[Zeke]

I have been recently studying so called orange oil based cleaning products. The reason is that Zep Original Orange Hand Cleaner works very well for cleaning finishes on some of the antique furniture that I work on. I'm speaking about products that contain pumice.

I'm getting low so I thought I'd compare the product to other popular OO based hand cleaners. (BTW, d-limonene is the chemical that comprises over 90% of what they are calling OO, and it's powerful. It is an irritant as well. It is found in all citrus.) For this kind of study I will include and weigh heavily on Amazon reviews. Some complaints on Amazon are that the Zep product does not clean hands as well as the Permatex product, Fast Orange. That might be why I should stay with Zep. IDK.

The variety of products relying on d-limonene are numerous including paint and varnish stripper. You can buy d-limonene in just about pure form so theoretically you can make whatever compound you wish to make and use for your specific purpose.

IOW, orange oil products are over 90% hype. They ae effective but everyone is on the bus trying to out-market the next guy when it's all pretty simple.