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How to clean that irksome cannabis goo stuck to you/your equipment?

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Pandora

Pandora

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Get around much cannabis and you're gonna get sticky.

Spend the day trimming buds or working with hash oil and it can get ridic.

Spend a week taking bong hits and that pipe can get really funky. Here's some downhome and inexpensive yet incredibly effective cleanup techniques:


YOUR HANDS:

My step-sister (ex) turned me on to this. As she said, "Like goes with like," and she was right. Just wash hands with Olive Oil thoroughly, then follow up with a regular surfactant (such as Dr. Bronner's) and the goo is gone! It's incredibly efficacious and works a LOT better than washing your hands with an nps, such as isopropyl alcohol. A lot healthier too I imagine.


YOUR PIPE:

I've never tried cleaning my gear with oil like above - it might be worth a shot. But what really works well here is a good slosh of isopropyl alcohol (about 1/3'rd of a small bottle which tends to cost about $1 to $2) and epsom salts. Since the alcohol and the salts do NOT react, they both work together to scrub the equipment. Add a scritchy pipe cleaner and you may get that rig looking like new.
 
Thanks for sharing this Pandora.

I have not tried that olive oil method before, but will surely give it a go. Another method, more quick and dirty, is to run your resinous fingers through your hair.

Isopropyl and salt is a definite favorite for pipe cleaning in my end.

Also handy for pipe cleaning ime has been grass blades. Take a handful of grass blades and twist/pinch them together and rub it along the inside of your bowl. Apply a little heat beforehand if the resin is really caked on there. A few minutes later and the inside of your bowl looks like glass again.
 
Acetone seems to dissolve the residue the fastest. You can evaporate the solvent and then put the resulting cannabinoid oil in edibles/pills. Same thing for vaporizers (cleaner). You can clean it up somewhat by re'crystal'izing the goo in a series of solvents: acetone, naphtha, IPA, evaporating each time. The cannabinoids are soluble in all 3 but the combusted impurities are not necessarily. You can turn a nearly black solution into something amber or brown.
 
Iso and oil are great for cleaning fiskars.

Humboldt Hands is a specialized gritty soap for sticky fingers---but you can turn most of that into hashish anyways :p


Thanks for sharing :thumb_up:
 
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