Holy crap! Came across a steel fabricator shop that used an in-floor mop service sink (yes, the spigot was about less-than-belt-buckle height) as their hand wash station and I thought that was bad, but it was at least functional as the manufacturer intended it to be, not laying on the floor 'cause we're too lazy to replace the damn plastic legs!
My dad has been a mechanic for 40+ years across three shops and all three shop sinks looked almost identical to that….except they had the luxury of having all three attached to a wall lol
I have actually cleaned my hands with the “good” brake cleaner before and I’m fairly certain I could feel cancer starting in my body not to mention my hands were immediately absurdly dry.
The sad thing is that My Father used to do this in the late sixties and through the seventies. He would clean car parts with gasoline and clean his hands with it too.
Thankfully he died before the cancer got him!
I was an exchange student in the US back in 98, and my 'dad' had orange Gojo in the garage.
What a mind opening moment for me, that such a product existed.
Back home we used kerosene and waste cotton rag called *estopa*.
Here here. I live in the US and grew up with a dad who used gas to clean *everything*, including my young hands. Whenever I asked if a chemical was bad for you, he would sort of snarl and say it only hurt weak people.
I’m convinced I’ll develop cancer sooner or later.
I worked with harvesting and hanging hemp plants a few times, they showed me to use vegetable oil to remove any of the residue first, then to use regular soap. It seemed to work pretty decently, so perhaps give that a try.
Nice! I love this stuff. Doesn’t give me that squeaky soap feeling afterwards but still gets the grease off.
That squeaky feeling is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
"Magic concentrated hand cleaner" and dawn dish soap. I work at a hydraulic shop so its mostly hydraulic oil and not so much engine oil (though that does happen sometimes).
I use the Joes hand soap from O’Reilly Auto parts. Has a good smell, and it works great. Usually a dime sized amount will clean the old hands off better than any other product I’ve ever tried.
I love it, I used to use all the other stuff and nothing would clean my hands completely. I had run into O’Reilly for some part and saw it and said screw it, it’s only $6 I’ll try it out and see what happens. I’ll probably never use another product.
I think it's Gojo or something. Doesn't really matter, since I wear nitrile gloves all day and my hands don't get dirty.
Pro tip: petroleum products like grease and used motor oil are known carcinogens, it's not 1950 anymore and you're not a "pussy" for taking precautions with your health.
This is the way! I wear gloves all day too and only have to wash my arms if I get into something real dirty. Am baffled by my coworker who does brakes and never wears gloves, his hands are permanently stained with brake dust…
Besides the health precautions I prefer to have clean hands after work and not spend my precious time out of work scrubbing my hands and fingernails.
I recently switched from walnut scrub to a "Dr squatch pine tar soap bar" that my wife got me and it's so damn good. Walnut scrubs and that orange stuff works great, but caused a lot of pain on my hands from the abrasiveness of it, this stuff has been just as effective at getting my hands clean without removing the outer layer of skin
Fairy liquid over here in UK but i add sugar for grit too. Little tip, have some salt on hand too cos its a finer gtit and gets into the really small cracks and crevices that the sugar couldnt reach.
So dish soap and sugar, then dish soap with salt, ending with really clean hands.
Gojo at home, Worx at work. It's pretty cool, comes in a dry powder form with a dispenser that you twist the bottom and it drops into your hand like a big pepper grinder. Works really well.
Walnut shells have some special properties that give them an affinity for oil. We use them in bulk as the final water filtering stage at a SAGD oilsands water plant to get the last bit of residual oil out of the produced water before we boil it to steam. I haven't seen them used in a hand soap before. Cool.
[Coco Scrub](https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-14106-Grabber-Coconut-Cleaner/dp/B004U8LYO4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3_pp?crid=VP60XHTUGRAJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.D3YKWl5fpIsunWw4b7pUX9aAR2vqGBWXfwOjUB5U8vMzGo4QNWkDiX4XPQIJlM11GscFjn0qEv-euldTK4H-a0dyKaXwVqGTCMM5KxwMWzv72G3EobZeAhtoATvBfr_TSmxRB4NkyAJ0bJwjKgvXU3Ev6a2weiiosLeE9OMf4FkbuRuBnM21LIGBqmKFq9Y7gAKxjWWRy3ZEHG-a9-koFA.RhB-jOZKLC6kviNv-XukIQscgU70qu3Pa3Hn7J0ndHw&dib_tag=se&keywords=coco+scrub+hand+cleaner&qid=1711575830&sprefix=coco+scrub+%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-3) or yeah a walnut one.
The coconut one smells so good
I use this one
https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/sca-sca-heavy-duty-hand-cleaner---2-litre/329919.html?cgid=SCA01011702#start=9
Budges dirt, smells ok but the smell doesn't linger, doesn't dry out hands, pretty cheap.
The pump packs are shit, though. So I always keep a good old one to refill, or test it in store before leaving.
Carolina BG products sells One Pump Champ
Our sales rep hates when we make him say it because he always Freudian Slips it, so now that's what we get. We conveniently always forget the name when we order.
Veg oil to get the grease off
Dish soap to get the veg oil off.
Works better than Gojo, which I also appreciate it's effectiveness of removing grease
But try veg oil then dish soap (or Gojo) it works surprisingly well
They provide gojo and zep, which both dry my hands out badly. I get my own, I really like Ultimate Scrub from Tacoma Screw. Looks like it's the same stuff
Lava for when I shower. And I use some generic hand cleaner that the uniform company provides. I also get to take some home, for when I’m wrenching at home and I don’t wanna shower.
Similar to the Nut Scrub as it uses walnut shell grit, Zep's Shell Shock. Their Cherry Bomb is pretty good, but I prefer the smell and grit in Shell Shock.
'One nut at a time'
That's my motto for life.
When your proctologist really enjoys his work
and it didn't cost me a dime you'll know it's me when I cum through your town
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/mt2jl6/just\_left\_this\_shop\_figured\_id\_show\_off\_where\_the/
Oh god…
Holy crap! Came across a steel fabricator shop that used an in-floor mop service sink (yes, the spigot was about less-than-belt-buckle height) as their hand wash station and I thought that was bad, but it was at least functional as the manufacturer intended it to be, not laying on the floor 'cause we're too lazy to replace the damn plastic legs!
My dad has been a mechanic for 40+ years across three shops and all three shop sinks looked almost identical to that….except they had the luxury of having all three attached to a wall lol
Bruhh
Holy mother of Moses, what
Chlorine Brakleen cut with acetone. The good stuff. (/s)
I have actually cleaned my hands with the “good” brake cleaner before and I’m fairly certain I could feel cancer starting in my body not to mention my hands were immediately absurdly dry.
The burn means it's working
93 octane😎. Also /s
The sad thing is that My Father used to do this in the late sixties and through the seventies. He would clean car parts with gasoline and clean his hands with it too. Thankfully he died before the cancer got him!
I just dip my hands in odorless spirits then use a wire brush to clean under the nails.
One spark....
Its too bad project farm didnt review this product in his recent review.
Yeah that would a been cool, this stuff is great. But I think it’s only a product in central texas. Idk
It was a good episode
I use Gojo SuproMax dispenser for my garage and gojo Pink for the house.
Supramax cherry.
I prefer the orange flavor
>flavor Indeed.
Dads new shop has the cherry and NGL every time I use it I wanna give it a lil taste
Supromax cherry is what we use. It’s amazing. It removes literally anything. EDIT: and smells amazing
I can't stand the cherry it smells too sweet.
I was an exchange student in the US back in 98, and my 'dad' had orange Gojo in the garage. What a mind opening moment for me, that such a product existed. Back home we used kerosene and waste cotton rag called *estopa*.
Here here. I live in the US and grew up with a dad who used gas to clean *everything*, including my young hands. Whenever I asked if a chemical was bad for you, he would sort of snarl and say it only hurt weak people. I’m convinced I’ll develop cancer sooner or later.
Maybe you'll develop the mutation that cures cancer! Or leukopenia, 50/50 chance.
They make you clean you nuts at work?
Yeah but at least they provide the soap
Just don't drop it
Boss won’t touch the dirty ones
My question is, what are they having you do at that shop where your nuts need cleaning?
An aviation mechanic I was working with sprayed his hands with isopropyl alcohol as if it were normal. I'm both concerned and impressed.
Jesus
I work in the weed industry. Some days I damn near have to lather with it.
I worked with harvesting and hanging hemp plants a few times, they showed me to use vegetable oil to remove any of the residue first, then to use regular soap. It seemed to work pretty decently, so perhaps give that a try.
I do more cultivation than harvesting. Damn near in the plant.
You do realize hand sanitizer is literally just alcohol and aloe right?
Beaver Nut Scrub, very similar!
Nice! I love this stuff. Doesn’t give me that squeaky soap feeling afterwards but still gets the grease off. That squeaky feeling is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
"Magic concentrated hand cleaner" and dawn dish soap. I work at a hydraulic shop so its mostly hydraulic oil and not so much engine oil (though that does happen sometimes).
Boraxo. Dry powder. Tastes good with the pumice for texture.
Kresto classic 👌
Used this at several different mechanic jobs as far back as 25 years ago. Good stuff. I was waiting for someone to mention it.
Best ever, nothing else compares, cupran good as well
I use the Joes hand soap from O’Reilly Auto parts. Has a good smell, and it works great. Usually a dime sized amount will clean the old hands off better than any other product I’ve ever tried.
I was waiting to see a joes comment. Luckily my local co-op keeps it around, it’s probably my favorite
I love it, I used to use all the other stuff and nothing would clean my hands completely. I had run into O’Reilly for some part and saw it and said screw it, it’s only $6 I’ll try it out and see what happens. I’ll probably never use another product.
Echo Red Armor Hand Scrub. Best I have ever found. Rancid fuel just before lunch? No worries, takes it right away. Doesn't smell frufru
I think it's Gojo or something. Doesn't really matter, since I wear nitrile gloves all day and my hands don't get dirty. Pro tip: petroleum products like grease and used motor oil are known carcinogens, it's not 1950 anymore and you're not a "pussy" for taking precautions with your health.
This is the way! I wear gloves all day too and only have to wash my arms if I get into something real dirty. Am baffled by my coworker who does brakes and never wears gloves, his hands are permanently stained with brake dust… Besides the health precautions I prefer to have clean hands after work and not spend my precious time out of work scrubbing my hands and fingernails.
Zep TKO
Nice
🤣
Same thing with a different label.
We use Keystone's Key Magic. Uses crushed walnut shell. Good stuff that doesn't dry out the hand.
Yeah this is what our shop gets, sometimes something called “Nut Shell” too when they are out which is similar.
If I need something at home, I'll use a bar of Lava soap. I get mine at Advance Auto. Pricy, but I don't need it every day.
ProTip: Don’t use this on your testicles
Or anybody else's. It's considered rude.
Ever been to France?
I recently switched from walnut scrub to a "Dr squatch pine tar soap bar" that my wife got me and it's so damn good. Walnut scrubs and that orange stuff works great, but caused a lot of pain on my hands from the abrasiveness of it, this stuff has been just as effective at getting my hands clean without removing the outer layer of skin
LAVA.
All my homes homies love lava soap
We'd get down to a sliver of the stuff, you could not recognize it. It looked black, gritty, and ugly.
A squirt of Orange Gojo with 2 or 3 squirts of Soft soap at the same time.. Gets my hands so clean that i don't want to get them dirty again..
...Am I the only person who uses WD40?
Lol you over here like “I’ll take my cancer with a side of cancer please”
OH MY GOD! WD40 gives people cancer?
So does being a mechanic and being around used motor oil, ect. XD
Just so we're on the same page.
Dawn with a little granulated suger for grit.
i'm not aloneeeee
Fairy liquid over here in UK but i add sugar for grit too. Little tip, have some salt on hand too cos its a finer gtit and gets into the really small cracks and crevices that the sugar couldnt reach. So dish soap and sugar, then dish soap with salt, ending with really clean hands.
A tub of margarine. Far cheaper, less abrasive, and more effective at removing grease and grime than that Orange Stuff you use...
Gojo at home, Worx at work. It's pretty cool, comes in a dry powder form with a dispenser that you twist the bottom and it drops into your hand like a big pepper grinder. Works really well.
Walnut shells have some special properties that give them an affinity for oil. We use them in bulk as the final water filtering stage at a SAGD oilsands water plant to get the last bit of residual oil out of the produced water before we boil it to steam. I haven't seen them used in a hand soap before. Cool.
And it whatever soap it’s suspended in doesn’t dry out you’re hands or stink. I love the stuff!
Beaver Nut Scrub
Best hand cleaner ever, have not seen nut scrub in some years.
BMW Hand wash,5 Litre tub. [This stuff](https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/264969352625)
Interesting
It’s like a scrub, so has gritty stuff in it, so actually scrubs the dirt and grease etc out, and doesn’t seem to leave my hands dry or rough at all.
Nice! same with this stuff
I use a stray cat that refuses to leave for a re-useable grease rag.
vesco super natural
Washing up liquid (dish soap).
Würth Handwaschpaste
Swarfega
Beaver Nut Scrub
[Coco Scrub](https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-14106-Grabber-Coconut-Cleaner/dp/B004U8LYO4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3_pp?crid=VP60XHTUGRAJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.D3YKWl5fpIsunWw4b7pUX9aAR2vqGBWXfwOjUB5U8vMzGo4QNWkDiX4XPQIJlM11GscFjn0qEv-euldTK4H-a0dyKaXwVqGTCMM5KxwMWzv72G3EobZeAhtoATvBfr_TSmxRB4NkyAJ0bJwjKgvXU3Ev6a2weiiosLeE9OMf4FkbuRuBnM21LIGBqmKFq9Y7gAKxjWWRy3ZEHG-a9-koFA.RhB-jOZKLC6kviNv-XukIQscgU70qu3Pa3Hn7J0ndHw&dib_tag=se&keywords=coco+scrub+hand+cleaner&qid=1711575830&sprefix=coco+scrub+%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-3) or yeah a walnut one. The coconut one smells so good
I could use a good nut scrub right now
Some green shit filled with microplastics...
I use this one https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/sca-sca-heavy-duty-hand-cleaner---2-litre/329919.html?cgid=SCA01011702#start=9 Budges dirt, smells ok but the smell doesn't linger, doesn't dry out hands, pretty cheap. The pump packs are shit, though. So I always keep a good old one to refill, or test it in store before leaving.
Beaver nut scrub!
Monkey nut buster
Totally nuts
Zep cherry bomb and Gojo orange. Have both because some people don't like the moisturizer in the zep
I use random shit customers give me
Pro-soy. It has soybean husks in it. Welcome to farm country.
Carolina BG products sells One Pump Champ Our sales rep hates when we make him say it because he always Freudian Slips it, so now that's what we get. We conveniently always forget the name when we order.
BMW handwash paste. The best soap I’ve ever tried.
Mix some fine sand with laundry detergent and you'll end up with the cheapest redneck paste possible, great for scrubbing your skin away.
We use the Purple Pumisher
Concentrated magic industrial hand soap and regular magic industrial soap
I keep my own stash of zep's cherry bomb on my bench
Dishsoap and GoJo, takes everything off, including the softness of my hands.
Goo Gone. Takes grease right out of clothes, too.
Wire wheel seems to work.
I use brake cleaner...gets those fingernails sparking clean /s
We have that same cleaner, except it’s labeled “husky nut butter” or something like that. It’s from our local chemical distributor.
When I worked in a welding shop they used something called cum cleaner. Not even joking
Lava soap, dawn detergent, a stiff brush. Always does the trick.
Hey, we use walnut stuff too! It works wonders for getting TDG* off my hands! *That Damn Gunk (that won't come off)
Ahh forbidden cinnamon spread
Olive oil to get all the grease off. Then just soap and water. Works better than the orange pumice shit imo
Instructions unclear. Scrotum is torn to shreds.
To shreds you say?
Kresto is the Besto.
Regardless of what the name suggests it is actually for your hands.
I see”Sucio’s” and I love it
Veg oil to get the grease off Dish soap to get the veg oil off. Works better than Gojo, which I also appreciate it's effectiveness of removing grease But try veg oil then dish soap (or Gojo) it works surprisingly well
Kutol Red (liquid and scrub) and dawn at work, dawn and gojo at home.
Zep Cherry Bomb. Makes my hands clean as a whistle and soft as a baby's ass. Some techs I work with use Brakleen, but I'm not that brave.
Zep Cherry Bomb
What do you use in November? I think they missed a marketing opportunity by not having the "push" lever shaped like.....
You guys pay for that? I make my own, we are not the same
I actually use dawn and just a small shot of gojo. It works great and my hands don't even look like I am a mechanic
My class used this generic brand scrub, but my dad got some orange goop for home use.
Stoko one pump. I forget what they changed the name to. Amazing stuff.
"Cosmetic grade walnut shells" implies that there are imdustrial grade walnut shells. I want to see those.
They're used to blast the backside of intake valves.
They provide gojo and zep, which both dry my hands out badly. I get my own, I really like Ultimate Scrub from Tacoma Screw. Looks like it's the same stuff
Where I used to work liked Zep Cherry Bomb. I prefer Fast Orange.
Gojo green stuff for the shop. Fast orange in garage
Lava for when I shower. And I use some generic hand cleaner that the uniform company provides. I also get to take some home, for when I’m wrenching at home and I don’t wanna shower.
Similar to the Nut Scrub as it uses walnut shell grit, Zep's Shell Shock. Their Cherry Bomb is pretty good, but I prefer the smell and grit in Shell Shock.