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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2508480" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>That last part bears repeating--if you burn poison ivy, it will vaporize the oil and get it everywhere the smoke goes, including inside your body. (Fortunately, I learned this from someone else's experience; I'm told that it's an absolute ***** of a lesson to learn the hard way.)</p><p></p><p>Bleach will work, but the Poison Ivy Killers from Ortho and RoundUp are both more effective, IMHO. The only catch is that you have to be careful with the RoundUp and Ortho products, as they can also kill trees--you can, per the label on at least one of the two, use the concentrate straight up to destroy stumps. </p><p></p><p>The best defense against poison ivy is to clean up good afterwards. My dad washes his arms with gasoline(!) if he's been working around poison ivy, but I'm not that tough, so I use this poison ivy scrub that I found at WalMart (ETA: Cortaid Poison Ivy Removal Scrub; see post 38). I don't recall who makes it, but it by God works; if I've been into the poison ivy (and, let's face it, that's one of those plants you only recognize when you're far enough into it for the brush hog to have thrown it all over the back of your neck), the clothes go into the washer and I go into a cold shower with the scrub. I haven't had a bout with poison ivy since I started that routine, and I keep finding that crap all over the place (one of the things I don't like living on a heavily-forested property).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2508480, member: 26737"] That last part bears repeating--if you burn poison ivy, it will vaporize the oil and get it everywhere the smoke goes, including inside your body. (Fortunately, I learned this from someone else's experience; I'm told that it's an absolute ***** of a lesson to learn the hard way.) Bleach will work, but the Poison Ivy Killers from Ortho and RoundUp are both more effective, IMHO. The only catch is that you have to be careful with the RoundUp and Ortho products, as they can also kill trees--you can, per the label on at least one of the two, use the concentrate straight up to destroy stumps. The best defense against poison ivy is to clean up good afterwards. My dad washes his arms with gasoline(!) if he's been working around poison ivy, but I'm not that tough, so I use this poison ivy scrub that I found at WalMart (ETA: Cortaid Poison Ivy Removal Scrub; see post 38). I don't recall who makes it, but it by God works; if I've been into the poison ivy (and, let's face it, that's one of those plants you only recognize when you're far enough into it for the brush hog to have thrown it all over the back of your neck), the clothes go into the washer and I go into a cold shower with the scrub. I haven't had a bout with poison ivy since I started that routine, and I keep finding that crap all over the place (one of the things I don't like living on a heavily-forested property). [/QUOTE]
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