Mini Review: Stanley Anti Bacterial Beaded Hand Gel (1 Litre clear tub, gel bright yellow)
It's crap, don't waste your money.
Minor car work done, hands pre-protected with barrier cream, used per instructions on dry hands on a light mix of brake dust and grease, and it wouldn't touch it, didn't even move it about a bit. Utter, utter crap.
Now in bin and waiting until I can get some beaded citrus swarfega (orange coloured gel).
use diesel/paraffin, washing up liquid and soft sand. Its exactly the same without the citrus smell,.
It's not but hey, who cares.
Was the car a Minor?
I get my coat and just f off.
Yeah was going to say paraffin soaked rag to get the worst greasey gunk off, then neat washing up liquid followed by good wash, never needed any abrasive.
Use to use green Swarfega in the 70's but that is just thickened washing up liquid.
No, next guess :-)
Funny you should mention that, I was doing it in the open and in the rain, full waterproofs in action but as it was brakes I was able to huddle under the wheel arch.
I wouldn't have even tried it, being inappropriately Anti-Bacterial for its declared use.
Washing up liquid and sugar here, shifts almost anything.
no, it has a solvent as well. I made it accidentally from fairy liquid and white spirit. Couldn't tell the difference..
Ugh, I remember it well, maybe 40 years back. Sod that.
In article , Dave Liquorice writes
Things have moved on, you don't need to screw up your skin with solvents and aggressive drying detergents to get your hands clean. Decent cleansers use citrus oil or other friendly agents to dissolve out grease, dirt and oil without drying out your skin, polygrains delve into the rougher recesses.
I wouldn't dream of using green swarfega, it's junk by comparison to current generation stuff but their orange stuff uses citrus oils and is a pleasure to use, rinses clean off with no residue and w/o excessive drying.
I had to use w/u liquid tonight and my hands are a mess, tight skin and cuticles splitting and pulling against my nails, reminds me of how it used to be.
A bit like graffiti cleaning these days, nobody uses solvents, they use targeted cleansers and it comes off first time.
I was about to suggest that for cases where nothing else is available.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not since a respected and learned man told me about skin cancer, I don't. For years I didn't bother too much about petro-chemicals and hydrocarbons getting on my skin, but seeing the long-term results that others have suffered, I knocked that on the head years ago.
My skin must be tougher than yours. Mind you I do at least two lots of washing up, by hand, every day.
My hands did object after the oil line froze and I spent an hour or two outside in sub zero temeperatures getting hands liberally smoothered in a heating oil and ice/snow mixture, then a few more hours inside dismantling the fire valve and filter to get the gunk out of them. Getting covered in heating oil again. But a little bit of E45 lotion soon sorted that out.
A bit of paraffin on a rag doesn't hurt 'em. I'm a little more circumspect of more powerfull degreaseing agents like lighter fuel, petrol or acetone.
Are there a lot of bacteria in car brakes then?
Brian
You must have some kind of skin problem then, I've been using green swarfega and neat washing up liquid on a regular basis for over 30 years with absolutely no ill effects.
My dad probably would have said something similar, my mum saint as she was never shrunk from his touch, well not when she wanted her feet exfoliated :-)
Splattered roadkill
Define the term "a lot".
Since bacteria or as yet unnamed life forms can exist in regions where there is no free oxygen and the temperatures are very high, it weould be wrong to suggest you would need an army of them to colonise a patch of skin damaged by chemicals capable of stripping paint.
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