Top tip for the gardeners amongst you who hate to wear gloves, like me naughty naughty. I can only wear them for sharp and prickly jobs. When your hands get very bad with ground in soil and muck the following is a good way to clean them.
1. pour about a tablespoon of sugar into your palm.
2.pour about a tablespoon of cooking oil on top of it.
3.scrub into your hands concentrating on the ground in bits, edges of fingers and thumbs.
4.after a few mins add a squirt of washing up liquid and scrub a bit more. Rinse under warm water, dry and put a bit of hancream on. Results= Wonderfully soft hands.
And for those with nails, who don't wish to be gloved, dig your nails into a bar of soap before heading out to your plot. no room for soil to get stuck and ready prepared for the nailbrush when you get home.
- soft brown sugar & olive oil for the discerning?
The soap trick's fine so long as it's not raining! = Tim
The best tip to aid mucky hands.......get someone else to do the mucky jobs. ;D
Oh I wish ;D ;D
Boots own brand Botanics Shaving Gel with Aloe Vera, really good for softening hands, not much for shaving though
Deja vu
Garden hands; this was my very first question on the beebboard which was the very first time I ever posted anywhere, I found it a bit scary then and look at me now.
There`s nothing beats rolling out a bit of pastry, and the birds don `t mind if it`s a bit grey!
ScrumpJack. Your tip has stood the test of time. It's also what those working in industry used to do before Swarfega came out. Thanks for the reminder.
The thought of having soap stuck up my nails makes me shiver! ekk! I use those surgical gloves, fine till summer arrives and your hands sweat! ;D But you can't really feel you have them on.
I hate wearing gloves and my hands have to be presentable at work. No matter what I tried, I'm always left with stains, especially on my thumb and forefinger. So I still have to resort to (and you will shudder) thick bleach. Just a couple of minutes will do. It actually seems to make my hands soft while they felt like sandpaper before, hard to believe I know. afterwards, I do put cream on and my hands stay soft. Not good for the environment but I use just a little bottom in a bowl and only when I really have to.
I use good old soap and water (combined with a nail brush if really ingrained). I usualy find it doeds the trick as i dont like gloves (except when it is cold - lol)
Soil I find no problem washing off, it is multipurpose compost that is the devils own job to remove. >:(