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70herald said:
The single most effective cleaner know to man-kind are the nice clean towels the better half just hung in the bathroom. Guaranteed to remove any dirt you missed with the previous cleaner.
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Also garanteed to make you spend a few nights on the couch!
 
I have always found that doing a sink full of pots and pans will get my grease-laden fingernails purrty.
 
Hand kneading dough works well to get out the bits and stains the soap left behind.
 
Wow, with TR6Bill doing pots and pans and TR6oldtimer kneading dough...I guess if I get a TR6 as my next project car, I'll be spending a lot of time in the kitchen... :jester:
 
TR6oldtimer said:
Hand kneading dough works well to get out the bits and stains the soap left behind.
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Is engine oil low in cholesterol?
 
I use Gojos outside if I'm washing or a bar of lava soap inside. I find both work well.
 
I stumbled across "Reinol S" in Switzerland. It's a beige powder, and is billed as the worlds biggest selling hand cleaner, and could well be the stuff that you're talking about Shane. Nothing comes within a county mile of this stuff...I believe it's some kind of polymer mixed in with wood as an abrasive. It really is in a different league from any of the conventional hand cleaners, and as a plus, I don't smell like I've spent the day in a carbolic factory when the missus greets me!
https://www.reinol.com
 
That sounds exactly like what he was describing. Plus the fact that we can't get it here in the US...I'll check EBay...

Why is it that Europe has the coolest cars, the sexiest women, the Autobahn, and now the greatest hand cleaner??? What else???? :jester: :jester:
 
Why is it that Europe has the coolest cars, the <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">sexiest women</span></span>, the Autobahn, and now the greatest hand cleaner???

You've never visited Brazil, have you??? :devilgrin:
 
Personally I think the sexiest woman lives in my house
 
Shane said:
.... Why is it that Europe has the coolest cars, the sexiest women, the Autobahn, and now the greatest hand cleaner??? What else???? :jester: :jester:
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And all that while taking fewer baths or showers. Annual toilet soap consumption in the US was 2 kg per person, in Western Europe it was 0.8 kg, go figure...
 
They apparently don't bake enuff bread either...



...remind me to pass if ya show up with any baked goods, Ray. :devilgrin:
 
Doc, that reminded me of when I was younger. I used to spend the afternoons working on the Cortina or my friends B's with them And then go to work making pizza. The dough was great for cleaning under the finger nails. By the end of the night my nails were always clean!
 
And all the time the customers thought that was the anchovies!!! :devilgrin:
 
bugimike said:
I used to have a bar of Lava soap handy in the past too. Hmmm, wonder why I quit using it? It worked!!
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I can't get that here... do they still make it? I'll get my daughter to import some the next time she visits.


I use "White Spirit"- a light solvent, and then good ol' laundry soap powder- its nasty viscious stuff, but it works pretty well and cheaply. Then I have to wash it off....
 
Lava soap was the only soap that would lather in salt water. I loved it when I had a boat in the marine. After working in the bilges, into the water with soap in hand, scrub, scrub, just like a giant bathtub. Probably could not do that this day.
 
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