Can’t get the scent of gas off my hands with soap and water.
What’s a better way? Dig your hands into cat litter?
I work in oilfield spill cleanups and pull wrenches occasionally on the semi I run, Fast Orange/Gojo or Sunlight dish soap are the best. Purell alcohol hand wipes also work well
Usually like brake clean or a mixture of dawn and gojo. Or it’ll go away by itself after awhile
Do NOT put brake clean on your hands, especially the chlorinated ones. It’s incredibly carcinogenic and is about to be banned in the U.S.
Use Fast Orange they sell that stuff at any mechanic shop
Lava soap and warm water, Lava is designed for grease,Oil,brake fluid and gasoline. Works really good been using it for close to 20 years
very hard to do…use goop stuff mechanics use to clean hands…i alwayd use dawn too its a miracle worker
In Britain, I used Swarfega.
I couldn’t find it in the USA for a while but I just looked and you can get it at Walmart.
Take some gel and thoroughly rub into your hands and arms. Take a rag or paper and wipe off excess. Then wash hands with soap and water.
I’ve also used Gojo with the grit particles. This feels more industrial than Swarfega and it stings if you have any cuts or bruises. It also dries your skin a lot.
Dam it! All the good answers are already taken. Yeah, what they said.
Diesel…
Look up barrier creams. Not as good as gloves but I assume they would get into the cracks and pores of your skin and prevent things from soaking in so deep.
Might still have to wash things off the surface but could help with those dark dirty lines that never seem to come out or gasoline that is so hard to remove.
Only used them a little myself.
Chlorinated Brake Cleaner
Brake cleaner
I’m an airplane mechanic and work with many different chemicals. Dawn dishwashing liquid is the best.
Dawn dish soap, and a diesel fuel and liquid brake cleaner mix for the truly stuck stuff. But I’ll still always finish with some normal smell good soap to at least try and mask the smell.
For soaps, we use a supplier that’s local, can’t quite remember but I can find out. However that Mac soap is definitely the best I’ve used probably because of the walnut shell scrubbers vs pumice based soaps.
I would stay far and away from that orange shit, for how rough and drying it is on the hands it doesn’t balance off how ineffective it is. Pumice is also too rough on the skin.
-Wear nitrile gloves -Moisturize your hands PLUS it helps even if you end up in the rare situation without gloves, the moisturizer acts as a small barrier of sorts and will stop you from absorbing as much -Wash up throughout the day, and use cooler water as it’ll keep the pores shut from absorbing shit while you wash up
Your skin is your largest organ, try to minimize exposure to chemicals as much as you can and minimize absorption
Did not know about the moisture bit. I’m thinking the oils or fats help stop the skin from soaking in as much of the fluids that are water-based.
Thanks for the tips!
Diesel and 0000 steel wool.