Hand cleaning tip

[scouting]

I just keep a bowl of acetone handy, works like a charm. Just be careful, sometimes I forget to put out my cigarette...

I know I should start using the gloves, just not quite prepared for the ration of s#&t I know I'll receive. But brakecleaner is starting to take a toll on the paws.

 

[santagary]

Clean off the majority with Go Jo and then offer to wash your wife's hair over the kitchen sink or...preferably...take a shower with her and wash it there!

 

[wedge40]

Once you get the first couple of layers off the best way to clean deep dirt is ... wash dishes.

How does running the dish washer clean your hands?

Couldn't resist. This coming from someone who's never had a dishwash.

 

[mrodgers]

How does running the dish washer clean your hands?

Couldn't resist. This coming from someone who's never had a dishwash.

Dagnabit, you beat me by about 5 minutes....

I use whatever bathroom I happen to be near at work. This one has Boraxo, that one has GoJo. That one over there has some kind of Soy degreaser soap. I don't get too greasy at work. I mostly play with the clean equipment. It's the molding presses that I rarely run that everything is covered in hydraulic oil. I mostly get dirty with powdered surfactants which washes off with the normal crappy soap we have in all the bathrooms/sinks.

At home working on the car, it's dawn dish soap.

 

[coolreed]

Get a pumice/lava stone. You will be amazed how well it cleans your hands. Especially when you have paint and hard to remove thingeze on your hands/arms. You can either get a manufatured one at the beauty supply house or a natural one.

 

[driver]

I use 20 Mule Team Borax washing powder and ordinary hand soap, liquid Ivory seems to be the best. I also second the method of hair washing, with or without company.

 

[Cword]

My hands get pretty wet in latex or nitrile gloves,so I opt for a no glove alternative most days, Blue Magic Invisible Glove
I keep a tube on the bench and rub a dab into my hands before starting work.

 

[mrodgers]

I also second the method of hair washing, with or without company.

What, you invite your gearhead buddies in the shower with you to wash your wife's hair?

 

[IONH]

My hands get pretty wet in latex or nitrile gloves,so I opt for a no glove alternative most days, Blue Magic Invisible Glove
I keep a tube on the bench and rub a dab into my hands before starting work.

I hear that with sweating in the gloves. Only happens in the summer time though for me. The first pair I put on is my usual Large, then every one after is an Extra Large because my hands are moist and I can't easily get the Large on again.

 

[RBailey]

Another thing to consider about washing your hands is technique.

If you have ever seen a doctor do it they have a step by step process. I found the rather than just "washing" my hands if I work methodically it makes a big difference.

 

[ascalise]

I am very surprised that no one here has mentioned the use of The Worx hand cleaner. I've tried everything and this is bar none the best hand cleaner i have ever used. The stuff that comes in the orange bottle, fast orange or gojo is absolutely worthless. My local walmart stores sell small bottles of the Worx for just under $6. Some tool trucks sell it as well in larger containers.

 

[IONH]

Another thing to consider about washing your hands is technique.

If you have ever seen a doctor do it they have a step by step process. I found the rather than just "washing" my hands if I work methodically it makes a big difference.

When my hands are extremely grimey, I do the same. Start in one spot and keep moving, usually with the orange pumice stuff. I don't put any water on my hands until I am reasonably certain they will be clean. Once there's water on my skin, the orange stuff seems to fall off and I have to fight with it.

 

[mattwgrizwald]

I like Boraxo soap. It works kind of like pumice soaps. I've never found it in the stores though, so you'll probably have to special order it.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...raxo+powdered+hand+soap&sprefix=borax,aps,533

 

[CNGsaves]

I like goop. Without the grit in it.

+1 for Goop. I keep one container in the garage and another inside house.

While painting house last year getting paint and caulking all over hands, it worked great and only cost like $1.25 per container. Had the outside Goop can next to hose and was able to wash hands clean outside without every dragging dirty hands inside.

Another product that's great is Goo-Gone but more expensive.

 

[Mr. Tool]

Great...! But it's not for some hands...I prefer nitrile gloves...quicker and easier...

....plain and simple process, after use just toss and wash hands with regular soap.

 

[danfromsyr]

Man all you guys and your hands in a myriad of chemicals and solvents
just too rough for my sensative skin..

I've found that the old school Boraxo "powdered and soap" is not only easy on muy skin, but quite effective at removing grease and oil and makingme pink again.
added plus is it's actually quite cheap.. I buy the 5# box for $10 and use retired grated cheese container to dispense it in the laundry sink..
http://www.staples.com/Dial-Boraxo-Powdered-Original-Hand-Soap-5-lb/product_638579

they have a heavy duty version as well. if that's your thing..
but just being smart when wrenching is usually enough to keep moderately clean..
I'm always shocked at the grease monkeys I see at the junkyard who literally roll around in it all, coming out like a tarbaby.
I pull engines and transmissions too, but there's little reason to be unskilled or gross about it... or so I'd think