cleaning soapstone

We just returned home after some time away in Maine to fined that our housecleaner has "polished" the top of our Woodstock Fireview with Pledge furniture polish, leaving a gummy residue. The product she used is "Pledge Furniture Cleaner and Polish Revitalizing Oil with Natural Orange Oil."

Woodstock isn't open on Sunday, nor is product information at SC Johnson, so I am hoping that some of you gurus could help me out with advice on how to clean the top. Temps hereabouts have been down to 42 degrees already, so we are getting ready for the burning season and I don't think I want to put heat into Pledge Furniture Cleaner and Polish!


Thanks in advance!


Herb

I will definitely call Woodstock.

Now the wife has "cleaned it" with olive oil, saying, "you can cook on soapstone just like a griddle, so clean it with oil."

Now the color is a deep blue with veins on top and light gray-blue on the sides.......



Oh, my!


herbert

Thanks to all who posted replies.

Michael at Woodstock, who sold me the stove in the first place, verifies that all the various oils will evaporate after one or two burns and the stovetop will probably go back to its nice light gray color. But it will probably smell pretty funky at first, with Orange Oil Pledge and Extra Virgin olive oil burning off together!

They have customers oiling their soapstone countertops (with mineral oil) every few months and those don't even get hot, he said.

Now I have to get the housekeeper to stop Pledging every flat surface in the house. I can just see the flatscreen TV covered with Orange Oil, yuck, yuck!

Herb