Good cheap hand cleaner

[Mazz]

Any recommendations for cheap hand cleaners for cleaning up after messy oil jobs, either off the shelf or stuff you've made yourself.
Yeah I know, wear gloves right?
Thanks

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I just use Ajax spray, both for cleaning the bike, and for cleaning oil and grease off my hands. It doesn't seem to cause any skin irritations, and works quite well. (I don't know if you have Ajax spray in the UK?)

 

[Drago]

A dab of liquid hand soap with half a teaspoon of sugar.

 

[Reynard]

Yep this ^^^

A squirt of washing up liquid and a teaspoon of sugar. The washing up liquid deals with the oil and the sugar acts as a mild abrasive. Much better than Swarfega, and more environmentally friendly as no microplastics.

 

[slowmotion]

I still use Swarfega with microplastic grains from the very large container that I bought years ago.

 

[Big John]

Yep this ^^^

A squirt of washing up liquid and a teaspoon of sugar. The washing up liquid deals with the oil and the sugar acts as a mild abrasive. Much better than Swarfega, and more environmentally friendly as no microplastics.

^^^ This. However......after years of doing this, week in week out, I decided I'd had enough of scrubbing my hands almost until they bled. I bought my first box of disposable nitrile workshop gloves from Euro Car Parts a few years ago and I'll never go back to bare hands again. You can reuse the gloves basically until they form a hole, then throw them. A box of 100 gloves (50 pairs) last me about a year and I clean my bike three times a week. One ride = one cleaning session. I even build wheels with them on so touch and feel isn't compromised by wearing a glove.

 

[albion]

Wet wipes !

Always the first call.

 

[Reynard]

^^^ This. However......after years of doing this, week in week out, I decided I'd had enough of scrubbing my hands almost until they bled. I bought my first box of disposable nitrile workshop gloves from Euro Car Parts a few years ago and I'll never go back to bare hands again. You can reuse the gloves basically until they form a hole, then throw them. A box of 100 gloves (50 pairs) last me about a year and I clean my bike three times a week. One ride = one cleaning session. I even build wheels with them on so touch and feel isn't compromised by wearing a glove.

I do use gloves for the *really* mucky jobs, and keep a pair in the car for using at the petrol pumps and the like. But being a female of the rather petite persuasion, even the smallest gloves are too long in the fingers, which means that I lose dexterity as a result of the excess glovage. Which isn't great for fiddly tasks.