cleaning your hands, this works and is CHEAP.

[toadfish]

Read a 2011 issue of pbo last week and remembered to try this and IT WORKS.

Sugar and vegetable oil.

Had horrible dirty hands after a job just now and tried the above and clean as a whistle- well done whoever posted it in PBO mag.

 

[nigelmercier]

Is it really worth it, with Swarfega at less than the price of beer?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001P0U8Q/dolcetto-21

 

[VicMallows]

Is it really worth it, with Swarfega at less than the price of beer?

Smells better. Salt+Oil also works if like me you seldom have sugar onboard. Isn't it just about anything gritty in something fatty ..... assuming it's oily grime you want to clean off?

 

[toadfish]

Is it really worth it, with Swarfega at less than the price of beer?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001P0U8Q/dolcetto-21

I have loctitie 7850 which I have always found better than swarfega but even that was not as good as this oil plus sugar - don't know how it works but I love it. And the loctite stuff does have a horrible fake orange smell to it.

 

[Mistroma]

I quite like "The Really Good Stuff", only problem is buying it. My wife once tried to get some in Halfrauds and the conversation went on for quite a while.

Halfords guy offers to help when she is browsing.
SWMBO: I'm looking for hand cleaner, "The Really Good Stuff".
Halfords: Well Swarfega works quite well
SWMBO: Yes, but I'd prefer "The Really Good Stuff".
Halfords: Do you know who makes it?
SWMBO: No idea?
Halfords: What does it look like?
SWMBO: I think it is an orange coloured dispenser
Halfords: Doesn't ring a bell, are you certain that you don't know what it is called?
SWMBO: Penny finally drops. Ah, it's actually called "The Really Good Stuff", that's the name on the dispenser.
Halfords: Oh, never heard of that before, I'll ask my boss if we stock it.

Guy wanders off and starts talking to someone who comes right over
Halfords2: What sort of hand cleaner are you looking for?
SWMBO: It's "The Really Good Stuff"
Halfords2: Yes, but who makes it?
SWBO: Now having trouble keeping a straight face, deliberately spins it out a bit longer.

She now knows to explain very carefully before trying to buy it.

 

[Spyro]

Then what do you wash the oil and sugar off with?

 

[BobnLesley]

Just make some bread; though if your hands are really grimy, make brown rather than white as the latter tends to look a bit grey.

 

[LadyInBed]

Then what do you wash the oil and sugar off with?

Swarfega

 

[Elessar]

decorators wipes from B+Q. Cleans hands and boat. And clothes. Always works even when you haven't got water. And gets off surplus paint, varnish, silicone sealant and sikafklex (before it sets of course)

 

[onesea]

Read a 2011 issue of pbo last week and remembered to try this and IT WORKS.

Sugar and vegetable oil.

Had horrible dirty hands after a job just now and tried the above and clean as a whistle- well done whoever posted it in PBO mag.

Diesel and sugar is works, sounds like it does the same but does not smell as nice...

You wash it off with water... Same as washing up liquid needs water..

Baby wipes are dam fine as well...

Sugar and oil is probably better for your skin though???

 

[boguing]

A friend and I concluded that, since fingernails always work when all other tools fail to shift something, that we should save the clippings, put them in somebody elses liquidiser and mix with persil and washing up liquid.

 

[nigelmercier]

Then what do you wash the oil and sugar off with?

Swarfega

Indeed.

Some stuff called GoJo that I got in the USA is the best I have tried, I didn't realise you could get it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002RDV3PE/dolcetto-21