Elbow Grease

[pondy]

Whatever chemicals they use, its good for washing off crayon when the kids draw on the walls

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

On a serious note, I just detest using gloves. Can never get on with them.

You should see my mates hands....they are trashed. Problem is with skin problems once they start they don't stop....just get worse and they seem to spread too.

I use the nitrile powder free ones and they're OK....the latex stretchy ones that break every time you try to put them on are totally pants and they seem to make my hands sweat too!

 

[Pete.]

I suffer from contact dermatitis so use gloves for everything (this annoys folk when I am using rotating equipment ) but if I don't then my hands become very sore indeed!
Washing up liquid if used neat just cracks my skin up but there is a warning message on the bottle

I've been wearing gloves with rotating equipment for 30 years. Just make sure that the rotation has stopped before you touch it

 

[Bsmith]

So, what is the best hand cleaner? I have years of ground in dirt that nothing I found so far will clean.

 

[DAPPH]

Sound advice, but..., where's the fun in safety. Parm may well be giving me the dead-eye now, but if you're gonna go, do it in style.

Besides, as I said to someone recently: I survived twenty odd years of marriage; I'm obviously invincible.

On a serious note, I just detest using gloves. Can never get on with them.

Seriously ..
Detesting wearing gloves is fine ...... now put the bloody things on learn to work whilst wearing them & stop being a c**t to yourself & family .

One of my associates is now approaching the very pain filled end of his life due to cancers & kidney problems as well as having had a urine tract ulceration problem for several very pain filled years It's not curable he's just being treated with steroids , pain management meds & a dozen or more meds for other problems the industrial chemicals have brought on . It's due to him not using nitrile protective gloves whilst he cleaned & polished dies & moulds for 35 or so years .

 

[MattF]

& stop being a c**t to yourself & family .

Slight flaw in your argument, there, & the answer's still no.

 

[DAPPH]

So, what is the best hand cleaner? I have years of ground in dirt that nothing I found so far will clean.

Working on the Old Thorneycroft Aighty Antar Tank Transporters was perhaps the muckiest oiliest gungy jobs I've ever done
Beside replacing the a worn out diesel engine ( piston through the crankcase ) of the night soil truck it also had a seriously blowing exhaust manifold job done in 40 oC in the middle of a sand area in the near middle east .That took a couple of days to get the soot out my skin as nitrile rubber gloves weren't available in those days.

This is a tried and tested way of looking after your skin/hands
Put a prophalatic ( sp?) barrier cream on your hands before starting work ( Attrixo ? work it in well and almost go hard before you start the mucky work . re do it each time you've washed your hands .

Hand care / hygiene is particularly important at meal times & especially if you're going to go to the toilet .Having washed your hands first off before you do the business .. scrotal dermatitis & cancer round your elastic band from not washing your oily hands & going to the toilet is something horrific that I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy .

To clean them rub a teaspoon Rozelex waterless or Swarfega well in on your hands , it will dilute the oily grease bound muck on your skin , gently wipe the majority of it off with a soft clean rag then use a a simple un perfumed white soap with a bit of warm to get a slight lather on your hands , now sprinkle about 2/3 of a heaped teaspoon of Borax powder on your hands & work it in well to wash the muck off , rewash in just the clean soap , rinse well dry well and put on a lanolin based hand cream to keep them conditioned .

 

[DAPPH]

Slight flaw in your argument, there, & the answer's still no.

Bags I first dibbs on your stuff when you shuffle off this mortal coil early then Matt .

 

[MattF]

Bags I first dibbs on your stuff when you shuffle off this mortal coil early then Matt .

I won't give a chuff what happens to my stuff when I'm dead, & I'll go when it's my time.

 

[Shox Dr]

So, what is the best hand cleaner? I have years of ground in dirt that nothing I found so far will clean.

Bleach. Im not joking either. Put a cap full in the hotest water you can stand. Let them soak while giving them a good scrub.
You'll have clean hands in no time.

It goes without say (does it) CAUTION must be used.

 

[MattF]

It goes without say (does it) CAUTION must be used.

If his hands are coming up like that from using relatively mild detergents, bleach will probably play havoc with his skin. Plus you can't get rid of the smell for ages. Does work well though.

 

[Shox Dr]

If his hands are coming up like that from using relatively mild detergents, bleach will probably play havoc with his skin. Plus you can't get rid of the smell for ages. Does work well though.

I forgotten it was the OP asking the question

 

[Pete.]

So, what is the best hand cleaner? I have years of ground in dirt that nothing I found so far will clean.

Rath's PR88. Its actually a protection cream but it also makes for a fantastic hand cleaner (and restores your skin as you do it). Nice marzipan smell to it too.

Wonderful stuff.

 

[Kram]

Barrier creams always smell of marzipan, but they taste foul. The reason I use hand cream instead, barrier stuff is hard in the tube and is far too much effort to squeeze out.

2 days stubble and plain soap will shift anything. There is a balance between respitory protection of filter masks and the ability clean hands.

 

[Mick Annick]

I wear gloves for everything outside and in the workshop now - 6 years of being a mechanic in the 70’s did for my skin and anything other than water will now irritate my hands and start them cracking up. Hygiene was a joke back then - the workshop tea boy would put out a bucket of hot water before each break, tough luck if you were last to the trough. We did get barrier cream which helped, but putting diesel soaked hands into my trouser pockets to fish stuff out left me with some nasty rashes...

 

[Melvyn Best]

Bloody Hell lucky person. I’m investigating an accident where a 21 year old fell into a cold “trike” tank

His funeral was a couple of weeks ago

There was an electroplating company in Cambridge where one of the staff had climbed into some sort of chemical tank to clean it one weekend with similar results

 

[Bsmith]

Rath's PR88. Its actually a protection cream but it also makes for a fantastic hand cleaner (and restores your skin as you do it). Nice marzipan smell to it too.

Wonderful stuff.

I litre of Raths PR88 ordered.

 

[bricol]

Rath's PR88. Its actually a protection cream but it also makes for a fantastic hand cleaner (and restores your skin as you do it). Nice marzipan smell to it too.

Wonderful stuff.

I bought some - and then some more in-case I run out.

Its got to be the best barrier cream I've used in 34 yrs of playing with cars, and 30 yrs of being employed in engineering. Even ordinary hand soap gets off the sort of apparently in-grained dirt, grease, oil etc that in the past would still leave a good trace of it stuck in your skin.

Wonderful stuff indeed.

 

[brightspark]

Thanks Parm, I just imagined without reading the instructions that any wash up liquid would be ok for cleaning hands. Suppose it's ok for the housewife when just a squirt is used in a sink full of water. Well, lesson learned, that's quite dam sore at the moment.

even washing up liquids bad for hands it dries the skin out and removes the natural oils

 

[DAPPH]

I wear gloves for everything outside and in the workshop now - 6 years of being a mechanic in the 70’s did for my skin and anything other than water will now irritate my hands and start them cracking up. Hygiene was a joke back then - the workshop tea boy would put out a bucket of hot water before each break, tough luck if you were last to the trough. We did get barrier cream which helped, but putting diesel soaked hands into my trouser pockets to fish stuff out left me with some nasty rashes...

After being appointed the HSE man for our workshop & attending three days at HSE HQ near Earls court , we had a special session dedicated to hygiene & prophalatic use .
Your lucky you didn't end up with scrotal and anal dermatitis .. look at some pictures of those who got it from oily contact via hands ,pockets & oil contaminated clothing. .