Be careful when you're stripping paint on projects around your home. Most paint strippers have very high VOC levels. But aMAIZEing Biobased Solvent & Stripper is made of corn and soy, creating a completely natural and safe solvent for removal of paint, adhesives, mastic, and graffiti. It can also be used for for cleaning/degreasing.
It's good for you and the environment because it has no environmentally hazardous ingredients. If a product like this does the job, I'm not sure why anyone would use the harmful standards again. Does anyone have experience with products like this? -regina
(ReEdited from 2006-10-25 - MGR)
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Comments (6)
Would this stuff get paint off of brick?
"So has anyone used aMAIZEing Biobased Solvent & Stripper, then?"
Yeah, I have. I like SoyGel better. Look through my previous comments. This has been beaten to death already.
There was a post about this stuff maybe a year ago.
Called the number listed on the website 3 times and left messages, but nobody called me back.
They don't seem too interested in selling this stuff
I'm all for environmentally friendly products, I even go out of my way to buy them (sometimes, not always)... but I'm not too sure about buying products like this that are made of FOOD.
I think it's a major WASTE to use food that could be feeding hungry people (because even if it's too low a quality for the western world to consume, starving people elsewhere will be only too happy to eat it).
Otherwise it looks like a very good product.
Pete: Is it made from the same part of the corn or soy plant that would otherwise be eaten?
Pete it's not so much the "waste" of food, but that there is definitely a glut of corn being grown in this country. Corn is the new wonder product here and therefore farmers are choosing to grow it over other crops because they can sell it for really good prices right now. Personally I think the concern over corn-based products should be what food crop did this replace.
Anyway, this is just my $0.02 so take it with a grain of salt.
(read Omivore's Dilemma for an interesting take on the overwhelming presence of corn)