grubby hand cleanser?

[Seadog]

It's the micro-beads that don't sound too good.

 

[pawsnizzy]

Fast Orange

 

[Melvyn Best]

I still have about a litre of the old Manista for the rare occasions I have greasy hands, must have had it 5 years . Yet another good thing about retirement, not having grease ingrained hands!

 

[123hotchef]

most are now made for stuff that fish dont eat ect

 

[Bornfree]

I still have about a litre of the old Manista for the rare occasions I have greasy hands, must have had it 5 years . Yet another good thing about retirement, not having grease ingrained hands!

15 years ago I had a week's holiday in Cyprus and I swam in the sea every day I've never had hands that clean. I felt like an office worker.

 

[Shedendman]

Cheap Tesco cream cleaner(cif/jif whatever) cheap washing up liquid,again Tesco, some anti bac stuff,all mixed up,bobs your uncle

 

[Shedendman]

Washing powder with washing up liquid...

Conveniently they seem to live together under the sink

Nice sting if you've got a cut in the hand/fingers

 

[masleeve]

Manista was my go to , but my tub has run out , found out my mrs was using it as exfoliator as it was cheaper than the beauty stuff . I think it is using bamboo as the abrasive these days now the polybeads are banned.
I do wear gloves but invariably i get tears in them. So baby oil and sugar work well to get the ingrained dirt out with the bonus of leaving your hands soft . In these days of alcohol hand sanitiser anything that keeps my paws from having the texture of sandpaper is welcome.

 

[johnakay]

bought a small tub of manista with volcanic glass beads in.
thanks for the info.

 

[Alan Reynolds]

margerine

I can't believe it's not butter!

 

[Alan Reynolds]

Hate the green Swarfega, could even taste it after washing my hands, went over to Manista, that’s good. Now using orange Swarfega, buy it in a 5 litre can with a pump from Costco, that’s good as well, but cheaper than Manista. If you have a Costco card, or know someone that can get it for you, it‘s about half the price of anywhere else.

Edit, I think the orange Swarfega has some sort of grain bits so it degrades now.

Agree with that. I decant it into a liquid soap pump bottle so that you don't dispense more than you need, which happens with the Swarfega pump.
A good nail brush is a great help. I use a Vikan.

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[Alan Reynolds]

In the good old days, we used soft soap and sand, worked a treat. Also Resalex? rubbed well into your hands before work.

Rozalex. Still available.

 

[northwest]

The best I have used is from Wurth. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-...MIgrH_jpbM7wIVit1RCh2VBAYwEAQYBCABEgLy_vD_BwE

Bob

Been trying to use barrier cream of late. This is good stuff!

Pardon our interruption...

Without wanting to sound like an arrogant cock I have tried them all. Everything.

The last thing you want to use is washing up liquid. Don't believe me? Not a problem, but you will remember those words when it DOES become a problem.

The two posts above have all the answers you need. I put the PR-88 on almost religiously now and yes, I know it can be sticky, that wears off. Coupled with the Wurth hand cleaner Bob mentioned above, my hands are now clean and not full of cuts that will not heal. If you think you are immune, you are not. Using proprietary detergents to clean your hands WILL bite you in the ass. Not right away, it took years to catch me out, but it will.

 

[MoreWellie]

Now using orange Swarfega, buy it in a 5 litre can with a pump from Costco

+1, good stuff for oil, grease, paint
natural cornmeal for the gritty bits so don't worry about filling the oceans with plastic, haven't spent much time worrying about corn growing on the ocean floor

 

[defender dan]

Wd40 does work really well at shifting a great deal of oil/grease wich I then use the orange Swarfega from Costco to remove the rest.

 

[rory1]

Buster extra. Engineers hand cleaner.

 

[RWD3M]

Another +1 for Manista.

I get it delivered at about £10 for a 3 ltr tub.

 

[Turbo]

I buy the stuff in Lidl when its in (in stores over here this week). It's really good at removing everything from oil to paint, easy on the skin & has fine sawdust as the abrasive.

Best stuff I've ever used is called Bardahl hand cleaner.
https://www.gasweld.ie/product/bardahl-hand-cleaner/

It uses pumice as the abrasive & its the best thing to remove ground in dirt. It works very well without water & wipes off with paper towel leaving no residue. It's not the cheapest so the tub I have is only used on special occasions!

 

[Farside]

I blagged some barrier cream from work years ago and I'm slowly coming to the end of the container. Unfortunately I never found the make of it.
When it runs out I've got a couple of litres of replacement lined up, and just hope they're as good.
For cleaning the muck off the barrier cream makes Aldi pump soap work really well, as it's not ingrained the way it would be without the barrier.

I have used clean engine oil and sugar before or petrol/thinners on a rag - when desparate.

For a while I did that, until the industrial chemist in the unit next door cautioned me that skin cancer was a very real risk. That was 40 years ago and I've never done it since, but over the years I've been exposed to all sorts of muck without the benefit of barrier cream, so who knows how much at risk I am. It's all very opaque.

 

[premmington]

I blagged some barrier cream from work years ago and I'm slowly coming to the end of the container. Unfortunately I never found the make of it.
When it runs out I've got a couple of litres of replacement lined up, and just hope they're as good.
For cleaning the muck off the barrier cream makes Aldi pump soap work really well, as it's not ingrained the way it would be without the barrier.

For a while I did that, until the industrial chemist in the unit next door cautioned me that skin cancer was a very real risk. That was 40 years ago and I've never done it since, but over the years I've been exposed to all sorts of muck without the benefit of barrier cream, so who knows how much at risk I am. It's all very opaque.

I do think barrier cream is the answer! It is not that "trendy with young mechanics" thou...