Technical Cleaning Your Hands.......I found a new (for me)way

Dawn Dish Soap…with a Scotch-Brite pad if needed.

 

“Your soaking in it”

 

I used gas for 20 years, then graduated to Diesel. Finally moved up to the orange gritty stuff.

 

One trick I learned while I was working , when my hands got real dirty and greasy , I would get some Joes on my hands then grab some absorb all and put it on my hands. That extra grit would really help in getting the crap off my hands!






Bones

 

Ky jelly before any work , makes it all easier

 

Some years ago I found a couple bars of Cra-z soap at a local closeout/discount store. It cleaned good, didn't irritate or dry out my hands and a bar lasted a long time. But I've never found it for sale around here since. Though that might be due to the fact that it's kinda spendy at around $10 a bar online. I'd pick up a couple more bars if it was more reasonably priced.

http://cra-zclean.com/

More recently been using the Lava Liquid hand cleaner. Works best with a little water and rinses easily.

 

Dawn on a foam dish scubber with the green pad on the other side, works good to get the tough grease off the fingers and arms with warm water but not to harsh.

 

That stuff with lanolin in it .... I also use the 5mm nitrile gloves now when I can

Or gloves with the rubber grippy surface on the palms

Ricky.

 

This

 

Aye

Ricky.

 

You mean I’m soaking in it?

Oh Madge…

 

Been using simple green for 25 years to clean my hands and still have all my skin and fingers.

 

The easiest way to clean your hands is to wear nitrile gloves. I used to never wear gloves unless welding or cutting, but the thought of everything I come in contact with everything at work getting into my bloodstream through my skin has convinced me to wear gloves. How many times have you grabbed a can of Brakleen and hosed off a part or tool? That Brakleen destroys my skin and does nasty shit inside our bodies.

 

I use a squirt of Dawn dish soap along with a squirt of Gojo. Works better than 3 squirts of either one by itself.

 

Here of late I've been grabbing plastic gloves to cover the cuts I've collected.
When I started out, we used this nasty stuff called Pax-Lano-Sav.
Clean hands but no fun pumping gas in the freezin cold.
My wife, a former nurse, fixed me up with this Idea.
If planning on being out in the cold, do not wash the backs of your hands.
Palms and fingers only.
In high school kids would avoid me for several reasons one of which was the state of my grease stained scabbed up hands. ( work boots, and sleeping during class did not help either )

 

Been using this stuff for 50 years! My hands are still as soft as a baby's bottom........well, maybe not that soft.....but they're clean! Wal-Mart sells it cheap and it lasts a long time.

 

My dad taught me that one about 70 years ago.... Still use it sometimes....

LynnW

 

Can't beat shampoo, works like a hot damn.

 

I use a spray bottle of Simple Green when I am out in the country with no running water. Spray on hands, rub hands, then use Simple Green, spraying it on for a rinse.

 

You wash your dishes in the shower? Now THAT'S water conservation!

 

Thanks for the tip, and.... uh..... thanks but no, I won't be coming over for a backyard cookout.

 

The first shop I ever worked in as a mechanic they just had a large box of Tide in the wash room. That stuff was hard on the hands though.

When I was going to auto mechanics trade school I worked nights in a french fry and frozen food plant. That was back in the days before they made you wear gloves and we had to weigh the little boxes of french fries that some stores had in the 60's put fries in or take them out of the box to get the right weight. My hands were spotless at the end of the night on that line.

 

Fried chicken and Oranges.......

Or IF you must use a real cleaner, I use Boraxo in this (I just picked up another one for $5 last swapmeet).

 

my father in law used to do this, - so I followed suit, some 40 plus years ago. After some years we both lost the natural antibodies on our skin and had (for him) and I still have, constant infections and skin problems especially around the finger nails.
Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, but as with anything, your results may vary, - probably best to do your own research.
Soap or specialist hand cleaners are cheap compared to the pain, - but I must admit, today’s concentrated laundry detergents are the best cleaners of stubborn dirt/grease.

like many others, I now wear nitrile (milking) gloves when necessary.

 

Another thing that works if you have it available, is the OTHER "pipe lube", used to help assemble big gasketed water main pipes. It is just thick gel soap, and works well as hand cleaner, I still have some left after retiring, in quart tubs. Also works very well as tire soap for mounting tires, slippery schidt.
For the fingernails, I just keep an old toothbrush in the shower- just drag your nails across the soap bar and hit them with the brush to get the grease n grime out

 

Hello,

Simple Green is good for lots of cleaning applications. But, it does leave a soapy smell on your hands. One squirt of Purell will get rid of the soapy smell and purify your hands for the rest of the normal day. So, if you don't mind the aroma of Simple Green, it does get things clean. Dawn Dish Detergent in orange or dark blue is also an excellent cleaner, but, it too leaves a soapy smell. Minimal, but still a residue.

One year, I was an Amway sales person. Our personal favorite was the famous Amway L.O.C. Liquid Organic Cleaner.
This stuff is like Dawn, before Dawn hit the market with a flourish and plumbers in various areas recommended using Dawn for a wide range of cleaning stuff, including hands. The plumbers are known for dirty hands, but a dab of Amway stuff cleaned even the dirtiest of hands, including under the nails. Now, they recommend Dawn blue or orange detergent to do the same thing, cleans counters, smooth porcelain and dainty hands.

Back then, as a salesman, it was hard to convince plumbers and auto mechanics to change over, despite the free samples of the ingenious L.O.C. product. As their hands became clean as soon as the small drops of LOC were on them, it cleaned like magic. Some even put it on a shop towel and wiped parts down. The results were amazing, but it was hard to get them away from a 55 gallon of petroleum based hand cleaner sitting in the corner of the workspace. Even though I mentioned the minimal smell of LOC versus the gasoline smell of the stuff coming out of the 5 gallon drum.

Before I gave up on this form of sales, I gave my mom a case of LOC to give out to her friends. When my mom used to prepare dinners with fresh fish, handling the fish was part of the whole process. The grip on the fillet made cutting with the sharp knife easier. But, the hands smelled like fish afterwards. She used Green Comet to attack the fish smell, but it still lingered. Plus, the Green Comet did not always treat hands nicely. It was the same thing with Ajax cleaner.

So, she had enough of the LOC to always clean her hands when handling fresh fish and other items. If and when she went out to the regular garage and oil or some product on her hands, she immediately pumped out some LOC to clean her hands of the residue she picked up. It was the only cleaner to get rid of fish smell, oil/gas smell and clean at the same time. The great thing was it treated dainty hands like a rare jewel. YRMV

Jnaki

We threw away the Goop and Lava Soap along with other petroleum based cleaners. Now, our hands were soft and clean with no after cleaning soapy smell or odor. It is safe for kids to use and it does get oil off of rags and some parts. We used this exclusively and when our feet got some oil/tar on them in Santa Barbara, this Amway product cleaned them off instantly.

The odd thin was, when told the mechanics were using gasoline products to clean oil and tar, they were mad at me for trying to change something they have been using for many years. They always smelled of gas and oil. That was a fact.

So, what do we use for current hand cleaners? Well, we still have a couple of bottles of L.O.C. cleaner, but the bad thing is you have to contact an Amway dealer to get the stuff. It became such a hassle that we stopped years ago. (although when our granddaughter was little, we had a bottle of LOC and she used that to clean her hands, as it was safe for everyone. ) We also use Simple Green, but use Purell as a finish coat to get the good smell of being clean and safe. It is a good cleaner combination during these pandemic times.

 

WORX is amazing stuff , a tub lasts years at home .

WURTH makes a really good gritty cleaner that does not dry out your hands


SNAP is another good one , used by the railway companies here , a buddy used to get it from his dad was awesome.

diesel and saw dust works great for taking grime off your hands , but obviously not very healthy .


@Zuffen my wife says to me all the time , “ I know your trying to be romantic , but it feels like I’m getting mauled by a bear “

 

.. depends in which side of the finger you are on..

 

I have some free sample bottles of WORX, it's pretty good and can go into my dispenser. The best of the new cleaners I've used is Kresto, but it's pricey. I use gloves at work and only on greasy stuff at home (Costco 2 pack exam gloves). BTW it's looks like maybe they discontinued Boraxo ???.

 

The trick is to keep your hands clean all the time. It makes the next clean up easier and more thorough. I worked with plenty of guys who went to bed with dirty hands and it showed. I use Goop at home and a Summit hand cleaner that works well.