Pine Sol use by accident

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Former employee, I’d make certain that they found their way to the unemployment office to prevent possible injuries to living creatures.

Lol - extreme. People make mistakes, no one died at least that was mentioned by the OP. No need to go for the jugular.

Ohh and back in the 80s I was a vert skater, and once I washed my very stinky pads in mix of pinesol and Murphy’s oil soap… and they forever smelled like that even after rinsing a dozen times. It was terrible on hot days. Worst part is the knee pads were custom made (flap jax ) and super expensive back then. :zany-face:

A week of heavy scuba diving and my wetsuit smells pretty bad after making its way back home. Always fun to clean to get the smell out...
 

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I spent over a decade in underground mining, mostly coal but some metal non-metal like limestone. There is a particular kind of oil used to lubricate the hammer mechanism in a rock drill. The stuff is an adhesive stringy lubricant that is hard to describe but the consistency of syrup but behaves like hot taffy (stringy mess) and is sticky like sap and smells worse than anything imaginable. Between that and the exhaust fumes from the confided space and diesel equipment, the clothing never loses its smell, mo matter how many times you wash it. In fact, it just ruins anything else you wash with it.... I am however told that "back in the day" one could just dunk it all in a drum of carbon tetrachloride and it would come out like new and that some bath houses had a vat just for that! I think there is also a patent and an actual film of a "walk through" dry cleaner where customers simply waded through a pool of carbon tet!

Ohh.. Dr. Reefs aquariums.

In doing some research, it looks like Pine-Sol does (or did) contain toluene. So a good rinse and scrub with water may not be enough if there is residue... As @vetteguy53081 indicated, running some activated carbon wold be a good idea along with the smell check.
 

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I'll just reiterate if the smell is present then you still have the pine oil residue. PineSol uses alcohols as the solvent (per the MSDS as the surfactant) Citric acid (like was stated) or even vinegar might be the most benign.
 

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Ahh, so in theory/practice can be rinsed away with water.

That is my expectation. They put in sufficient surfactants for it to be readily dissolved in the bottle and in a cleaning bucket when diluted, so I expect the same happens in any scenario where it mixes with water.
 

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I'll just reiterate if the smell is present then you still have the pine oil residue. PineSol uses alcohols as the solvent (per the MSDS as the surfactant) Citric acid (like was stated) or even vinegar might be the most benign.
I would just remind folks that odors can often be detected at very low concentrations, and just like colored impurities, is not a very good way to judge concentration.
 

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I would just remind folks that odors can often be detected at very low concentrations, and just like colored impurities, is not a very good way to judge concentration.
Sniffing toluene is not a good practice either. I have been told that it smells just like glue?
 

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