Hand Care

Mechanic’s work is often associated with a variety of greasy and grimy repair and maintenance projects. These may not just be a messy business for your work area but also leave your hands dirty and in poor condition. Prolonged exposure to gasoline, grease, different oils, paints, and solvents cause the skin on your hands to dry out, crack, and fray. Working in protective gloves as well as using hand care products will help you protect and nourish your skin.

Whether you are a professional or a hobby mechanic, you will probably have to deal with grease, grime, and strong chemical solvents on a regular basis. Protecting your hand from harsh irritants and cleaning them with specialized gentle hand cleaners will help you avoid painful occupational skin disease. There is a wide variety of mechanic’s hand care products and cleaners developed to cope with the toughest automotive grease without damaging the skin of your hard-working hands. Cleaning wipes, creams, lotions, soaps and paste-style cleaners will help you deal with difficult-to-remove substances and moisturize your skin.

If your workplace allows for constant access to a water source, then hand soaps will probably be your first choice. Ideally suited for the needs of automotive technicians, cleaning soaps remove all kinds of grime and grease, leaving your hands feeling soft. Paste-style hand cleaners require adding just a small amount of water and will effectively cope with stains and harsh odors. Another commonly used type of hand cleaners is pre-moistened cleaning wipes and towels. Featuring a powerful cleaning formula, these heavy-duty wet wipes will remove the toughest soils from your hands, tools and surfaces, requiring no rinsing or drying.

Using cleaning cream is another way to remove grease, grime, tar, adhesives and paints without water. Being fortified with a variety of skin conditioners, including natural oils, aloe, glycerin, lanolin, etc., cleaning hand creams are extra mild and will leave your skin smooth and not sticky. Pumice creams and scrubs ensure deeper cleaning effect, ideal for removing semi-dried glazes left on your skin by adhesives. Cleaning hand lotions provide a non-toxic, freshly scented and waterless way to remove even the most difficult soils. Cleaning creams and lotions can be either self-dispensed or used with the push type dispensers.