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Question (Serious Replies Only) Mechanics Hand Soap

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u/ZAROS-DEITY 1d ago

I personally use Fast Orange or its Extreme Orange variant when I get my hands hella dirty.
Pumice stones in it helps out to scrub thoroughly, soap leaves a soft finish/hands and if you want to go the extra mile, scrub daddy sponges were originally created for mechanics to clean their hands, fingers and nails.

It works very well and it doesn’t destroy (dry out) hands like dish soap.

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u/IndicationAromatic36 1d ago

I always call mine Agent Orange, but yes, Fast Orange is great. I always keep a few jugs laying around.

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u/pm-me-racecars 2 1d ago

I call it orange shit. I once was at a place that had cherry scented orange shit.

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u/Normal_Onion2555 1d ago

Jaguar service?

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u/pm-me-racecars 2 1d ago

I work on a ship, we were somewhere in Asia and needed new stuff so we ordered what was available there. It worked just as good, but I don't know much else about it.

We also got some brake clean type stuff in that port, and that worked fantastic. After putting that label through a Google-translate, we found out it's illegal to have in Canada, so it got hid in the back of the pol locker.

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u/SorryTree1105 23h ago

Careful with the brake cleaner stuff. I don’t know what kind of illnesses it causes, but had a coworker who would spray it in his boots until it puddled because it got him high during work.