No love for latex gloves here. If you're working hard (and that's what this is about), they fill with sweat and easily tear like big-ole hand-shaped blisters. I leave the gloves in the kitchen for cutting peppers.

I experimented with making GoJo once. It smells like mineral spirits and cuts grease, yet it's water soluble, so there's an emulsifying agent too. I put some bars of hotel soap in a mason jar and covered them in mineral spirits to see if they would dissolve. Two weeks later it looked exactly the same. The wife put the kibosh on my experiment before I could throw the whole mess in the blender.

Needless to say, killjoy didn't let me mix lye with mineral spirits to see if I could make a "soap" from scratch either.

 

I was an industrial mechanic for a long time. Not wearing gloves caused the skin on my fingers to mutate. I had tiny square shaped patches of hard skin all over the sides of my finger. Used oil is a carcinogen. I'm not trying to sound like anyone's dad, but take care of your grabbers. It is irritating to wear gloves, but when your hands get rough enough you have to use dawn and a green scotch bright to literally scrub the grease out of the cracks. NOPE!

I'm a desk jockey now and my hands are now good to go, and the skin has healed.

 

I think you're all crazy. 5mil Nitrile Gloves are where it's at.

 

SgtB, that's interesting info and good to know. I had no idea. Thankfully I don't get into used oil that often. I'll be more careful when I do.

Chris, ...you're just a trader. ;-)

 

lol....we're keeping someone in business....we've been through 12 boxes of 50 gloves so far in building this chumpcar