DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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Well that's all good, then.
What do you clean your Hands with?
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Well that's all good, then.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
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- On the edge of reality
Another Swarfega user here. Pump dispenser from Aldi is the cheapest I have found locally.
Rusty Nails
We remember
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- Living in the slow lane
You can often get bags of coffee grounds free from coffee shops. Free and handy for the compost bin as well as cleaning hands.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Ah yes. Wheat germ loaf.
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
Washing up liquid to get the thick of it off, then for brownie points do the washing up too! 
Lovely clean hands.
Lovely clean hands.
I have eczema on my hands which is aggravated by soap and detergent and so cannot use almost everything mentioned in this thread. When I worked in a factory, my doctor told me not to use barrier cream because I wouldn't be able to use anything strong enough to wash it off (I get cracking and bleeding palms when I use strong/"ordinary" detergents or soaps). I have to use a moisturiser (QV cream) several times daily and I find that this acts almost like a barrier cream and makes hand-washing easier (QV cream seems pretty good at shifting oily muck off the skin too). I resort to QV cream and Carex hand-wash - occasionally helped with a nailbrush.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
When Swarfega is banned, or when you're too lazy to go to the shops, a dash of washing up liquid and a teaspoon of sugar make an excellent substitute.
Or just glove up like what I does.
Or just glove up like what I does.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
There are things you can't do wearing gloves. Try using a power screwdriver when gluing something up. The glove fingers get stuck to the chuck and get punctured instantly. I'll stay with the microbeads for now.
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
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Gloves? Pah!
I shove my hands down the throat of a man eating tiger that hasn't been fed for 5 days and into its stomach where the acids burn away the grease. Then I put them into a furnace to dry off.
Other days its washing up liquid and a scrubbing brush.
I shove my hands down the throat of a man eating tiger that hasn't been fed for 5 days and into its stomach where the acids burn away the grease. Then I put them into a furnace to dry off.
Other days its washing up liquid and a scrubbing brush.
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Microbeads end up in places they didn't ought to be.
Bio D washing up liquid, and a nail brush does it for me.
Adding granulated sugar, or coffee grounds if you really feel the need for a scrub.
Petrochemicals such as swarfega, or fairy liquid are absorbed through the skin, and get into water courses - not so great.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I use gloves so I don’t need to use any products. Thwack. Ooh matron 
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
[QUOTE 5553514, member: 9609"]sometimes when I have been on farm work and I have stopped for my piece (dinner) when finnished I notice the fingers I have been eating with are nice and clean
joking aside, there have been times in the past when my hands are so bad with oils, greases and paints that I have given them a quick rinse with petrol or white spirit, it's a good cleaner. But I now learn apart from the obvious fire risk it is far from a wise idea, so don't now[/QUOTE]
I always reckon we probably evolved gut flora to cope with most of that 'natural durt'.
But then killed off that capacity to cope with dettol, and "Kills 99% of all known germs.. (Leaving the other 1% plus the unknowns to flourish unhindered?)
I do wash my hands, before lunch.. Sometimes.
But ya know, sometimes yr in a rush, and yr hungry..
Cast iron biome here I think, after a lifetime of living and working in utter filth
But its 'organic' filth, so therefore very healthy
joking aside, there have been times in the past when my hands are so bad with oils, greases and paints that I have given them a quick rinse with petrol or white spirit, it's a good cleaner. But I now learn apart from the obvious fire risk it is far from a wise idea, so don't now[/QUOTE]
I always reckon we probably evolved gut flora to cope with most of that 'natural durt'.
But then killed off that capacity to cope with dettol, and "Kills 99% of all known germs.. (Leaving the other 1% plus the unknowns to flourish unhindered?)
I do wash my hands, before lunch.. Sometimes.
But ya know, sometimes yr in a rush, and yr hungry..
Cast iron biome here I think, after a lifetime of living and working in utter filth
But its 'organic' filth, so therefore very healthy
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
I use gloves so I don’t need to use any products. Thwack. Ooh matron
But some jobs are just too fiddly, even for thin rubber gloves.
They get caught in things .
And hands can get overheated.
