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I normally wear light duty cut resistant fabric gloves (nitrile on the fingers). As far as picking up small things: easy just take one glove off and put back on afterwards, also a tight fit makes a world of difference.
Mostly I just wear gloves when working with chemicals, for ordinary wrenching I mostly do it bare handed, but, I am a DIY guy and I do occasionally wash my engine bays, so my cars are not as dirty as what a pro would see day in day out. And I am usually wrenching 4 to 6 hours per weekend, so I am not beating my hands up with harsh cleaners 2 or 3X every day.
Edited to add - I do wear regular cloth work gloves, or leather gloves, when doing tire work. Tires just get too damn grubby to handle bare-handed.
I should look into some of the better surgical type gloves. If a guy transplanting a heart can do it wearing gloves, seems to me I should be able to do all that I do gloved up too. (Although, I imagine "real" surgical gloves are a good bit better than what we would normally find on the shelf, with a price tag that reflects it.)
Always the $3.99 Harbor Freight gloves. I've used them for so long that my hands have adapted to having them on. No trouble working on pretty much anything.
Never wear gloves except when working on brakes. Just something about brake dust that I don't like it on me. Otherwise, I use straight mineral oil to remove any grease/oil/dirt. It doesn't dry the skin and is used a lot in cosmetics to hydrate the skin. It is a petroleum product and as such is made from the same hydro-carbons as the grease and oil. It's a natural cleansing agent for any hydro-carbon product.
I use nitrile gloves for oil, diff lube and any other fluid changes and Harbor Freight Hardy gloves for wrenching.
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