Cleaning Hands in the cold

materthegreater said: View attachment 355194 I used Boraxo until they stopped making it. Haven't found a good substitute yet. Fast orange works well enough when there is no access to running water. Click to expand... That’s too funny. I see the 12oz containers on Amazon and EBay for $79.93. There must be a janitor with a stash trying to retire early . Every institutional and school bathroom from the 70’s to the late 90’s, man. The dispensers would clog up and leave a borax mountain underneath. You could scrub two layers of skin off everytime you washed. How many thousands of tons of that product produced over the last 1/2 century? The iconic, OG hand cleaner. RIP.

5 Pounder for $19.99 may be worth a try it if not you can use it to clean the house with https://a.co/d/4jOMkf9 materthegreater said: View attachment 355194 I used Boraxo until they stopped making it. Haven't found a good substitute yet. Fast orange works well enough when there is no access to running water. Click to expand...

smifwal said: 5 Pounder for $19.99 may be worth a try it if not you can use it to clean the house with https://a.co/d/4jOMkf9 Click to expand... That's just borax. Good for killing ants but doesn't have the fine soaps that Boraxo has (had).

Coaldust said: That’s too funny. I see the 12oz containers on Amazon and EBay for $79.93. There must be a janitor with a stash trying to retire early . Every institutional and school bathroom from the 70’s to the late 90’s, man. The dispensers would clog up and leave a borax mountain underneath. You could scrub two layers of skin off everytime you washed. How many thousands of tons of that product produced over the last 1/2 century? The iconic, OG hand cleaner. RIP. Click to expand... Hand cleaner and brazing flux! I have leather gloves for cold work and some ugly ass orange urethane clad gloves for doing stuff in the wet, my friend who delivers oil loves them, well they're warm dry and grippy. Do my best to keep my hands dry in the winter. My pop used to get cracking/bleeding hands all the time, his friend the farmer brought him some ointment called bag balm, it smelled weird but it worked a treat, after a week pops hands started to heal up right nice. He'd use it once or twice a day.

Fast orange and gojo won’t even lift the first layer of grime off my hands. On the other hand, I’ve seen guys wash up with brakleen. I do my best to minimize that stuff touching my skin.

Mike L said: On the other hand, I’ve seen guys wash up with brakleen. I do my best to minimize that stuff touching my skin. Click to expand... Good call on keeping that stuff off your skin, had science teacher in school that soaked pig fat in brake clean, it was not good

Mike L said: Fast orange and gojo won’t even lift the first layer of grime off my hands. On the other hand, I’ve seen guys wash up with brakleen. I do my best to minimize that stuff touching my skin. Click to expand... Mix up a small batch of mortar or concrete. My hands are never cleaner than after doing concrete work.

Better follow that with some lotion or your hands will look like mine in post #14

Power kleen will help prevent the cracking

fast_st said: Hand cleaner and brazing flux! I have leather gloves for cold work and some ugly ass orange urethane clad gloves for doing stuff in the wet, my friend who delivers oil loves them, well they're warm dry and grippy. Do my best to keep my hands dry in the winter. My pop used to get cracking/bleeding hands all the time, his friend the farmer brought him some ointment called bag balm, it smelled weird but it worked a treat, after a week pops hands started to heal up right nice. He'd use it once or twice a day. Click to expand... I have some i used for brazing flux. Was the bag balm for cow udders ?

I've been using GoJo Supro Max blue label for several years now, does a decent job cleaning grease/oil from your hands, the grit in it is ground walnut shells, much easier on your hands than pumice, and it doesn't seem to dry you skin out. But I also wear nitrile gloves pretty much anytime it's not summer, they make your hands sweat in hot weather. As soon as the weather cools the nitrile gloves go on. I've been using Ansel Touch and Tough 5 mil #92-600 for years, they're tougher than the ones you get at the auto parts store, but still have good dexterity. This is where I purchase them, decent price for good gloves. > https://www.magidglove.com/ansell-t...able-powder-free-5-mil-nitrile-gloves-92600pp

Old Doug said: I have some i used for brazing flux. Was the bag balm for cow udders ? Click to expand... Yeah, and turns out the farmers applying it without gloves found out it works on booger diggers too!

was something popular mechanics if I recall, get a little hand soap and rub it in good and let it dry, do your dirty work and now all the crevices are full of soap already under the grime. Did some repair, polishing a few burrs off a hydraulic spool valve, working under a 40x microscope with an arkansas stone. Hard to get your fingers microscope clean without a belt sander.

There used to be a product, I forget what it was called. It came in a tub, like axle grease. You would rub it into your hands, before you turned any wrenches, and your hands cleaned with ease. It did work but then I discovered Micro Tex gloves and your hands aren’t slippery. Getting to the point of buying cheaper alternatives because they get all the money for them today. Need to find a cheaper glove with the little nubbies. Been using some off Amazon for a year, in black or orange. They are pretty good but not as nice feeling as Micro Tex.

HarleyHappy said: There used to be a product, I forget what it was called. Click to expand... liquid glove or such?

HarleyHappy said: There used to be a product, I forget what it was called. It came in a tub, like axle grease. You would rub it into your hands, before you turned any wrenches, and your hands cleaned with ease. It did work but then I discovered Micro Tex gloves and your hands aren’t slippery. Getting to the point of buying cheaper alternatives because they get all the money for them today. Need to find a cheaper glove with the little nubbies. Been using some off Amazon for a year, in black or orange. They are pretty good but not as nice feeling as Micro Tex. Click to expand... Oh’ I remember that stuff. The safety guy at my last Cat dealer pushed that product. It made my hands slippery for the rest of the day and and skin feel weird. Then, other guys loved it and claimed it made their dermatitis go away.

ATF, then dish soap, atf is extremely detergent, it will clean your hands in no time then wash with cheap dish soap. You will never see a guy that rebuilds automatics with dirty hands. works well in cold.