Every wonder how to avoid chapped hands after heavy-duty cleaning or gardening? There's an easy solution: liberally apply hand cream to hands before you pull on garden or thick dish gloves. As you work up a sweat doing your task, your hands will indulge in a spa treatment. The added bonus is that you will be more likely to wear gloves around cleaners you may not think damage your skin, like floor cleaners; thus, keeping your hands and skin happy and healthy all the time.
Also, run your fingernails across a bar of soap before heading off to the garden. The soap will prevent dirt from sinking into the depths of your nails and it provides an easy way to clean your hands afterwards. Keep your hands looking as good as your garden.
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How do you keep the inside of these gloves clean, then, to prevent bacterial growth in them? Ewww yuck!
ReplyYou can do a few things. You can turn the gloves inside out to dry. If they're plastic and your doing cleaning, they should be the last thing you wash, both inside and out. Regardless of whether or not you use hand cream before cleaning, you should keep your gloves clean. Even a bit of sweat without hand cream can lead to bacteria.
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