Clean hands

I have always found anything ending with "ega" totally detrimental to my skin! The best one for me at the moment is a Dutch product called Dreunex. Rub the abrasive loaded cream into your skin before adding warm water to wash your hands. Gets all the crap of my hands while leaving me with nice skin left behind.

-- Dave Croft Warrington

Does _anyone_ buy their own gloves ? 8-)

Past tense, wooden boats as well as girlfriends ;-( . The last big wooden boatbuilding job I did was just about the same time that I met my wife (18 years ago).

Cheers Tim

Well, well, I'd never have thought there were so many variations on washing up at the end of a grubby day. I usually use cold water, although hot does shift the grime quicker as it opens the pores and the sweat then drives out the dirt wedged inside them.

Personally, I use Fairy in whatever flavour Hazel has currently propping up the kitchen house plants. A quick rinse with the first splodge and then the second dose onto a short spined nail brush and a proper scrub all over will see off almost anything. This I follow up with toilet soap (Dove, currently I think) and a dry on the nearest towel. Then - most importantly - a layer of decent hand cream, rubbed well in whilst the hands are still damp. I don't wash up properly for lunch, say, only a quick wash off with Fairy to remove the loose oil etc. Ingrained stuff can wait til later.

However, oil that's been in a sump for a l-o-n-g time will often leave black in the skin and I've found the same as others that sugar or sawdust will help.

I used green Swarfega every day without incident for the better part of forty years. The only reason I don't use it now is that it's one more thing to clutter the worktop and my hands are not exposed to the workshop more than perhaps three days a week.

Acids and caustic solutions may not suit all skin types and although my integument is fairly dense (ask any of my political opponents!) I'd not risk it myself ...

Regards,

Kim

I buy latex surgical gloves by the hundred pairs when I am dealing with lots of epoxy resin work. I have also bought other types from the local DIY shop which last quite a long time. There is a lot of work, though, that I will do without using gloves.

What about the right behind??

(grabs coat, RUNS LIKE $HIT OUT OF THE DOOR!)

Brian L Dominic

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Not to mention lumps on the testicles

AJH

No, that's just _any_ oily handwashing in the kitchen sink.

Is it? I thought mineral oils could cause dermatitis but it was oil containing pics that caused cancers. I believe the one I mentioned was the first recognised industrial cancer, though I probably picked up on it from someone like Huge on d-i-y.

AJH

Well whenever I washed my hands in the clean sink, I got lumps ! Same if I used the clean towels too.

Sorry Andy I had not realised you suffered a violent childhood ;-)

AJH