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GoJo works if you don't have water handy. Oddly, if you use it WITH water, it doesn't work as well as without.
But ordinary dishwashing liquids (with water) work the best. I've been using Dawn dishwashing liquids at the sink for 30+ years, never found anything better.
They are designed to cut grease, after all. No real surprise how well they work on car grease.
old time wrenchers laugh at the ones who use gloves.
Rubber gloves work good until you get a tear. Average time for that while working on an automobile engine is around two minutes. Granted some gloves are thick enough not to easily rip, but then you lose sensitivity. For example, putting a nut on a bolt while wearing gloves is hard to do.
when I worked at a gas station in the 70's we used gasoline than lava soap, just put on cornhuskers to restore moisuure to your hands.
Same here, gasoline, then lava or later GoJo, then cornhuskers lotion.
i put a bottle of Cornhuskers in the door pocket of my truck in 2002 when I bought it. I'm still using the same bottle, about 1/4 left. You can tell I don't wrench on cars or trucks much any more. LOL
3 pages of replies, and NOBODY remembers 'D&L hand cleaner'?? It was the almost white, creamy substance, that came in a metal tin. It would cut most any grime you could get your hands into. I haven't seen it in a long time, however.
I've been a "gearhead" all of my life, and today, I use Dawn dish detergent to get the grease from my hands, and if plain Dawn won't do it by itself, I have a soft hand/fingernail brush to get the rest. But, as has already been mentioned, nitrile gloves are a good thing to use.
Weird question, I know. My dad was a mechanic in the 80s and used some kind of creamy soap (I think it was in a container) to clean his hands. Does anyone know the name of it? Is it still used?
My dad was a mechanic too, had a shop from the 60's until 2003. We used to use carb cleaner if our hands were really bad; but for every day, he had a sand soap that was in a dispenser, it came out like sand; wasn't in a bar form. I'm not seeing it on google but am seeing recipes to make mechanics sand soap
I don't wrench any more but if I did, I'd probably use Dawn with a scrub brush.
Weird question, I know. My dad was a mechanic in the 80s and used some kind of creamy soap (I think it was in a container) to clean his hands. Does anyone know the name of it? Is it still used?
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