On Jan 7, 1:14*am, Chuck Banshee wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:27:06 +0000, Chuck Banshee wrote:
Since I half expected the glass jar to break, I did this in the sink -
but to my surprise, the glass held the just-boiled water.

An unexpected bonus was the fact that the glue under the wrap-around
label heated up enough to be easily balled off with a kitchen utensil.

Maybe we accidentally found a way to remove the under-label glue without
solvents!

I've been removing labels from jars by soaking them in warm water for
decades - no, not soaking them for decades, using the soaking method
for decades. ;-)

The water goes right through the paper and dissolves the glue.

For stubborn adhesives or items I can't soak, cigarette lighter (not
barbecue) lighter fluid is my favorite substance. It also soaks
through labels, dissolves the glue and then evaporates.