I was sitting at my desk in my shorts when I dropped an open container of tool magic. I was able to quickly catch it with my legs, but it spilled between my thighs. It is used to coat tools with a rubbery coat on the tips, so they won’t mar your work. Normally you can peal it off when it dries. However because I was able to quickly use the jar to scoop most of it back in the jar there is a too thin of layer on my legs to peel off. The container says to run under water. I’m like a duck now, the water runs right off me!! I went on the website and emailed the company. No response yet.
It has petroleum distillates,heptane,xylene,methyl ethyl ketone and ethylbenzine in the ingredients. My choices for removing it as I see it are acetone or gasoline. I don’t have anything else that I know of in the house. I don’t want to try either without advice. Why irritate my skin any more than needed? Will either of these work or maybe some other common product? If not do I have to run out and buy something?
Nail polish remover (acetone) shouldn’t irritate your skin, other than the rubbing action. Just make sure what you get from the store is acetone and not the non-acetone stuff.
The acetone isn’t doing much. The amount of rubbing it’s taking to work is really irritating my skin. I was hoping there would be something that would dissolve it a bit better.
When I do plumbing work I always seem to get PVC pipe glue on myself. I don’t bother trying to get it off. It eventually sheds along with the surface epithelial cells.
you could always apply more so that it’s thick enough to peel it.
often dissolving something for removal just spreads it, contaminating new area.
some of the chemicals involved are gone as it goes from liquid in the bottle to dry. what is left may no longer be a problem. irritating the skin by rubbing or chemicals may be more of a problem than the stuff itself.
if the label has instructions for removal from skin then follow that. if it has a website then go there.
lots of stuff like that, if not being an obvious hurt, i might just leave until it wears off on its own.
The pain from pulling out body hairs might be a consideration, depending on circumstances. One circumstance being whether the stuff can hold on to a hair strongly enough to pull it out. If it can’t, then no problem.
I find that with nail polish at least, the trick is to soak it and let it sit before trying to rub. Perhaps saturate a paper towel and hold it on the spot for like 5 mins before wiping.
I tried everything suggested except the goo gone (because I don’t have any in the house) and applying more. The website was no help. And the container said to flush with water if it got on the skin. Well I did that with my hands, but it was too late on my legs, it had already dried. I think I will try applying more to a small patch to see if that facilitates the removal. It could be worse… Usually I just glue myself to stuff, at least This can be covered up with pants until I get rid of it.
I would suggest applying time to it, in other words, leave it alone.
If you keep applying various chemicals in an effort to remove the stuff you may cause more damage. Your skin under the stuff will keep growing, it is always growing, and in a few days you should be able to peel the rubber stuff off, like dead skin from a sunburn. Take a hot shower.
The other consideration you should think about is that many of the solvents you keep trying are not real safe on bare skin, they will pass right through your skin and into your tissues and blood. You don’t want to poison yourself by throwing everything at it. The skin on your inner thighs is very thin.
I’d try lacquer thinner. lacquer thinner is the solvent carpenters use to clean up spilled contact cement. I had a new formica top installed and there were several areas where it had to be cleaned.
It doesn’t hurt your skin. I use lacquer thinner at least three or four times a year.
I came home one day from my new summer job at the state highway department covered in automotive paint and a good bit of tar. Baby oil took it right off. I say this for those who may get painty-oily-greasy-tarry stuff on themselves from time to time. It might work with your stuff since it says it has petroleum distillates in it.
I was going to recommend this as well. I used it to remove roofing tar from my hands because it’s all I could find in the house. The thought train was something like “I need mineral sprirts, bur we appear to be out. Hmmm, baby oil, AKA mineral oil. Mineral spirits, mineral oil - worth a shot!” Worked like a charm!
Of course, now I can’t imagine putting that stuff on a baby’s butt :eek: