Best Handcleaner ?

[marz68]

simple green
gojo
last solution gas

[FormerMarine1981]

Fast Orange is what I normally use. Simple green is good too. I used to work with glass blast media when I was in the Corps and someone told me to try this, I thought they were pulling my leg but it worked. He mixed glass beads and a little fast orange and scrubbed his hands with that. Worked great and No cuts and even got off turbine soot.

[bigredball90]

cleaner and degreaser formula 88 or some form of gojo

[BobbyFord]

Gas is a little rough on the skins natural emollients. Not to mention, girls don't like the smell of it...

[Redcap]

Gas is a little rough on the skins natural emollients. Not to mention, girls don't like the smell of it...

Every once in a long while, you can find a girl that doesn't mind the smell.

I'm foolin' around with one of those rare girls right now.  

[fordman]

fast orange is good. lately. i have been just wiping the real grease onto my grease rags and then a little soap finishes it off. but then i can get into stuff that is harder to take off and i use fast orange. other times when you have tar or other gooy stuff gas or diesel and wd40 work very well for that.

[two-bit]

Scotchbrite pad (green) and Irish spring bar soap.
I get clean, and smell good.
Your skin gets a little red from the scotchbrite, but you get used to it.

Two-bit

[zakt]

dawn dish soap for me,,,

[fitzwell]

Joes... pink, smells like bubble gum. Works like a champ. Used to be a product here locally called "Tuff Scrub". Yellow, granular stuff that worked really well. Haven't seen it in a number of years.

[flyboy71]

Scotchbrite pad (green) and Irish spring bar soap.
I get clean, and smell good.
Your skin gets a little red from the scotchbrite, but you get used to it.

Two-bit

One step above that and you might as well just do a skin graft.  

[cbfomoco]

ZEP Hand cleaner is really good stuff. I like the orange the best. I buy it in gallon jugs from Advance Auto out of there in the back commercial stuff. ( I work there so I know that they have it) Somewhere else might as well. It will also soften your hands as well. Also Shampoo works as well fairly good and Dish soap. But I really like the ZEP. A quick search and I cant seem to find a picture. I think I paid like 12 bucks for the gal. It is a good deal and works well.

[rjewkes]

When I worked for Bingham sand and gravel, they had a red hand cleaner called mules head it came  in a 32 ounce container.  Only problem I personally had with it was a day like any other cleaning chemicals.

[crazyhorse]

after using a good  hand cleaner , i use dawn dish detergent WITH ODOR EATER , leaves my hands smelling good.  

[robroy]

Good evening!

As a teenager I'd work on a car from time to time with my father's guidance.  And getting our hands deeply greasy and dirty was part of the deal.  Then with the job complete, it was like a big ritual at the kitchen sink (we lived there alone) getting our hands clean!  

I remember copious rivers of black, sudsy water rolling down the drain.  And fat globs of black suds splatting in the sink like albatross droppings.  Or like a rabid dog with a mouthful of chewing tobacco, dangling by its tail over a polar bear rug.

One kind of soap I remember liking was Boraxo.  It's a rough, dry hand soap that comes in a parmesan cheese carton.

For some reason the original container it came in had usually been discarded and it lived in a brown glass cup.  And there were often some dead flies in there on their backs, their legs bent grotesquely in the air.  

Then later I started working on cars on my own, and a guy in the parts store recommended that I try the Nitrile gloves.  After one try I was completely sold.  That was six or seven years ago.  

Ever since then, I haven't needed to wash deeply soiled hands even once, and I've done plenty of nasty work on cars.  Not even once!  

There's something remarkably satisfying about peeling off nitrile gloves that were coated with gear oil, or gasoline, or whatever.  And under the gloves your hands are immaculate.  They don't even smell bad!  And yes I still have to test that, especially when I've handled gasoline.

Another major benefit offered by the gloves (and one that I enjoy every day), is being able to quickly oscillate between having nasty hands and clean hands, then back to nasty hands.  It seems so common that I'll need to get grease on my hands, then seconds later I need immaculate hands, then back to something nasty.  Like when I'm working on brakes, for example.  Or when I'm trying to take photos of my work to post here!

Robroy

[DuckRyder]

This is the best stuff I've found:



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