Green or Clean: Project 2 ~ Adhesive remover

Adhesive Remover

We have an old Honda that needed a back wing window. My wonderful hubby found one but it was covered with window tint. None of the other windows had window tint. He took a razor blade and scraped all the tint off the window. The problem is that is left the adhesive all over it.


Recently, I had been on Pinterest and had seen several natural adhesive removers. I ended up using some furniture oil, Murphy's Oil, which is an all natural vegetable oil. I used an old rag and rub most of the adhesive off the window with the oil and then followed it with white vinegar and a different rag to clean the window. It took a couple of times but worked like a charm. It highlighted the few bits of tint left behind so I could gently remove them with the razor blade.


Here are some other natural adhesive removers:

• mineral oil, baby oil or orange oil (any natural oil, possibly even vegetable oil) followed by white vinegar to clean off the oil
• These are generally safe on wood and when used on wood do not need to be followed with vinegar

• white vinegar, it seems you may need to soak the adhesive for a few hours
• This is safe for most surfaces but because it needs to sit for some time, not usually best for wood

• rubbing alcohol
• This is not safe on porous materials such as wood. Works great on removed bandage adhesive from skin (as do oils).