Body Wash

Alright, I can clearly recall the hand cleaner article in the mag a bit back. That helps great with getting your hands clean. How do you get the rest of you clean? Like when you're under your grease-coated Jeep after washing down everything you can and all of that grease now coats you. Clothes don't matter, it soaks RIGHT through.

I showered with Dawn with HOT water, and it helped, but I'm still feeling grease coated.

Outside of donning a hazmat suit while under there, how would you get clean after looking like you just came off of the BBQ?

it doesn't come off. it becomes a part of you.

Find a girl who likes 'em charbroiled??

Buy massive jugs of pumice soap at Costco.

Hazmat Suit.

Hand soap + borax. The borax provides mechanical action to get the tough grease out. Remember before everyone became wimpy borax was the original man's soap.

Palmolive. Easy on the skin but cuts grease. Somehow the key is to shower with it every day and once you're good and dirty it works better. I'm a professional tech and its all I've used for the last 15 years. I work on Rovers. They leak a LOT and get me VERY dirty.

Oh and wear rubber gloves. No matter how dirty the rest of you is you can cover up everything but your hands. It will feel odd at first, but now i can't work without them.

Goop and coffee grinds is supposed to work wonders. Buy a better dish-washing liquid.

I was working at the Bosch plant here in Charleston a few weeks ago and they use this stuff.

It worked so much better than the usual stuff I ordered some for my shop. Even with a combination of grease, ground aluminum, and rust on my hands it came right off.

Solopol

I think I'm gonna get some Borax to go with my soap.

When I'm outside and need my hands/arms clean, I just pick up some clean sand to go with my Dawn.

I do wear nitriles most of the time. Tonight was a bit of an oddity because I got dirty unintentionally.

Or just get some Boraxo, powdered soap with borax, works great.

Shampooing with the coffee grinds smells nice, but your dandruff will think a boatload of Haitians just arrived.

I like the fact that HE has on the hazmat suit but there's nothing covering the carpet.

Osterkraut wrote: Hazmat Suit.

I just use the orange hand cleaner in my hair and everywhere else while showering. Maybe not the cheapest way, but it sure works.

Might have to try the Borax method next . . .

When I was younger and used to work at a rubber plant, the only thing that would wash away the carbon black was Dawn dish detergent, I tried other brands but nothing worked as good as some Ultra Strength Dawn antibacterial. So i can't really recommend anything beyond that.

carguy123 wrote: I like the fact that HE has on the hazmat suit but there's nothing covering the carpet.

Osterkraut wrote: Hazmat Suit.

Rental!

You can rent Hazmat suits? I need one for my tick-infested backyard, lol

Lava soap. Scrape it off, feels great.

And here's where i get to sound like the stereotypical "BRO."

Axe has a bodywash that's yellow called "Snake Peel."

It's got granules in it. Use that, plus one of their "body detailing tools" and you'll get ANYTHING off of you.

No matter how dirty i get, i can look like i just took a naked bath in a vat of oil, coolant, trans fluid and sludge, (and i did two weeks ago on that goddamn saturn) 10 minutes maximum in the shower with that combo, and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

93celicaGT2 wrote: and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

But is anyone as dope as you?

At the risk of sounding feminine, get a loofah (sp?). Steal your wifes, your girlfriends, or go buy your own. Axe even makes one for dudes; It's called the Shower Tool or something like that. I have one, and it kicks butt for getting the grime off.

Powar wrote:

93celicaGT2 wrote: and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

But is anyone as dope as you?

Not hardly.

I don't need no stinking loofah, i use scotch-brite pads and dawn. Works a treat!

Put a small bottle of Tide in a hot tub. By the time you finish a six pack you will be cleaner than you've been in years. Works best with someone else's hot tub

I have found a textured washcloth helps. My Korean wife gets these washcloths from an Asian store that are advertised as back washcloths, they are long. I fold them to size. They come plain or padded with a soft side. Kinda like a scotch-brite pad made for bodies. Not as hard on the skin as a scotch-brite and a little more textured that a loofah (and definately more manly ).