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I've used hand cleaners as long as I've been working on cars. If I tell you how many years that is, I'll have to kill ya. Suffice to say it's been a long time.
Yeah, there are those rubber gloves but there are aspects of the way I do things which are decidedly oldskool. Unless I'm working with toxic or hazardous materials or objects which are hot, I don't use gloves.
Back in my days in the automotive service trade, most places I worked bought heavy-duty hand cleaners in 2.5 gallon pails from service station supply houses. This stuff was sometimes detergent-based and usually had fine pumice mixed in it. Those products always got my hands clean with only modest discomfort to my skin.
When I quit the service trade and went to work as a magazine technical writer, I was still working on cars but access to that good hand cleaner became difficult and out of frustration, I started using the various hand cleaners available to hobbyists and DIYs, such as "GoJo", "Fast Orange", "Goop Multi-Purpose" and others. Many of the ones I used had solvents in them and could be used with or without water. The most recent of these was Sunshine Makers' "Simple Green Hand Cleaner Gel" which, I'm sorry to say, is the only Simple Green branded product I've ever used which performed short of my expectations.
I decided I had to get away from mass-marketed, consumer products because they either didn't do a good job cleaning or the solvents in them didn't do my skin any good. So...one morning, while nursing my first cup of coffee, on a whim, I put "best hand cleaner" in Google. The first hit which was www.handscrub.com, a web site run by Southwest Commercial Products which markets only one product–"Super Tough Hand Scrub".
The homepage was a bit dramatic, having audio with a deep, intense voice asking, "Have you tried other hand cleaners that just didn't get the job done? Or they left your hands cracked, dry and damaged? Are you embarrassed to show your hands? Join the thousands who use Super Tough...blah, blah, blah."
Initially, the hype had me a skeptic but, after reading the rest of the content, watching a video and noting Southwest Commercial Products has a 100% money-back guarantee, I decided Super Tough, with it's distinctive yellow color, detergent-based formula and soft, polymer "scrubber" particles (instead of the more abusive pumice of cheaper hand cleaners) was worth a try. I emailed Southwest Commercial Products and asked them to ship me some samples.
I tested Super Tough for two months. I used it to clean my hands after all kinds of automotive work, including the most dirty, nasty job I've done in the last few years, repacking a set of C5 CV joints. Super Tough Hand Scrub is, by far, the best hand cleaner I've ever used. It cleans better and it's easier on my hands. While Super Tough is a little more costly, it's a great value when used as directed because, compared to all other hand cleaners, I need less of it to do the same amount of hand cleaning.
So–I've found the perfect hand cleaner. I'll never use anything other than Super Tough Hand Scrub, again. My hands are clean and their skin is healthy. Life is good.
For more information visit www.handscrub.com or contact Southwest Commercial Products, Inc., 2436 Ludelle St., Fort Worth TX 76105 tel. 800-227-6994.
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Technical Writer for Internet & Print Media
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Registered: January 2001
Location: Southern California