it would be good to have a hand cleaner
where you didn't have to wash hands afterwards! But I
suppose it's better than the diesel or kero or whatever
they used to put in.
:o)
-Roman

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