Palmolive vs GoJo

A little dirt, bar soap and warm water.

Moderate dirt, dish soap.

Greasy dirt, fast orange.

Scared it will never come out dirt, Comet or Ajax.

If it's really bad, brake cleaner, followed by one of the above, followed by lotion.

PUMICE!!

whatever industrial handcleaner work carrys, it burns cuts and drys skin but it cuts grease and oil. At home its usually just dawn

I've been using this stuff at work for 10 years. Doesn't dry your skin and it's odorless.

Pro Soap

I have a big jug of Gojo next to my garage sink. I've had it for 2-3 years and it's mostly fully. The trash can under the sink has at least 3 empty Dawn bottles in it.

/story.

Lava bar soap. It works well. My old college roommate used to shower with it because he had 2 cases for some reason

I've found if I can't use something with pumice, that shampoo works really well. I noticed it a few times that I'd give up on cleaning my hands, get in the shower and after washing my hair my hands were cleaner. So I tried it in the sink a few times, and it seems to cut the grease and oil better than dish soap.

bigev007 wrote: I've found if I can't use something with pumice, that shampoo works really well. I noticed it a few times that I'd give up on cleaning my hands, get in the shower and after washing my hair my hands were cleaner. So I tried it in the sink a few times, and it seems to cut the grease and oil better than dish soap.

I use that and an old toothbrush with the bristles cut down to scrub my nails and it works wonders.

ansonivan wrote: I've been using this stuff at work for 10 years. Doesn't dry your skin and it's odorless. Pro Soap

Second on the Pro Soap, they may even still give out free samples on their web site.

I used to buy the big pump bottles of Gojo or Fast Orange. Grandpa owned/operated a machine shop and kept Lava or Gojo in the bathroom. One day he was out of hand cleaner, bar soap wasn't cutting it, so he grabbed the bottle of shampoo. Plain old no frills, nothing fancy Prell shampoo. It worked so well, that it became his go-to "soap." He somehow wound up doing some last minute Christmas shopping on his own one year, no input from granny, and all of us grandsons got some random hand tools & a bottle of Prell.

All that to say a bottle of Prell, and one of those green & yellow Scotch-Brite type sponges are usually what I use, Ajax does okay if I'm out of Prell.

Dang, I sure do miss that old kook, thanks for bring back the memory GRM!

• Lee

fasted58 wrote: Dawn + 1000

QTFT - When I was 18 I worked at a rubber plant producing raw rubber for other manufacturers, to say it was a dirty job is beyond an understatement. The only thing that would get the carbon black off, was Dawn dish soap. Not Palmolive, not any store brand, just straight up Dawn dish soap. I have fairly oily skin to begin with so I didn't get dried out by it.

That being said, I have a gallon jug of Fast orange hand cleaner for the garage, the pumice helps get that grease out of my hands better.

Cherry gojo, the commercial stuff.

In boot camp we used Prell instead of bar soap so we wouldn't have to clean soap scum off the showers.

My dad was a high school shop teacher when I was a kid and the school had one of those round sinks with the floor pedals and the powdered soap. Nothing worked like the powdered soap with dish soap.

If im really really nasty, ill use some castrol superclean drom my spray bottle. That E36 M3 burns on good skin, let alone cuts.

Followrd by normal dish soap and hot water like i would for mildly dirty hands.

I've been using Goop- it's cheap at harbor freight and works very well. Otherwise dish soap.

Basil Exposition wrote: I've used Dawn with sugar in a pinch-- both things that are readily available in the office break room when you've changed a tire on the way to work.

Sugar is also GREAT when you have gasoline on your hands.. Sometimes the dishsoap doesn't get rid of the smell on my dried out hands... Sugar solves the problem...

(keep some in your tacklebox too! )