Invisible Glove
Latex gloves and the better purple nitrile gloves can be irritating to the skin, reduce the ability to feel what you're doing and are easy to drag, pinch, and tear when working on mechanical things. If you've ever tried to wind a wing nut or fiddle with a fastener with those thin, sticky gloves you know what I mean. With Invisible Glove, I can work with my hands directly on the job in front of me.
A tube of Invisible Glove for less than ten bucks will last months. You put it on once and work all day -- just one more application after you wash your hands to have a meal. With latex gloves, you're going to go through several pairs in a day and end up spending more money.
I do a lot of different things, some of them greasy and grimy like working on an old engine or painting and yard work, and others like client meetings and dinners out where nasty hands with grease under the nails just don't fly.
Invisible Glove is a simple, cheap solution. It goes on like a hand lotion -- just a bit greasier. It only makes your hands slippery if you put too much on. It works exactly like it says, though. Oil, grease, dirt, paint, solvents, and pretty much anything else just washes right off when you're done. No more greasy black fingernails and paint-stained hands.
Available from Amazon
Manufactured by BlueMagic
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james
How about wood stain (oil based or water based)? I would love to worry less about ruining my stain projects with gloves...
Joel
This stuff is great! It's the only stuff my dentist uses!
charley
$5.50 at Amazon. Not $3.00. But it is good stuff...
thom
I do not know if this is the same product, LeeValleyTool has a way about renaming things so it's harder to compare prices. But this product states that it will work against epoxies, paint and poison ivy.
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=2&cat=2,42551&p=10256
Michael McMillan
I have used this before when working with concrete, no gloves needed, when the day is done, your hands are not all dried out.
Andrew Pollack
@James - I've never had anything cause me problems with paint, but I'm not 100% sure about stain. I'll know next week though.
@Joel - LOL
ProfWombat
'Invisible Glove' would be inadequate protection in a doctor's or dentist's office, lor anywhere universal precautions against infectious disease are required.. Just sayin'.
Buck
How does it work for repelling water? Does water (not the soapy water you'll use to wash it off) bead off treated skin ?
Andrew Pollack
water doesn't easily wash it off. You need soap -- actually if you want no feel of it left at all, you need a good strong soapy wash. I use Gojo.
Andy K.
Before latex gloves were common place a trick was to rub your hands with a damp soap bar and let the soap dry on your hands. It provided a buffer/layer that washed off easily. This sounds like the same idea but better. I'll try if I see it somewhere.