Easy hand cleaning Tru Oil

[DuBois]

I hadn't found a way of getting tru oil off hands well and have just let it kinda wear off in past. I was trying to wash it off with soap and water the other day and there was some lavender essential oil on the window sill so for some unknown reason I shot a few drops on my hands and rubbed it in. Amazingly tru oil vanished and I had nice smelling hands to boot. Have since tried this with olive oil, tea tree oil, and mandarin oil. All do the same.

This may be old school knowledge but I thought it was cool.

[George Tsoukalas]

Good to know. Jawge

[Stick Bender]

Try cedar wood oil on your big toe & you will sleep like a baby for real, but for tru oil I always rob my wife's work bag she always has disposable surgical gloves but my hands don't smell good like yours

[penderbender]

Yeah it works good for pitch or sap whatever you wanna call it. It takes oil to fight oil. Butter or vegetable oil any of it works!

[loon]

thanks for the tip!

Can't get much tru oil in here since it's apparently illegal in CA due to the solvents..

[JW_Halverson]

Crisco, corn oil, bacon grease, almost any fat will help clean up Tru Oil from your hands.

[mullet]

I only use one finger and wipe it on my Jeans.

[turtle]

I usually use gojo hand cleaner. Works well.

[Weylin]

I only use one finger and wipe it on my Jeans.

Pretty much

[Dakota Kid]

Almost all essential oils are solvents by nature. That's where turpentine originally came from.  Orange oil is one of the best paint/glue strippers around. There's a strange trend lately where some distributors of the oils are advising eating undiluted oils and direct topical application, both of which are a bad idea.

Tru-oil is oil based, so any non-polar solvent or even oil should dissolve it. A little WD40 followed by soapy water does the trick. Some of those essential oils can be pretty pricey, too much to use as hand cleaner anyway. .

[Badger]

  I use acetone, paint thinner, mineral spirits. Any solvent I happen to have handy. I just put a little on a rag and wipe my hands.

[DuBois]

  I use acetone, paint thinner, mineral spirits. Any solvent I happen to have handy. I just put a little on a rag and wipe my hands.

Damn, now I'm feelin kinda prissy 

[chamookman]

I just used Tru-Oil on the stock of a Flintlock trade Gun I built from a kit. Just used a Finger and Lava Soap took it right off. Bob

[Pat B]

I do the same as Mullet; use one finger and wipe it on my jeans.

[osage outlaw]

I apply it with a cosmetic wedge.  No cleanup required.