Cleaning Your Hands

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grumpyoldgit

Über Member
Location
Surrey
In an emergency,clean engine oil & sand,followed by ordinary soap.For work I get tubs of soft soap & sawdust,cant remember the name,but it works.
 

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
table salt & washing up liquid for me.
 

Custom24

Über Member
Location
Oxfordshire
Works brilliantly on wasp stings. I disturbed a nest a couple of years ago and got stung twice in the mouth. Lips and tongue swelling like mad, getting panicky, googled it and sprayed wd40 in my gob. Tasted disgusting but stopped the swelling and saved a dash to the A&E.
You are joking, right? Did you read the msds PDF?

This product is an aspiration hazard. If swallowed, can enter the lungs and may cause chemical pneumonitis, severe lung damage and death.
 

Rezillo

TwoSheds
Location
Suffolk
This stuff from Lidl is brilliant, dirt cheap, doesn't dry out and crack your skin and you only use a small amount at a time.

Unfortunately, it is not a regular stock item at Lidl and I haven't seen it for quite a while. I did come across a facebook response to a question on what had happened to it this year, which was that it hadn't been stopped and to keep checking their website special offers for it.
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marzjennings

Legendary Member
WD40 has always worked for me, a quick squirt to get all the oil and grease moving and then a squirt with dishwashing liguid to wash off the combined WD40 oily scum off the hands.
 

Custom24

Über Member
Location
Oxfordshire
Try head and shoulders... Or any shampoo.

Just wash your hair after bike maintenance if you dont think it works!
Not saying shampoo doesn't work, but hair itself is an excellent absorber of oil, which might explain your clean hands afterwards. Hair is used in oil spillages at sea to clean up.
 
wd40 good for breaking down tar-ish deposits. Neat Fairy adding water once worked in a little. Washing powder works too as does paint thinner. Best to stick to any of the proprietary hand cleaners, tho' in theory, Fairy should be best for the skin going by the sales blurb...its actually a beauty treatment don't listen when the missus complains about washing the dishes, we men no better ;)
 

mrandmrspoves

Middle aged bald git.
Location
Narfuk
Surprised no one has mentioned barrier cream. A good dry work barrier applied before the job makes cleaning hands dead easy. I always make sure to work it well into my cuticles and under my nails. Greasy hands just don't look good on a nurse.
 

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
Location
County Durham
Surprised no one has mentioned barrier cream. A good dry work barrier applied before the job makes cleaning hands dead easy. I always make sure to work it well into my cuticles and under my nails. Greasy hands just don't look good on a nurse.
+1 for barrier cream, then clean up with a home made mix of sharp sand and hand-wash (Tesco's own moisturising hand wash, 38p for 500ml) that I keep in an old margerine tub. A little bit goes a long way.
 

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