How do you get those labels off the vitamin and nuts plastic jars

 I've started using the plastic containers for vitamins and mixed nuts and
cheeses from Costco but some labels come off easily while others fall into
a million pieces.

Is there a TRICK to removing the label from these jars?

Maybe a mechanical technique (I try to peal from all edges, sloooooowly,
stopping as soon as I get a tear).

Or better yet, some secret solvent?

  wrote:


Warmth softens the adhesive. Just don't make it so hot the label
melts.

 

Many come off easy after soaking in the sink with med-hot water and a little
soap.  Some of the others require goo gone or something like it to remove
the residue. The mixed nut jars are the absolute worst.  Maybe they will
read this and modify the glue. -:)

If the warm water and a little soap works you are way ahead by recycling and
not buying storage containers at the BORG.  If you factor in the cost of a
solvent, I am not so sure you come out ahead.

I find the peanut butter jars to be the best overall size and easy removal
for storing stuff on the truck. Compared to buying storage containers at
Wally World I eat the peanut butter for a net cost of about 50 cents a jar.
Pretty darn cheap lunch.


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 wrote:


Soak the label with a dab of vegetable oil. Another method is peanut
butter. The oils soak the label and wash off -- after awhile.

 On 10/6/2010 9:42 PM, Oren wrote:

Veg oil, PB, goo-gone, goop hand cleaner. Kinda like stripping
wallpaper- you need to scuff the surface so it can get down into the
paper. I always try a dry peeling first, though. It all depends on how
tight the labeling machine was set that day, how well the glue was
applied, how well the mold release was washed off the bottles, how hot
the container got in transit. Sometimes you get lucky.

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