The tagline is: Pine Sol. Cleaning What Stinks Since 1929.

A: You can use Pine-Sol® cleaners on hard, nonporous surfaces, including floors, sinks, counters, stoves, bathtubs, shower stalls, tile, toilets, garbage cans and diaper pails. For tough jobs, use full strength and rinse immediately. On wood surfaces, do not allow puddles of product to remain.

Pine-Sol can get rid of tough stains and smells such as grease and unpleasant odors on athletic gear for clothing that seems good as new.

The Clorox Company In 1990, The Clorox Company acquired Pine-Sol® and set about innovating the formula and extending the line, with scented products that offer the same time-honored benefit of real clean.

Pine-Sol is a registered trade name of the Clorox Company for a line of household cleaning products, used to clean grease and heavy soil stains. Pine-Sol was based on pine oil when it was created in 1929 and during its rise to national popularity in the 1950s.

There's a reason this powerful disinfectant cleaner has been in your family for generations: it works. Since 1929, Original Pine-Sol® has been cleaning America's toughest dirt, grease and grime. You'll experience that distinctive crisp, clean pine scent every time you use it to clean, deodorize and disinfect your home.

Clean the toughest dirt and grime, and deodorize with one powerful solution. These dilutable all-purpose cleaners can be used on hard, nonporous surfaces, from stoves, sinks, tile and wood* floors to showers, toilets, dumpsters and more.

All-Purpose Cleaners If you need a cleaner to replace your CloroxPro Pine-Sol All-Purpose Cleaner or your Clorox Professional Pine-Sol Lemon Fresh Cleaner, suitable alternatives are Lysol's All-Purpose Cleaner or Mrs. Meyer's All-Purpose Cleaner Spray.

For powerful spot treatment and stain removal, use a sponge or cloth to rub full-strength Original Pine-Sol® into the stain, grease spot or dirt mark. Wash according to the garment's care label, either in your washing machine or by hand.

Pine-Sol detergent was invented by Harry A. Cole of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1929. In 1948, entrepreneur Robert Earnest "Dumas" Milner acquired Magnolia Chemical, the Jackson, Mississippi supplier of Pine-Sol.

Product ingredients

• Ingredient.
• CLEANING AGENT.
• PINUS PALUSTRIS (LONGLEAF PINE) OIL.
• ETHOXYLATED UNDECYL ALCOHOL.
• PINUS (PINE) OIL and PINUS PALUSTRIS (LONGLEAF PINE) OIL.
• BENZOIC ACID.
• ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL.
• SULFONIC ACIDS, PETROLEUM, SODIUM SALTS.

Pine Sol, one of the most widely used pine oil cleaners, contains 8% to 12% pine oil, 3% to 7% alkyl alcohol ethoxylates, 1% to 5% isopropanol, and 1% to 5% sodium petroleum sulfonate in its “Original” formulation19; other cleaners branded as Pine Sol contain no pine oil.