Dirt gets your hands clean

Strange but true.

Yonks ago a mate told me that Vim and Fairy liquid are as cheap a hand
cleanser as ever you will buy for loadsadosh in Halfords, just as
effective as any propriety brand according to him and today I have been
under the GS transferring the centre stand from the donor bike to the
Bloo one.

Needless to say my hands have got covered in that thick black shite that
no amount of overpriced detergents can ever shift and it just so happens
that I don't have any Vim but I did have a brain wave.

The "soil" close to my house is particularly sandy and free from organic
matter, more like dust really. So I chased the sparrows away from their
bath and used some of that plus the aforementioned fairy liquid as a
hand cleanser. **** me it worked a treat, right into the wrinkles as
clean as you like. As experiments go that one was a roaring success. I
call that a result.

 

FFS, have you never considered just buying some Swarfega? As cheap as
Vim+Fairy, I'm sure, with the added benefit that it doesn't remove the
top layer of skin and leave the rest dry, hard and wrinkled.

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I'll bet the sparrows & your next door wondered what in the name of
**** you where doing mind you....

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'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Sugar and washing up liquid has always worked a treat for me, not unlike the
above but slightly less wierd.

 

Well yes but always when I get to the cupboard with mucky paws and
realise I haven't got any because I forgot to get some the last time I
did exactly the same thing.

There is nothing dry, hard and wrinkled about my skin, particularly.
Especially considering it's age and experience. Anyway there is always
Nivea or a drop of olive oil.

 

Ordinary granulated or caster sugar?

 

Next door are used to my little ways. Which is why they don't talk to
me that much really I suppose.

And **** the sparrows and their largely vegetarian ways, until and
unless they start eating slugs they are not welcome in my garden.

 

An old druid making a potion.

 

Sir needs a duck.

 

Nige wrote

"Yes Officer, I'm know I'm writhing around naked on the ground smeared
with Fairy Liquid but honest Officer, I'm just having a dust bath, like
those sparrows do."

 

Close.

 

Flying mice.

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'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Demorera (sp?)

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'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Aren't you allowed to do that in your own garden?

 

I've tried sugar, but I find salt does the job better.

YMMV.

 

I love the smell of Swarfega and do have a little dispenser
downstairs, but IME Cif cream cleaner, or Tesco branded equivalent, is
about as good as it gets for cleaning oily crap off hands. Probably
dries skin out as you say, but maybe I've just got naturally oily skin
because I don't really suffer from using the stuff.

 

Nothing strange about it. You've just used a combination of detergent
and abrasive. Poor man's swarfega. If you want to try something more
crude, "soil" and cooking oil will do the same thing, though you'll
still need to use something to wash the soil and cooking oil off your
hands when you're done.

I've used table salt and vegetable oil in the past, when necessary.
Try sand and Duckhams Hypergrade or something - the method, chemistry
and result are the same.

 

R D S wrote

Front garden?

 

Yes, of course, I know all this, naturally. I was just amazed at how
thoroughly effective it was, much more so than the tub of industrial
gritty hand cleanser what ran out about 20 years ago.

Am I right in assuming that the high degree of effectiveness is due to
the very fine nature of the abrasive? Or is there something else going
on to do with it being soil rather than whatever it is (pumice?) that is
used in commercial products?

I now have a small pile of dirt in a box in the kitchen which I am going
to sieve to get the lumps out and mix with Fairy to a thick paste for
future use. Just for experimental purposes you understand, no chapatti
flour or peroxide at all, honest.

 

Feeds a duck?