Sunday, December 13, 2009

What is the best hand soap to wash off engine oil and grease?

Something that really works to clean this gunk out of your skin.What is the best hand soap to wash off engine oil and grease?
I work on cars during the week and help out repairing commercial class 6 sweeping equipment (20-26,000 pounds) and this stuff is messy.





I have tried damn near every possible hand cleaner you can think of. Lava, goop, gojo, zep orange, fast orange, boraxo, kresto etc etc.





None of these clean better than this stuff called Mean Green. You will probably have to order it online, you can not get it in a store. its expensive, but it is what we use at work and my hands look SPOTLESS. You would never know I work on diesel trucks.





Mean Green is the best soap we have found to date. After washing with mean green I use fast orange because it has a nice smell and it has aloe in it. We use this stuff called ';kresto'; at work as well. Its in a regular commerical wall dispenser and it is great for getting your hands clean enough to deal with customers, pull a car out or eat lunch, but at the end of the day I clean up with mean green before going home.





At home I have a ton of different stuff. The problem with goop/gojo is that, while they cut grease well, they dont have enough ';pumice'; in them to get into the crevices of your skin. Lava/fast orange are too liquidy. Actually, if you want to get away on the cheap, dawn and some regular sugar cleans pretty well. Dawn cuts grease and the sugar acts as a mild abrasive.





JimWhat is the best hand soap to wash off engine oil and grease?
Dishwashing detergent is one of the best grease cutting soaps available. However, most of the 'hand cleaners' sold in auto parts stores are very good grease/grime removers too.
For light grease and oil, I find dish soap works great. Yeah, plain ol' dish soap. It might make your hands feel a bit dry afterwards though.
if you are working with cars and you have transmission fluid handy wash your hands with it first and then any soap after that. trans. fluid has detergents that will get the worst grease off of you and washes off easily with any soap. Goop also works well and you can buy it at any parts store.
Fast Orange works well.
Go Joe.
orange goop
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Use brake cleaner........its so good to clean
There is always gojo orange but you have to scrub. The best thing I have found is Boyd's Ultra Violet hand cleaner. Also a cheap alternative is Ajax and dish detergent. Hope this helps.
We use Fast Orange %26amp; it seems to work the best - but I have also used SoftScrub w/ bleach... yes it's bleach but It works for that...
Fast orange with pumice.
PREMATEX WITH LANOLIN, IT HAS A KEROSINE BASE AND WILL EVEN GET RID OF YOUR MOTHER IN-LAW IF NEEDED. BUY @ AUTO ZONE,MURRAY'S ETC,ETC.

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