What is a good safe way to wash pine sap from an animal's fur? (lemmy.world)

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For context, there are two stray dogs at our local city park that we can't outright adopt, apartment rules say no pets, but we've been doing our best within our means to care for them at the park in the meantime.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I suspect that they're talking about using cooking oil to remove the sap, which is a thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1897adl/lpt_olive_or_vegetable_oil_will_easily_remove/

Then you use detergent to remove the oil.

https://andreadekker.com/how-to-remove-sticky-tree-sap/

I have TONS of experience removing sticky tree sap from shoes, clothing, hands, hair, toys, strollers, and more, as we had roughly 35-40 massive drippy, sappy pine trees on our property when we first moved to our farmhouse.

How to Remove Tree Sap from Hair:

I really wish I didn’t know this tip — but I do, and thankfully, it’s also really simple 🙂

Just pour a little vegetable oil into your hand and rub it into the sappy area. You could even use a comb to scrape it out. Once the stickiness is gone, you can then just shampoo as normal (you don’t need to shampoo immediately, you can wait until bath time.)

The soap and shampoo being talked about on Reddit and this site respectively to remove the oil just being detergent.

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Precisely, I would use oil as a last resort, as it is difficult to wash out of dense fur or a double coat.

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