Best practice for washing your sticky hands?

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Souffle

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I am looking to see what the best practices are for washing those sticky hands after a long day of trimming. So far i'v found this stuff called 'Goop' for Artists & Mechanics that works. You need apply it to dry hands before washing. I imagine there are some Orange based cleaners that may work. I hear that WD-40 works like a charm only with the lame drawback that your hands will smell like WD-40 afterwards. I am really looking for a Natural solution but, whatever's clever. Thoughts?
 
general_sketch

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Cooking spray. Forget all that other stuff you mentioned.

Spray your hands then wash. No more sticky hands.
 
wobbly goblin

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use a pump in your wash room filled with cooking type vegetable oil and massage in for a minute or two then rinse with a pump of normal hand soap


fwiw
 
El Cerebro

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Citrus based cleaners are good for sticky, but some are pretty aggressive on the skin. I like the black nitrile gloves for gooey tasks, and they're thick enough for cheapasses like me who learn to take them off inside out for breaks. Finger hash can be easily retrieved by freezing then peeling off.

Probably worse than those hand cleaners, but I have a secret weapon called "pure citrus", it's a natural air deodorizer spray (from the home de pot). Great for cleaning surfaces, tape reside, decals, etc; used some on my fingers last night after being a dumass and plucking without gloves.
 
green punk

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Vinyl gloves instead does the job. Doesn't help much with arms though. Then the oil mentioned above. Olive works real good.
 
Souffle

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Thanks for the advice and quick response guys.
The collective knowledge on this forum is vast.
Much respect.
 
JayBee

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Oil, oil, oil.... I was using all kinds of corrosive mixes to clean my hands till my wife told me to try some of her oil based make up remover. Works perfect and so easy! Since then have found rubbing or mineral oil works too. Use the oil before adding water or soap then after can rinse with soap and water.

JB
 
squiggly

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Any oil or non-polar compound.

Chemistry behind this is "like dissolves like"

Water, being a polar compound, does not easily dissolve oils or non-polar compounds like THC, terpenes, etc.

Anything with significant non polar character like Acetone, alcohols, hydrocarbons should get the stuff off pretty well.

My suggestion is to use either alcohol (a hand santizer might work well), or shortening followed by a detergent.

For a little extra chemistry, detergents/soaps clean by having both polar and non polar ends, such that the non-polar interaction with the sticky substance allows water to pull it from the surface by the polar end. Ethanol has a hydrocarbon chain small enough such that it has significant polar character while retaining much of its non-polar dissolving power (Ethane being a hydrocarbon, completely non-polar and ethanol being a derivative with a polar OH group substituted at one position). Polar substances will be carried away by water alone.

Friction can also remove non-polar substances, perhaps a hand soap with grit would do the job well, this is what I used for years at a newspaper packing facility. Running enough water over it for long enough can remove it by friction also---but obviously that's a terrible idea the effectiveness of which will vary from compound to compound.
 
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I just use a bit of alcohol and my hands are quickly cleaned. Oils works but are less potent as solvents.
my two....
 
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I Use Buttah

Regular old butter, a little pinch rubbed all over sticky fingers. Then wash as normal, I did get a thing of that hand cleaner that took the sticky right off but didn't pay attention to what kind it was-had alcohol smell/feel. Mostly buttah does the trick



mal
 
SmokeyPipes

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Just use some Alchohol for the quickest and easiest way to take it off form my experience!
 
Snowblind

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I just use a bit of alcohol and my hands are quickly cleaned. Oils works but are less potent as solvents.
my two....

There is a reason why its called rubbing alcohol. Just a rub little on your hands/fingertips will do the trick. Alcohol will dry out your skin just a bit as a downside.....
 
hiheelz ngarden

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Just make a sugar or salt scrub.
You take an empty hand soap pump and fill it with some olive oil and some sugar or salt then drop some essential oil of your liking.
There you go!
Clean hands then wash with regular soap!
I hope this helps!

Blessings!
 
MendoCruz

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Just make a sugar or salt scrub.
You take an empty hand soap pump and fill it with some olive oil and some sugar or salt then drop some essential oil of your liking.
There you go!
Clean hands then wash with regular soap!
I hope this helps!

Blessings!

That's what I'm talking about. We keep it right at the kitchen sink. :)
 
Snowblind

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Thanks for the tip!
 
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Hand sanitizer. Cleans the trimmers up good too. When I trim I have a bottle of sanitizer, paper towels, a blade to scrape, and the trimmers. All I need for it all.
Peace
 
LordVane

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I prefer alcohol, with a little salt to create friction. Works a treat IME.
 
Trim Scene

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These are the two products that we recommend for cleaning dirty hands.

Shrub Scrub


and

Sweet Sticky Fingers
.

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