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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:12 p.m. VanillaSky HalfDork

  Alright, I can clearly recall the hand cleaner article in the mag a bit back. That helps great with getting your hands clean. How do you get the rest of you clean? Like when you're under your grease-coated Jeep after washing down everything you can and all of that grease now coats you. Clothes don't matter, it soaks RIGHT through.

  I showered with Dawn with HOT water, and it helped, but I'm still feeling grease coated.

  Outside of donning a hazmat suit while under there, how would you get clean after looking like you just came off of the BBQ?

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:13 p.m. novaderrik Reader

  it doesn't come off. it becomes a part of you.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:27 p.m. SVreX SuperDork

  Find a girl who likes 'em charbroiled??

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:29 p.m. unevolved HalfDork

  Buy massive jugs of pumice soap at Costco.

  Texas A&M Racing

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:33 p.m. Osterkraut Dork

  Hazmat Suit.

  

  I'm Jeremy Clarkson with better hair.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:34 p.m. benzbaron HalfDork

  Hand soap + borax. The borax provides mechanical action to get the tough grease out. Remember before everyone became wimpy borax was the original man's soap.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:35 p.m. Junkyard_Dog HalfDork

  Palmolive. Easy on the skin but cuts grease. Somehow the key is to shower with it every day and once you're good and dirty it works better. I'm a professional tech and its all I've used for the last 15 years. I work on Rovers. They leak a LOT and get me VERY dirty.

  Oh and wear rubber gloves. No matter how dirty the rest of you is you can cover up everything but your hands. It will feel odd at first, but now i can't work without them.

  I love going to the Pull-a-Part because the dollar admission is cheaper than most car shows and you almost always see cooler cars.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:36 p.m. Toyman01 Dork

  Goop and coffee grinds is supposed to work wonders. Buy a better dish-washing liquid.

  If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? - Steven Wright

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:47 p.m. Toyman01 Dork

  I was working at the Bosch plant here in Charleston a few weeks ago and they use this stuff.

  It worked so much better than the usual stuff I ordered some for my shop. Even with a combination of grease, ground aluminum, and rust on my hands it came right off.

  Solopol

  If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? - Steven Wright

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:51 p.m. VanillaSky HalfDork

  I think I'm gonna get some Borax to go with my soap.

  When I'm outside and need my hands/arms clean, I just pick up some clean sand to go with my Dawn.

  I do wear nitriles most of the time. Tonight was a bit of an oddity because I got dirty unintentionally.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 9:55 p.m. EvanB Dork

  Or just get some Boraxo, powdered soap with borax, works great.

  

  Formerly jdmae92

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  Aug. 16, 2010 11:01 p.m. TucoRamirez Reader

  Shampooing with the coffee grinds smells nice, but your dandruff will think a boatload of Haitians just arrived.

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  Aug. 16, 2010 11:02 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

  I like the fact that HE has on the hazmat suit but there's nothing covering the carpet.

  Osterkraut wrote: Hazmat Suit.

  "mobilito ergo sum" I drive therefore I am!

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  Aug. 17, 2010 12:30 a.m. Matt B Reader

  I just use the orange hand cleaner in my hair and everywhere else while showering. Maybe not the cheapest way, but it sure works.

  Might have to try the Borax method next . . .

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  Aug. 17, 2010 7:17 a.m. itsatrap New Reader

  When I was younger and used to work at a rubber plant, the only thing that would wash away the carbon black was Dawn dish detergent, I tried other brands but nothing worked as good as some Ultra Strength Dawn antibacterial. So i can't really recommend anything beyond that.

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  Aug. 17, 2010 7:27 a.m. MrJoshua SuperDork

  carguy123 wrote: I like the fact that HE has on the hazmat suit but there's nothing covering the carpet.

  Osterkraut wrote: Hazmat Suit.

  Rental!

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  Aug. 17, 2010 11:37 a.m. Matt B HalfDork

  You can rent Hazmat suits? I need one for my tick-infested backyard, lol

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  Aug. 17, 2010 11:40 a.m. mtn SuperDork

  Lava soap. Scrape it off, feels great.

  there’s a lot of debate on this subject—about what kind of car handles best. Some say a front-engined car; some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car.

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  Aug. 17, 2010 1:38 p.m. 93celicaGT2 SuperDork

  And here's where i get to sound like the stereotypical "BRO."

  Axe has a bodywash that's yellow called "Snake Peel."

  It's got granules in it. Use that, plus one of their "body detailing tools" and you'll get ANYTHING off of you.

  No matter how dirty i get, i can look like i just took a naked bath in a vat of oil, coolant, trans fluid and sludge, (and i did two weeks ago on that goddamn saturn) 10 minutes maximum in the shower with that combo, and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

  SCAVENGE THE SEA FLOOR FOR NUTRIENTS

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  Aug. 17, 2010 2:41 p.m. Powar Dork

  93celicaGT2 wrote: and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

  But is anyone as dope as you?

  '90 Miata / '68 95 / '69 96 DeLuxe / '73 Sonett III / '90 900S / '91 900 / '85 Hilux

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  Aug. 17, 2010 2:54 p.m. SilverFleet Reader

  At the risk of sounding feminine, get a loofah (sp?). Steal your wifes, your girlfriends, or go buy your own. Axe even makes one for dudes; It's called the Shower Tool or something like that. I have one, and it kicks butt for getting the grime off.

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  Aug. 17, 2010 3:01 p.m. 93celicaGT2 SuperDork

  Powar wrote:

  93celicaGT2 wrote: and i pop out looking so fresh and so clean (clean!).

  But is anyone as dope as you?

  Not hardly.

  SCAVENGE THE SEA FLOOR FOR NUTRIENTS

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  Aug. 17, 2010 5:55 p.m. 2002maniac HalfDork

  I don't need no stinking loofah, i use scotch-brite pads and dawn. Works a treat!

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  Aug. 17, 2010 7:00 p.m. Wally SuperDork

  Put a small bottle of Tide in a hot tub. By the time you finish a six pack you will be cleaner than you've been in years. Works best with someone else's hot tub

  "You should never point a loaded gun at anyone. This is not a hard and fast rule, however. A hard and fast rule is that you should never, ever, point an unloaded gun at anyone." P.J. O'Rourke

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  Aug. 17, 2010 7:36 p.m. wlkelley3 HalfDork

  I have found a textured washcloth helps. My Korean wife gets these washcloths from an Asian store that are advertised as back washcloths, they are long. I fold them to size. They come plain or padded with a soft side. Kinda like a scotch-brite pad made for bodies. Not as hard on the skin as a scotch-brite and a little more textured that a loofah (and definately more manly ).

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