Actichem Orange Solvent 500ml spray

Product Overview

Actichem Orange Solvent is a concentrated citrus blend for removing oily marks and gum from carpets and fabrics. It contains a super strength blend of d-limonene terpene solvents and emulsifiers for removing tough gum, oily soils, grease and paints.

Orange Solvent has been specially designed to enable effective rinsing with clean water or an extraction detergent solution. It is suitable for use on all carpet fibres, fabrics and hard surfaces. However, some surfaces are solvent sensitive, including various carpet backings, some plastics and polymer coatings.

This listing is the 500 ml trigger spray — the spotting-kit size. It contains the same chemistry as the 5 litre pack, not a weaker dilution, and it is regulated for transport in exactly the same way.

Benefits

• Powerful — a high-performance water-rinseable blend of terpene solvents, wetting agents and emulsifiers.
• Oil stains — removes tough oily stains, paints, cosmetics, grease, oily spots, adhesives and most inks.
• Gum removal — outstanding removal of gums, bitumen, tar and rubber marks. Works quickly and effectively.
• Equipment cleaning — a powerful cleaner for all types of industrial equipment.

Application Areas and Surface Suitability

• Carpet cleaning — spot removal of oils, gum, grease, sticky residues, paints and cosmetics.
• Household multi-purpose — sticky marks off tables, chairs, utensils, sinks, fridges and similar.
• Bathrooms — shower screens, vanities, tubs and tapware.
• Laundry — as a pre-wash stain remover.
• General use — offices, workshops, construction sites, schools and similar.

Do not use on solvent-sensitive surfaces, including bitumen-backed carpeting.

Choosing Between Orange Solvent and Gum Gone

Both remove gum and adhesive. The difference is what they are made of.

Gum Gone is over 60% xylene and Poisons Schedule 6. Orange Solvent is citrus and hydrocarbon based, Poisons Schedule 5, with no xylene. For work in occupied premises — homes, childcare, aged care, schools — Orange Solvent is the better choice, and it rinses with water, which Gum Gone does not.

Gum Gone remains the stronger product on the most stubborn adhesives. Use it where you need it, not by default.

How to Use

Read and understand the safety data sheet before use. Always pre-test in an inconspicuous location for substrate sensitivity to chemicals.

Dilution: ready to use — no dilution necessary.

1. Sponge or scrape up any surface spot material.
2. Apply Orange Solvent to a clean white absorbent cloth and apply to the spot.
3. Orange Solvent can also be applied to severe stains and hard surfaces using a trigger spray bottle.
4. Blot or tamp to remove the spot. Do not rub. Deep spots may need light brushing. Work from outside to the centre of large spots.
5. Repeat if necessary.
6. Rinse or extract with warm water or an emulsifier solution.

Apply to the cloth, not the surface, wherever possible. It limits how much solvent reaches backings and adhesives, and it reduces the vapour you breathe. Spraying directly puts far more solvent into the air than dampening a cloth does.

Safety

This page already told you Orange Solvent is hazardous and to wear gloves, goggles and protective clothing. That was right, and it is preserved below. What it did not tell you was which hazards, and one of them is serious. This listing previously recorded only “Safety profile: Class 3 Flammable” — a transport classification. It has been corrected.

Actichem’s safety data sheet for AP128, version 2.5 issued 18 June 2025, classifies Orange Solvent as a HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL under the Model WHS Regulations. A smaller bottle is not a milder product.

• Signal word: DANGER
• H226 — flammable liquid and vapour
• H304 — may be fatal if swallowed and enters airways
• H315 — causes skin irritation
• H317 — may cause an allergic skin reaction
• HAZCHEM code: •3Y
• Poisons Schedule: 5

⚠ H304 — the hazard the old wording hid

H304 means may be fatal if swallowed and enters airways. With a hydrocarbon solvent the risk is not poisoning from a large dose. It is that a small amount reaching the lungs — from swallowing, from vomiting after swallowing, or from siphoning by mouth — causes chemical pneumonitis, which can be fatal and can develop hours later.

• Never decant this product into an unlabelled bottle, and never into anything that has held a drink. Orange Solvent smells like citrus and looks like water — that combination, in a 500 ml trigger bottle, is exactly why it must stay labelled.
• Never siphon or transfer by mouth.
• If it is swallowed, do NOT induce vomiting. Rinse the mouth with water and call a Poisons Information Centre or doctor immediately. Vomiting is what draws it into the lungs.
• Symptoms can be delayed. Anyone who has swallowed it needs medical assessment even if they seem fine.

Keep it out of reach of children if you are working in an occupied home.

⚠ H317 — d-limonene sensitisation

H317 means repeated exposure can sensitise you permanently. The sensitiser is d-limonene, which makes up 30–60% of this product. Sensitisation is not ordinary irritation: once you are sensitised, you stay sensitised, and thereafter even brief contact can trigger a reaction.

This is the reason to wear gloves every time rather than only for the messy jobs — and a trigger bottle in a spotting kit is the one you reach for casually, dozens of times a week. Citrus solvents are often treated as the “safe” option because they smell pleasant; on skin contact, they are the one most likely to cause a lasting problem. If a rash develops, stop using it and seek medical advice.

Flammability

Actichem do not state a flash point; treat it as flammable regardless. Keep away from ignition sources, hot surfaces and sparks. Vapour is heavier than air and will collect in sub-floors, pits and confined spaces. Ventilate before and during use, and never use it near an operating heater or a truckmount exhaust.

Do not mix

Actichem list strong oxidisers and oxidising acids, peroxides, halogens, vinyl chloride, iodine pentafluoride, and chlorine bleaches and pool chlorine as incompatible with Orange Solvent.

That matters in a spotting kit. Keep this bottle away from Conquer O2, Spotaway U and Stain Fix — all peroxide-based. Solvent-soaked rags stored with an oxidiser is a fire, not a theory.

Personal protective equipment

Actichem specify nitrile, PVA or Viton gloves for this product. Glove material is not interchangeable across our solvent range — the material specified for Gum Gone, for instance, is PE/EVAL/PE, not nitrile. Also wear chemical goggles or safety glasses with side shields, protective clothing, and use a respirator with an organic vapour filter where ventilation is limited or the product is sprayed. Use warning signage where the public may be present.

First aid

Swallowed — do NOT induce vomiting. Rinse the mouth with water. Immediately call a Poisons Information Centre or doctor and tell them the product is an aspiration hazard.

Eyes. Wash out immediately with fresh running water, holding the eyelids open. Seek medical attention.

Skin. Remove contaminated clothing. Wash with soap and water. If a rash develops, stop using the product — see the sensitisation note above.

Inhalation. Move to fresh air. Seek medical attention if breathing is difficult or irritation persists.

⚠ Dangerous Goods — Freight

Orange Solvent is classified UN1993, Class 3, Packing Group II, and there is no pack-size exemption. Unlike several Actichem products which are not regulated at 5 litres or less, this 500 ml pack is regulated for transport just as the 5 litre is. Buying the small size does not avoid it.

If you are consigning it rather than carrying it yourself, tell your freight provider it is dangerous goods. A DG shipping surcharge applies.

Specifications

Related Products

• Actichem Orange Solvent 5 Ltr — the refill size.
• Actichem Gum Gone 500 ml — the stronger xylene-based option. Poisons Schedule 6; not water rinseable.
• Actichem Citrus Gel 500 ml — gel form for vertical surfaces. Note its own serious classification (H360D, may damage the unborn child) before choosing it — it is not a milder alternative.

Safety Data Sheet

Actichem Orange Solvent Safety Data Sheet — version 2.5, issued 18 June 2025

If this bottle lives in a spotting kit, the safety data sheet needs to travel with it.

SKU: AP128.005S

Working in an occupied building, or not sure whether Orange Solvent or Gum Gone suits the job? Contact Carpet Cleaners Warehouse before you order — we would rather help you choose the right solvent than sell you the strongest one.