Cleaning Your Hands

[SWSteve]

I use Fairy Liquid (others are available) to clean my hands after cleaning down/oiling my bike. However this doesn't always seem to cut the mustard, my hands are still dark and it is still dirty in all of the creases in my hands. What do you use? I have cleaned my hands 3 times and they still look like I have just left the colliery

 

[Davidc]

Swarfega

followed by hand cream.

 

[4F]

Disposable gloves are your friend

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Size-Medium...1366299792&sr=1-10&keywords=disposable+gloves

 

[sickboyblue]

Add a bit of sugar to the fairy liquid.. Works as an abrasive cleaner, gets oil off no problems.

 

[ianrauk]

If I don't use disposable gloves then a bit of washing up liquid with a scotchbrite pad...just scrub away.

 

[hopless500]

I'd be curious to know too. For the 1st time in my life I have had to clean my bike 'properly', ie degrease and all that stuff. Right messy work and it's made my hands look like I'm still in the colliery....
Oh for the days when I was a kid (yeah, long long gone..) and my stepdad did that kind of thing for me

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Now't wrong with a bit of oil in the old creases.

 

[Cyclist33]

Now't wrong with a bit of oil in the old creases.

Trouble is, it gets all over anything else you clamp your hands around later...

I found the teflon lube/degreaser spray does a good job of getting oil off hands. Also, used v sparingly, muc-off.

 

[tyred]

These are the best hand cleaners I've tried so far.

Should be available from a motorfactors or decent hardware shop but not that cheap.

Otherwise, the Fairy liquid with sugar tip above works perfectly well but done repeatedly it will dry your skin out.

 

[coffeejo]

Swarfega

followed by hand cream.

+1.

 

[taximan]

I bake some bread, kneading the dough bring your hands up a treat

 

[RWright]

I use Dawn dishwashing liquid, I use it to get grease spots out of jerseys and riding shorts too.

 

[snorri]

Should be available from a motorfactors

Motorfactors?
Motorfactors you say?
Do you realise you are in a cycle forum?
Now get along to your chemist and buy some mouthwash.



(I've just been in the "It's on days like these" thread)

 

[hopless500]

I bake some bread, kneading the dough bring your hands up a treat

That's true. Does a good job of getting ingrained stuff out from under nails too Particularly effective with wholemeal flour (rougher than white)
Edit / wholemeal disguises additional 'flecks' nicely

 

[yello]

Swarfega here too.

I wear latex gloves a lot of the time but remove them for some tasks, or when my hands get sweaty!