diff --git a/lib/promrelabel/relabel.go b/lib/promrelabel/relabel.go
index be3c5f6fa..d48dde26a 100644
--- a/lib/promrelabel/relabel.go
+++ b/lib/promrelabel/relabel.go
@@ -592,9 +592,7 @@ func GetLabelByName(labels []prompbmarshal.Label, name string) *prompbmarshal.La
 // This should help GC cleaning up label.Name and label.Value strings.
 func CleanLabels(labels []prompbmarshal.Label) {
 	for i := range labels {
-		label := &labels[i]
-		label.Name = ""
-		label.Value = ""
+		labels[i] = prompbmarshal.Label{}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/promscrape/scrapework.go b/lib/promscrape/scrapework.go
index a5fa45aa5..a516354f3 100644
--- a/lib/promscrape/scrapework.go
+++ b/lib/promscrape/scrapework.go
@@ -736,11 +736,9 @@ func (wc *writeRequestCtx) resetNoRows() {
 
 	labels := wc.labels
 	for i := range labels {
-		label := &labels[i]
-		label.Name = ""
-		label.Value = ""
+		labels[i] = prompbmarshal.Label{}
 	}
-	wc.labels = wc.labels[:0]
+	wc.labels = labels[:0]
 
 	wc.samples = wc.samples[:0]
 }
diff --git a/lib/promutils/labels.go b/lib/promutils/labels.go
index b4f9216eb..75c223539 100644
--- a/lib/promutils/labels.go
+++ b/lib/promutils/labels.go
@@ -282,9 +282,7 @@ func (x *Labels) RemoveLabelsWithDoubleUnderscorePrefix() {
 
 func cleanLabels(labels []prompbmarshal.Label) {
 	for i := range labels {
-		label := &labels[i]
-		label.Name = ""
-		label.Value = ""
+		labels[i] = prompbmarshal.Label{}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/protoparser/opentelemetry/stream/streamparser.go b/lib/protoparser/opentelemetry/stream/streamparser.go
index be5f21e4d..9d4dab2cc 100644
--- a/lib/protoparser/opentelemetry/stream/streamparser.go
+++ b/lib/protoparser/opentelemetry/stream/streamparser.go
@@ -252,9 +252,7 @@ func (wr *writeContext) reset() {
 
 func resetLabels(labels []prompbmarshal.Label) []prompbmarshal.Label {
 	for i := range labels {
-		label := &labels[i]
-		label.Name = ""
-		label.Value = ""
+		labels[i] = prompbmarshal.Label{}
 	}
 	return labels[:0]
 }