Tuesday 31 January 2012

Removing Stickers/Labels/Price tags

Are you having difficulty with removing stickers, labels or price tags on your toy box without sticky residue or damage? Before I begin, I would like to thank Eric for sharing this amazing tip.

All you need is a hair dryer.
Let's pick a test subject. As you can see, if you want to open the container, you have to remove the sticker first.
Use the hair dryer to heat the sticker for approximately 40 seconds to 1 minute.
Peel off the label slowly and if you notice it's still hard to peel it off, try heating the label for another 30 to 40 seconds.
Viola! No sticky smudges!
Let's take another object, a plastic container of tic tac sweets, bought in early December 2011. For the front side, I tried to remove the label without heating the sticker, and for the back side, I used the hair dryer to heat the sticker before peeling it off.

Ok, Stormtrooper, I order you to tear of the sticker so make sure you do it perfectly!
Stormtrooper!! Look! What have you done!?
This is the result you get when you just tear off directly. As you can see, tearing it this way may leave a sticky residue. Even worse, the label tears halfway.
Heating the sticker before peeling reduces risk of sticky smudges and tearing of the labels (as shown in the picture).
This tutorial may not work for some labels especially those labels or stickers that are super sticky. It is not a 100% guarantee that it will work. Editing by Sylvia.

6 comments:

B-Mecha said...

Very cute storm trooper!

hmm... now I know how to get rid of price tag at my collections. Sometimes it will damage the box :( . Thanks for the tips!

Star Stuff Group said...

A great way to remove the tags from the products, without any problem I like the tag remover, very useful at home as well as office.
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Rory Fugerson said...

My store uses till rolls and price tags to help my customers about the item's price information. I'm really glad that I use these till rolls.

DeX said...

Hi,

There's a product that helps alot in peeling off sticker. I use goo gone. and it works!! for more info you can google or youtube it.

Unknown said...

Basically, I used to remove stickers and labels using hair dryer cause it's actually easily to peel. Though I have stumble another alternative ways upon reading some blogs.

Packaging News Australia said...

Thanks for the tip, Eric! Removing stickers and labels can be a pain, and this hair dryer trick sounds like a game-changer. Plus, it's a great way to prep a surface for custom stickers and labels. Awesome share!