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tried dipping each nail in a cup of lemon juice this am..they look marginally better..yes, actually, they do look cleaner though it may well have just bleached the dirt!

Quote from: Bugloss2009 on June 29, 2010, 11:13:24

Quote from: artichoke on June 28, 2010, 22:19:14
Make some bread. My hands are perfect after a kneading session......

that's what I was going to say! Tell the family it's "wholemeal"  ;D

Me too - it never fails!

Use barrier cream and you will find it all washes off.

I use Swarfega, available from B&Q, Homebase, builders merchants etc, not sure about Wilkos.

Cleans out the ingrained dirt, it does help on nails, but not perfect.

Quote from: Digeroo on June 29, 2010, 06:51:25
I usually find that washing my hair also seems to clean my hands or washing a pair of socks by hand. 

Yep- or washing up.

Quote from: aquilegia on June 29, 2010, 11:28:55!

I use my 3-y-o son's old toothbrushes. I scrub it on the soap or squirt on a bit of liquid soap and then scrub away! They are much softer than adult ones and I find they work so much better than proper nail brushes. Recycling too!

I hope you mean old toothbrushes  ;D

Have a manicure.   Not only does it get rid of the cr*p but it's very relaxing and if you've spent the day on the lottie/in the garden then you deserve a bit of pampering.

I go to my local college where they have a beauty department and it costs a fiver for a really nice manicure.

CC

I washed something by hand with a stain on it using Arial Biological and my hands  came up really amazingly bright.   Left them a bit dry but soon sorted that out with a bit of hand cream.

Think we must have extra tenacious dirt round here. Barrier cream makes no difference. And it survives hair washing easily.

Soaking in a solution of soda crystals works, but that's rather drastic. Only time my hands look clean all summer is bathroom cleaning day.

Sally

thought about a manicure but felt too deeply ashamed of how nails looked!! (..I know, I know..it's the equivalent of tidying up before the cleaner comes!. Wouldn't mind a cleaner come to think of it - house been sadly neglected since got the lottie!)

I don't even think about it. What's a bit of good clean dirt?

I would also like to go to have my nails manic cured if I had any and if I had then Wigan is much too far to travel ;D

Quote from: spudcounter on July 01, 2010, 12:31:05
thought about a manicure but felt too deeply ashamed of how nails looked!! (..I know, I know..it's the equivalent of tidying up before the cleaner comes!. Wouldn't mind a cleaner come to think of it - house been sadly neglected since got the lottie!)

;D ;D ;D...you are not alone...rainy day is my housework day...but in this weather ::)....I'm shoveling it back to lottie soon ::)

Quote from: aquilegia on June 29, 2010, 11:28:55
I find even when I wear gloves, my nails still get mucky!

I use my 3-y-o son's toothbrushes. I scrub it on the soap or squirt on a bit of liquid soap and then scrub away! They are much softer than adult ones and I find they work so much better than proper nail brushes. Recycling too!

lol....

All I can say is I hope you rinse it off before you let him brush his teeth with it again...pmsl


wraith

Quote from: carrot-cruncher on June 30, 2010, 20:44:43
Have a manicure.   Not only does it get rid of the cr*p but it's very relaxing and if you've spent the day on the lottie/in the garden then you deserve a bit of pampering.

I go to my local college where they have a beauty department and it costs a fiver for a really nice manicure.

last manicure i had (25 quid) she deliberately DIDNT clean under my nails,as apparently they *dont do that anymore* for health and safety reasons,they could damage the nail bed...i have never been so embarassed! I havnt found my hands too bad so far this year,the soil has been so very dry it hasnt clung to my skin as normal!

 :) wash your hair and then put nail polish on to hide the rest of the dirt....it works for me ;D / shades x