Haunted by the smell of manky Marigolds™

[Orang Utan]

I use latex single use gloves like food prep or surgical gloves at work.

Aye, that’s what I use, but they keep splitting. Also use those plastic pinnies so I don’t get grease on my threads

 

[Orang Utan]

What about the heat of the water? Everyone knows washing up water should be Very Hot.

Should it? I just have it as hot as I can bear

 

[5t3IIa]

Should it? I just have it as hot as I can bear

I think it should And I can bear it a lot hotter with gloves on

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What about the heat of the water? Everyone knows washing up water should be Very Hot.

No, it just needs to be hot enough - not straight out of a kettle.

 

[Sprocket.]

Agree with having to turn them inside out and washing and drying them.
We used to have a block of stainless steel shaped like a bar of soap. It removes all offensive smells from your hands, like onion, fish, inside marigold gloves. I don’t know how it works, witchcraft I surmised.

 

[WouldBe]

I think it should And I can bear it a lot hotter with gloves on

I just use a dishwasher.

 

[wayward bob]

the heat of the surrounding water is making you sweat. alllll the glove smell comes from your (marinated, matured) sweat and associated hand cheese. sorry

 

[weltweit]

I never buy or use them, I wash in warm to hot water, with fairy liquid, always bearable with hands.

Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face

Then I air dry my plates etc .. no point wasting a tea towel on drying them as they will dry on their own.

 

[moose]

I wear them to dye things. I suspect the smell of the dye is stronger than the smell of the 'golds.
Last time there was a teensy hole in one of them bastards and I had a green hand for a week.

 

[Orang Utan]

I wear them to dye things. I suspect the smell of the dye is stronger than the smell of the 'golds.
Last time there was a teensy hole in one of them bastards and I had a green hand for a week.

You dye clothes in this day and age?

 

[t0bytoo]

what do people use them for? painting and decorating? i want to use gloves for working on my bike but they're either too thin or too thick

I wear them when I go scuba diving in cold water. They fix onto the arms of a drysuit. Sometimes they rip and I get cold hands.

I also have a fucked up skin condition on my fingers so use them for washing dishes and chopping. Pain in the arse, but...

 

[platinumsage]

Aye, that’s what I use, but they keep splitting. Also use those plastic pinnies so I don’t get grease on my threads

Search for extra tough nitrile disposable ones, often marketed at tattooists.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

What are wugs?

Washing Up Gloves.

 

[Epona]

OH has on occasion worn really heavy duty gloves for professional dishwashing, sometimes the places he works at rinse them with bleach, he has come home with chemical burns on his hands and halfway up his arms before now (he still has scars on his arms from a particularly bad incident), and he isn't the only one in the industry that happens to sometimes. I encouraged him to get his own and carry them around with him from job to job. Not marigolds mind you, we're talking those thick gloves.

 

[danski]

Search for extra tough nitrile disposable ones, often marketed at tattooists.

Yeah, and although not waterproof or anything I use Puggy gloves for work.
Polyurethane. Nice and thin yet still protect. I buy 50-100 at a time.

 

[Epona]

Yeah, and although not waterproof or anything I use Puggy gloves for work.
Polyurethane. Nice and thin yet still protect. I buy 50-100 at a time.

I use Stanley Razor Gripper gloves for work - not waterproof but offer protection against abrasions and allow manual dexterity and a non-slip grip, also they come in a size small enough for my ridiculously small child sized hands which is really important, wading around in a pair of rigger's gloves several inches too big is not even safe. £5 a pop and last a decent amount of time.

EDIT: Sorry, getting well off track here, sorry for derail!

 

[campanula]

I had a good sniff of my latex gardening gloves...which I do wear otherwise my hands would be even more haggard than they already are, Possibly because I never wear gloves for washing up although I do use blisteringly hot water. Anyway, my garden gloves just smell nicely of soil.

 

[Orang Utan]

I use Stanley Razor Gripper gloves for work - not waterproof but offer protection against abrasions and allow manual dexterity and a non-slip grip, also they come in a size small enough for my ridiculously small child sized hands which is really important, wading around in a pair of rigger's gloves several inches too big is not even safe. £5 a pop and last a decent amount of time.

EDIT: Sorry, getting well off track here, sorry for derail!

nah, you're deffo on topic

 

[StoneRoad]

I don't use gloves for washing up, at least partially 'cos we've a dishwasher (just a little bench top one) - I use water as hot as I can stand, always have done.

In the garden I use gloves, especially when weeding, pruning or dry stone walling and at other times when needing protection. Even decent ones don't last that long, unfortunately. So I've got a load of part used LH gloves.
But I do wear latex or vinyl ones in the workshop, mainly for painting or when using glue or sealant. I get a box of 100 for myself as no-one else has little hands. They fit either hand, and I sometimes swop them by mistake during the day. Which reminds me - need to re-order soon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

associated hand cheese

(((5t3IIa's cheesy hands)))

 

[skyscraper101]

I too like SheilaNaGig wear them so I can use really hot water. They're also added protection from sharp things. And I use them when I'm taking out the bins or cleaning the toilet etc

I'm down with Thatch when it comes to rubber gloves

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[Mogden]

I've got paper thin skin on the backs of my hands so I wash up with Marigolds on and have the water roasting hot. I've written the date I opened the pair I'm currently using on them as I was getting total time blindness about how long they last. I've tried other brands too. Wilkos own, Aldi own but nothing thus far has matched the gripiness. Others are leakproof but every pot and plate becomes like a bar of soap to pick up. Mine only start to whiff when I get a tiny hole in them from my over eager fingernail.

 

[JimW]

Have to remember to wear gloves for any yard work in the early part of the winter here as it's so cold and dry your hands crack really badly, then you can't wash up either. Never had to bother back home. Weirdly I seem to adjust after a month or two and can get away with it in the later it of winter, not that you do much that time of year.

 

[moose]

You dye clothes in this day and age?

Yes of course, doesn’t everyone?

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes of course, doesn’t everyone?

Not me. Just buy stuff in the colours I want so no need

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yes of course, doesn’t everyone?

I use crayons.

 

[Elpenor]

Ex used to wear ones that went up to the elbow (obtained from a Korean grocery store) and wash them using some sort of treatment.

Me I can’t abide them. Whatever nasties are in washing up liquid are better than the feeling of marigolds on my skin