The Label Experiment Results - Part 2: Removal

Having inspected the bottles for appearance, I soaked all 6 bottles in hot slightly soapy water in the sink for 10 minutes, without touching them at all. On returning to the sink, I was surprised to find all 6 labels floating around the water. Not one of them even needed peeling off?



I had expected the labels using stickers to be a bit of a pain, but there was very little to choose between all the bottles. The milk label had left the milk residue on the bottle, but this effortlessly wiped off. The sticker applied with glue stick had lots of glue residue left on the bottle, but this also came off with a single wipe. All the other bottles were pretty much spotless, with perhaps a single tiny residue on some, which again wiped off instantly.

This part of the experiment has shown that, given I would give each bottle a quick wipe anyway when cleaning and removing the labels, there is nothing to choose between the methods of attaching the labels as far as removal is concerned.