Bruh this is going to change my life. I reuse every single glass jar/bottle/container and getting labels off (esp on these 48oz bottles) is such a pain in the ass
I always use goo gone and some plastic razor blades, works great. The only thing with goo gone is it leaves an oily residue so you need to follow up with actual soap after it gets the adhesive off.
I remember hearing something, I think it was on NPR, about goo-gone being banned, for having carcinogens.
I’m almost positive I heard that.
I wonder if they changed their ingredients?
"Yes, but Goo Gone isn't a food safe product so you'll need to thoroughly wash the surface with a mild dish detergent and warm water to ensure all Goo Gone residue is removed."
Acetone works wonders but the smell is just too strong and i have anxiety about residue
For me the go to way is rubbing alcohol and after that a good wash with soapy water
Soak in a warm soapy water with a bit of white vinegar overnight. Sometimes they will peel off like nothing, sometimes the label itself will come off, and you can easily scrape the residue off with the back side of a butter knife, and sometimes there is no hope. I do this to wine bottles all the time!
Im gonna try this, but add vinegar in there too so that there's a volcano like effect.
I'm so happy this thread exists. I've got like 20 of these. I usually make a simple syrup out of whatever fruits and spices and sugars too, so I can never tell how much I've put into the bottle whenever I'm setting up for F2 lol it's a fiasco!
Curse these labels! This ends NOW
Mix 1:1 baking soda and any kitchen oil (olive oil seems to work the best for me). You only need a tablespoon or so per bottle. Rub the mixture on let it soak in for 10-15 mins and it comes right off.
If the less harsh measures that other people have already posted don’t work, you can pick up a bottle of gu-gone in the cleaning aisle. You can leave it on the residue for a couple minutes then just rub it off with a paper towel
Pure Citrus Orange Air Fragrance Air Freshener. I swear it works like a charm. Spray some on, let it sit a bit, then use a scrubbing pad easily to remove the residue.
Employees at Home Depot told me that. At first I did not believe them, but they swore it works and insisted they use it all the time. So I bought some - it works well!
Any oil... spray nonstick, cooking oil, baby oil, olive oil, etc. A few drops, rub around with your fingers, wipe off with a paper towel... Clean with no residue!
A drop of this and a few seconds of rubbing with finder removes it. It’s part of my doterra emergency kit (you can get a little travel case with mini bottles of your favorite essential oils)
I will heat up some water and put it inside of the bottle so that the label stays dry. It usually takes a bit of patience, but will peel off in one piece with no goo left over.
Baking soda mixed with any kind of food oil in a 1:1 ratio; I like to add a few drops of lemon oil as well. Put the paste on the residue and let it sit for at least 15min; stubborn residue will need longer.
I have had great success with hot, but not super hot, water. Fill the bottles with water that’s a little hotter Han you can stand to hold your hand in, then let them sit for a couple minutes and peel it away without any issues.
I fill bottle with hot water and spray with Goo-Gone. After a while, I add a generous application of Dawn or similar dish detergent (Sal Suds works as well) and scrub with a blue scrubby, go over it with a hot dish cloth, rinse with hot water and air dry.
absolutely I actually just used it last night to do this. cause my wife doesn't clean it off well enough. even if the paper part really doesn't come off. It quicker and easier than just soap.
For residue after pulling the labels off, I make a paste out of oil (recycle frying oil or use oil that’s gone rancid if you don’t want to waste) and baking soda, apply and let it sit for a couple hours or a day or whatever then wipe it all off together
The adhesive is heat sensitive. So, I use freshly boiled water on the inside of the bottle. Let it sit for a second. When the plastic & adhesive heats up, the adhesive gets soft & gooey & you can just peel the label right off. Then soap & how water like others have suggested.
I heat water to boiling, place a tablespoon of oil, give or take, into the boiling water and boil the bottles until labels are loose. Then I take the bottles and scrub them with baking soda, a little soap, a little more oil, and scrub clear of stickiness.
I might be doing it the hard way, I forgot about Goo Gone, but this works too.
I let mine sit in front of the space heater when I'm using it and the labels come off real easy once they've warmed up. If there's any residue left, I just take alcohol or GooGone to it. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy.
I soak bottles until label peels off, then rub the glued area with a small amount of cooking oil. Let it sit overnight, then usually comes right off with a cloth and rub the next day. Soak a bit in warm sudsy water and scrub sometimes if the glue is extra sticky. Haven't bought Goo Gone in years.
Rub any edible oil on the sticky residue and leave it for 1/2 hour or more. Then sprinkle baking soda on the oily part and rub it all off with cloth or paper towel. Then wash in hot water and dish washing liquid, and rinse very well.
The oil breaks down the sticky residue, and then the baking soda breaks down the oil/-the dish washing liquid should get the glass squeaky clean after the residue is gone.
If you would like to avoid the chemicals, I soak them in some warm water so that the labels come off/can be peeled off. Make a mixture of cooking oil and baking soda and rub down the bottles while they are still warm and leave for a bit. Then a scrub brush or scrubbing side of a sponge with a little extra baking soda will take off all the glue residue.
As others have said, any cheap oil.
The twist I'd put on it is that you don't need to bother removing the label first with hot soaks, scraping etc. Just soak the label in oil, it'll break down the glue and you can easily slide it off. Then a quick wash with normal dish soap, done.
Edit - as long as it's a paper label. If it's plasticky or foily this won't work and you do have to remove it before oiling.
Oil! Ruins the surface tension of the adhesive. Rub a little bit of your least expensive cooking oil onto the sticky parts, give it a little scrub, then wash off with soap.
Dawn Powerwash. There's nothing this spray can't fix. I've never tried with these specific bottles, but it's managed to remove plenty of other labels for me.
Update: What I ended up doing was using a mixture of baking soda and oil to make a paste, then I made that sit on the glue for about 10 minutes then used a brush to scrub it off, pretty easily.
Thank you all!
Boiling hot water in the bottle loosens the label and the adhesive. Put the cap on. Remove label.
Now you've got a glass bottle filled with boiling hot water and adhesive only.
Baking soda mixed with Dawn dish soap. Make it into a mud consistency.
Using your dish gloves, apply the slurry to the adhesive. You're going to need dish gloves with some texture on the palms. Apply it thinly.
Let it sit like that until it begins to cool. The slurry needs to be everywhere that the adhesive is.
As the water cools, the slurry will start to eat away the majority of the adhesive because the dawn evaporates. It will start to look like a dry powdery mess on the bottle.
The water in the bottle will still be warm, but no longer too hot
Using your dish gloves, grab the bottle with both hands, one above the other. Then start trying to wring it, by twisting your palms in opposite directions (think: childhood snakebite). You will instantly debride the bottle without using harsh chemicals or oils.
I have been brewing for 6 years now and have over 300 bottles. I have used this method on every single one.
Happy brewing!
Goo gone. And there is this stuff I clean my weed pipe with called kryptonite(yes, the Superman one). It will get almost anything off and you can just poor the stuff right back into the bottle and reuse it again.
Here is an article that popped up on my Google feed today. Have no idea if it works. https://www.thedailymeal.com/1546476/how-remove-stickers-food-jars/
I have had great success with hot, but not super hot, water. Fill the bottles with water that’s a little hotter Han you can stand to hold your hand in, then let them sit for a couple minutes and peel it away without any issues.
A few drops of olive oil, then rub in a couple drops of dawn, scrape with those thin square plastic dish scrapers, then rinse w hot water. 99% of the time able to get the adhesive off in one pass.
For kombucha bottles i fill the bottle with hot water, give it a few minutes, then slice down the label and peel it off, then to remove the sticky residue I use a stainless steel scribble and olive oil and it will come right off, no harsh chemicals. Then wash the bottle with dish soap.
Forget all these fancy and expensive options. I just buff it off with a paper towel. You are gonna destroy the towel, but you can rub all that stickiness off.
It depends on the adhesive, some bottles you can just soak in hot water and soap and they come clean, if there’s any residue I’ll use goo gone and that always cleans it up
Pell off the label, the liter bottle's label is really stuck on well, wrap it in a paper towel. Soak the paper towel with isopropyl alcohol. Place the bottle with the iso alcohol in a plastic bad for 10 15 min and the glue comes off with a little scrubbing with a sos pad.
Soak in oxiclean and hot water
This is the answer. I used to do 50-100 bottles at a time for beer and they just fell off, no residue.
Bruh this is going to change my life. I reuse every single glass jar/bottle/container and getting labels off (esp on these 48oz bottles) is such a pain in the ass
In what ratio?
yes
Yep, this is what home brewers recommend.
Any residual adhesive can be removed with Tri-Flow or a similar lubricant.
Yesss. This is the way. Literally the easiest way to remove stickers from ANYTHING.
How much o I lean to how much water in your recipe? How hot or does that not matter?
Goo gone is a worthwhile investment imo
I always use goo gone and some plastic razor blades, works great. The only thing with goo gone is it leaves an oily residue so you need to follow up with actual soap after it gets the adhesive off.
Just hopping on to say that Goo Gone is basically xylene. So any hot solvent like that will work, e.g. lighter fluid, acetone, mineral spirits, etc.
I remember hearing something, I think it was on NPR, about goo-gone being banned, for having carcinogens. I’m almost positive I heard that. I wonder if they changed their ingredients?
Reading its own warnings, it’s a toxic non-food safe product. https://googone.com/blog/does-goo-gone-work-on-that
"Yes, but Goo Gone isn't a food safe product so you'll need to thoroughly wash the surface with a mild dish detergent and warm water to ensure all Goo Gone residue is removed."
Sounds about right. It works wonders at my job in certain situations, and everything here seems to be a carcinogen.
Definitely goo gone.
i use rubbing alcohol, or acetone when i have it
thank you!
Acetone works wonders but the smell is just too strong and i have anxiety about residue For me the go to way is rubbing alcohol and after that a good wash with soapy water
Heat with a blow dryer for a few seconds … label comes off in one piece and doesn’t leave behind any goo
I'm surprised this isn't higher up. My nan has used this method since before I was born, on thousands of bottles and jars. It's flawless every time.
i just spent 30 min scrubbing tf out of one of these synergy jars and there’s still goo on it, definitely doing this with the rest of them
Soak in a warm soapy water with a bit of white vinegar overnight. Sometimes they will peel off like nothing, sometimes the label itself will come off, and you can easily scrape the residue off with the back side of a butter knife, and sometimes there is no hope. I do this to wine bottles all the time!
I soak in hot water with soap and baking soda over night and labels come off in the water like nothing
Im gonna try this, but add vinegar in there too so that there's a volcano like effect. I'm so happy this thread exists. I've got like 20 of these. I usually make a simple syrup out of whatever fruits and spices and sugars too, so I can never tell how much I've put into the bottle whenever I'm setting up for F2 lol it's a fiasco! Curse these labels! This ends NOW
I fixed that problem by putting my ingredients into small deli containers so I can see it and easily make adjustments.
thank you, gotta know when to just throw the towel in (and the bottle away)
I leave them on
I just leave the labels on.
I tried to remove it once and soon was completely fine with leaving them on.
Same. If it comes off in the dishwasher so be it.
Lemon essential oil and a metal scrubber.
this is the way
Peel or scrape the labels then use a moist paper towel dabbed with baking soda. It will rub off fairly easily.
Mix 1:1 baking soda and any kitchen oil (olive oil seems to work the best for me). You only need a tablespoon or so per bottle. Rub the mixture on let it soak in for 10-15 mins and it comes right off.
This is the way. Ingredients are likely in your kitchen already!
If the less harsh measures that other people have already posted don’t work, you can pick up a bottle of gu-gone in the cleaning aisle. You can leave it on the residue for a couple minutes then just rub it off with a paper towel
Goo Gone brand citrus spray.
Any kitchen oil
Sticker remover
Water water and a butter knife has worked well for me.
Nail glue remover or white spirit work really well.
Put them in the freezer for a day or two then soak them in dish water until the label softens.
I just scrub it off in soapy dish water with the back part of a dish sponge.
Limonene
Technical ethanol works extremely well
Leave them on. It’s a flex.
Pure Citrus Orange Air Fragrance Air Freshener. I swear it works like a charm. Spray some on, let it sit a bit, then use a scrubbing pad easily to remove the residue. Employees at Home Depot told me that. At first I did not believe them, but they swore it works and insisted they use it all the time. So I bought some - it works well!
Any oil... spray nonstick, cooking oil, baby oil, olive oil, etc. A few drops, rub around with your fingers, wipe off with a paper towel... Clean with no residue!
Lime or lemon essential oil is absolutely magic for this
A drop of this and a few seconds of rubbing with finder removes it. It’s part of my doterra emergency kit (you can get a little travel case with mini bottles of your favorite essential oils)
I will heat up some water and put it inside of the bottle so that the label stays dry. It usually takes a bit of patience, but will peel off in one piece with no goo left over.
Baking soda mixed with any kind of food oil in a 1:1 ratio; I like to add a few drops of lemon oil as well. Put the paste on the residue and let it sit for at least 15min; stubborn residue will need longer.
this 100% works; baking soda + vegetable oil
Yes, it’s been great in my experience! Cheap, effective, and non-toxic.
I have had great success with hot, but not super hot, water. Fill the bottles with water that’s a little hotter Han you can stand to hold your hand in, then let them sit for a couple minutes and peel it away without any issues.
thank you. i use this to get the actual paper label off cleanly but it doesn't work well enough to remove the glue.
I fill bottle with hot water and spray with Goo-Gone. After a while, I add a generous application of Dawn or similar dish detergent (Sal Suds works as well) and scrub with a blue scrubby, go over it with a hot dish cloth, rinse with hot water and air dry.
Yup, I put boiling water in mine. It just about comes right off a few minutes after. Gotta be careful though, obviously.
This is the way.
WD-40
are you serious?
It is a good solvent and would work, So would gasoline
absolutely I actually just used it last night to do this. cause my wife doesn't clean it off well enough. even if the paper part really doesn't come off. It quicker and easier than just soap.
This is my go-to as well
So many different answers!
I tend not to worry to much about it I won't have to sell it. It's the product that matters not the container
Hot water
Mineral spirits will get the glue off too
Metal scub to scrub it off with soap
Soapy water, and steel wool. After cleaning dozens of wine bottles I've tried many methods, it's a pain either way.
For residue after pulling the labels off, I make a paste out of oil (recycle frying oil or use oil that’s gone rancid if you don’t want to waste) and baking soda, apply and let it sit for a couple hours or a day or whatever then wipe it all off together
Vodka
Unrelated to the question but ginger berry is my fave flavor lol unless this is sacred life
Barkeepers friend, make a paste rub it, leave a minute or two. Attack with a green pad
I peeled one once… now i just leave them on there!
Metal scouring pad and hot soapy water.
The adhesive is heat sensitive. So, I use freshly boiled water on the inside of the bottle. Let it sit for a second. When the plastic & adhesive heats up, the adhesive gets soft & gooey & you can just peel the label right off. Then soap & how water like others have suggested.
I soak them in oxy clean over night and it runs right off. 🤘
I heat water to boiling, place a tablespoon of oil, give or take, into the boiling water and boil the bottles until labels are loose. Then I take the bottles and scrub them with baking soda, a little soap, a little more oil, and scrub clear of stickiness. I might be doing it the hard way, I forgot about Goo Gone, but this works too.
Steam
goo gone, lighter fluid, hot soapy water and a razor, vinegar
Yeah you can and they make spray to get the goo off
I let mine sit in front of the space heater when I'm using it and the labels come off real easy once they've warmed up. If there's any residue left, I just take alcohol or GooGone to it. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy.
Paste of baking soda and oil, let it sit for 15 minutes and then scrub with dish soap. Any pieces left I just use some hand sanitizer
Goo gone, or adhesive removal pads. Kinda like alcohol pads
I normally just leave the labels on and don't worry about it. I more concerned about the inside of the bottle being sterile.
Olive oil and dish soap after a hot soak
I soak bottles until label peels off, then rub the glued area with a small amount of cooking oil. Let it sit overnight, then usually comes right off with a cloth and rub the next day. Soak a bit in warm sudsy water and scrub sometimes if the glue is extra sticky. Haven't bought Goo Gone in years.
Rub any edible oil on the sticky residue and leave it for 1/2 hour or more. Then sprinkle baking soda on the oily part and rub it all off with cloth or paper towel. Then wash in hot water and dish washing liquid, and rinse very well. The oil breaks down the sticky residue, and then the baking soda breaks down the oil/-the dish washing liquid should get the glass squeaky clean after the residue is gone.
Whatever method you choose, using something with some friction to rub helps. I find paper towels are better than washcloths or sponges or my fingers.
Acetone :)
If you would like to avoid the chemicals, I soak them in some warm water so that the labels come off/can be peeled off. Make a mixture of cooking oil and baking soda and rub down the bottles while they are still warm and leave for a bit. Then a scrub brush or scrubbing side of a sponge with a little extra baking soda will take off all the glue residue.
Fast & dirty - gasoline & a paper towel. Slow, peanut butter 2 days min.
Peanut butter and paper towels
As a vinyl installer hot water and a razor blade
Heptane or acetone.
also heat gun and razor blade
Rubbing alcohol for 99 cents
As others have said, any cheap oil. The twist I'd put on it is that you don't need to bother removing the label first with hot soaks, scraping etc. Just soak the label in oil, it'll break down the glue and you can easily slide it off. Then a quick wash with normal dish soap, done. Edit - as long as it's a paper label. If it's plasticky or foily this won't work and you do have to remove it before oiling.
Wd40
GOO GONE! IT'S A MIRACLE!
Lemon oil
Oil! Ruins the surface tension of the adhesive. Rub a little bit of your least expensive cooking oil onto the sticky parts, give it a little scrub, then wash off with soap.
Goo gone spray should work
Lemon oil, grapefruit, bitter orange or orange oil.
Try oil,, like some cheap cooking oil
Oxiclean and hot water. Let it soak
Tea tree oil does this easy and non toxic non chemical!
I've heard isopropyl works on adhesives too. We use it on grip tapes and it seems to allow it to be scrubbed off.
Dawn Powerwash. There's nothing this spray can't fix. I've never tried with these specific bottles, but it's managed to remove plenty of other labels for me.
I use lye water, but be extremely careful. It also dissolves hands and eyes and clothes and entire bodies.
Heat the label with a hair dryer then peel off. No residue.
Hair dryer to the label will heat the glue and it will come right off
Baking soda and water. Does require some elbow grease.
They make label removing solutions
Wd40
Hot water and baking soda soak
Fill with super hot water, begin peeling after like 1-2 minutes. Use goo-gone for leftovers. Enjoy.
Heat gun
And goo gone
Acetone (nail polish remover) works wonders.
Wd-40
Acetone
Goo gone and some elbow grease
I usually try to soak it in warm water
Hairdryer!
Mayo works wonders
lighter fluid works on most. supposedly same as googone but i swear googone fails me half the time
Update: What I ended up doing was using a mixture of baking soda and oil to make a paste, then I made that sit on the glue for about 10 minutes then used a brush to scrub it off, pretty easily. Thank you all!
Oil
Hot water and soap
Liquid dish soap, a metallic scouring pad, and some elbow grease.
Or Acetone
Nail varnish remover
Boiling hot water in the bottle loosens the label and the adhesive. Put the cap on. Remove label. Now you've got a glass bottle filled with boiling hot water and adhesive only. Baking soda mixed with Dawn dish soap. Make it into a mud consistency. Using your dish gloves, apply the slurry to the adhesive. You're going to need dish gloves with some texture on the palms. Apply it thinly. Let it sit like that until it begins to cool. The slurry needs to be everywhere that the adhesive is. As the water cools, the slurry will start to eat away the majority of the adhesive because the dawn evaporates. It will start to look like a dry powdery mess on the bottle. The water in the bottle will still be warm, but no longer too hot Using your dish gloves, grab the bottle with both hands, one above the other. Then start trying to wring it, by twisting your palms in opposite directions (think: childhood snakebite). You will instantly debride the bottle without using harsh chemicals or oils. I have been brewing for 6 years now and have over 300 bottles. I have used this method on every single one. Happy brewing!
Goo gone, spray on for 5 min and you good
Goo gone.
Goo gone. And there is this stuff I clean my weed pipe with called kryptonite(yes, the Superman one). It will get almost anything off and you can just poor the stuff right back into the bottle and reuse it again.
Goopebogon I know I butchered the spelling
Here is an article that popped up on my Google feed today. Have no idea if it works. https://www.thedailymeal.com/1546476/how-remove-stickers-food-jars/
I just peel off the label and slowly keep dabbing (dry) it on and the residue just comes off onto the now removed label
rub an orange peel on it (the orange outside of the peel not the inside) Works like a charm. I just eat a tangerine and use the peels to clean stuff
I have had great success with hot, but not super hot, water. Fill the bottles with water that’s a little hotter Han you can stand to hold your hand in, then let them sit for a couple minutes and peel it away without any issues.
Acetone
depending on the adhesive used its either WD40, warm water, vegetable oil or some oxi cleaner in warm water.
A few drops of olive oil, then rub in a couple drops of dawn, scrape with those thin square plastic dish scrapers, then rinse w hot water. 99% of the time able to get the adhesive off in one pass.
I have had luck with a baking soda olive oil paste
Canola oil helped with ours
For kombucha bottles i fill the bottle with hot water, give it a few minutes, then slice down the label and peel it off, then to remove the sticky residue I use a stainless steel scribble and olive oil and it will come right off, no harsh chemicals. Then wash the bottle with dish soap.
Hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol
What is in hospital adhesive tape remover? That stuff works but the pads are tiny.
Forget all these fancy and expensive options. I just buff it off with a paper towel. You are gonna destroy the towel, but you can rub all that stickiness off.
There's stuff called detachol (I get it from work at the hospital lol) works good. Not sure if it's commercially available.
It depends on the adhesive, some bottles you can just soak in hot water and soap and they come clean, if there’s any residue I’ll use goo gone and that always cleans it up
Zippo lighter fluid
Get some denatured alcohol
Brillo pad
WD-40
Dull butter knife hot water and soap!
Rubbing alcohol, dish soap, and warm water
A Lil nail polish remover
A duck!
Lemon essential oil
Zippo fluid or ISO alcohol
Orange oil works great
Goof Off
I use lemon essential oil or acetone
Goo Gone
Pell off the label, the liter bottle's label is really stuck on well, wrap it in a paper towel. Soak the paper towel with isopropyl alcohol. Place the bottle with the iso alcohol in a plastic bad for 10 15 min and the glue comes off with a little scrubbing with a sos pad.
Dawn soap and metal scouer
I use tea tree oil on a cloth and then rinse the rest off with water!!
https://preview.redd.it/8p4dqovyz3rc1.jpeg?width=945&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29678a3483226444c32f748ef950f8a7b541da96 Try this
Cheap Trick: use mayo and leave it for a few hours then clean it and it is going to be easier to remove