I use Skin-Tac to help my Dexcom CGM stick to me for at least 14 days. It’s a good sticky adhesive that I paint over the Dex bandage fabric.
Sometimes I get some on my fingers and soap and water doesn’t work to clean it off. Recently when I traveled, I was lucky enough to pack my Skin-Tac bottle in a zip-lock bag. I say lucky because the bottle leaked and spilled inside the bag, but the bag saved my clothes from a mess!
I still wanted to make use of the Skin-Tac remaining in the bottle so I had to handle it to clean it off. As a result, my fingers got very sticky. I heard somewhere that butter could neutralize adhesives, so I tried butter on my fingers. Sure enough, the butter immediately neutralized the Skin-Tac stickiness.
Not an earth-shattering discovery, but helpful nonetheless.
Thanks for the comment. I’ll store your Uni-Solve idea away for later reference.
What I like about butter is that I don’t have to order it from Amazon, I always have it on hand, and it doesn’t have an ingredient list of unpronounceable chemicals. And then there’s shelf life to contend with.
Thanks for letting us know about the butter trick. We have these little packaged squares of Unisolve. This stuff does the trick, but it leaves a very stubborn greasy residue. We’re talking “does not respond to undiluted Dawn” which in my experience degreases everything. I sometimes wonder what’s worse, the stickiness from the Skin-Tac or the oily Unisolve residue… I’m grabbing the butter after the next pump change.
Weird - I don’t seem to see or sense that residue, though, to be honest, half the time, I don’t even bother to attack the leftover adhesive and sorta leave it to showers and nature to remove.
