Anyone wear gloves while detailing?

All of the time. I use latex gloves when I hand apply my wax, and the more durable rubber gloves when I hand wash.
 
I use latex dishwashing gloves when I wash the car in the winter.



Sometimes I'll wear cheap latex gloves when I'll be handling MF for an entended period of time. MFs dry out my hands in no time.
 
Have several types...Nitrile, etc, for different chemicals. I always use gloves when working with tar removers and such where I might have long periods of time exposed to whatever is in the stuff I'm using. Never when waxing by hand, sometimes thin latex disposables with watery polishes like VM by hand. Fast Orange and soap used several times during a detailing. I sometimes use hand cream before working...I think it makes my skin less of a "dry sponge". Even though some soaps say "avoid prolonged exposure..." I never use gloves to wash but will use hand cream afterwards.
 
Hi DetailGirl, my wife is also a fellow detailer and she has the same problem so we bought some surgical gloves at WalGreens and they work great for her hands.
 
STBear said:
I only use gloves in the winter. Latex gloves over cotton.
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Same here. I don't really like wearing them then either but when it is 35 degrees with 25 mph winds, your hands get very cold when wet. :nervous2:



I've been detailing full time more than 10 years and I don't have a problem with detailing products drying out my skin other than sometimes very temporarily. Washing takes care of it.



I regularly wear sunblock though so that might have a moisturizing effect on my hands. :nixweiss
 
I don't use gloves for detailing but I use regular latex gloves quite often around the garage when actually *working* on a car, painting, or doing other dirty work.



Actually, the best I have found yet are for restaurants. They are food safe (sanitary), powder free, and are extra thick so they don't tear as easy as the surgical gloves do.
 
Never had the surgical glove tear on us and it maybe we use the green colored ones instead off the clear ones that are thinner that the green, Martin
 
I use gloves for a few things: winter washings of course, applying tire gels that leave your hands slippery, and anytime I am dealing with nasty chemicals like APCs, vinegar, tar remover, gas, etc.

I use both the purple Nitrile gloves and regular blue Latex; I think they come from Seargent Welch but I would have to check on that to be sure.
 
I try to use them as much as possible. For solvents, waxes, vinyl protectants etc. I also try to use a n95 mask for compounding and polishing. I guess i'm a wimp.
 
I tried using latex gloves yesterday when using tar remover on some particularly bad wheels. They fell apart after two minutes so I gave up with them. Guess I need to go and find the more robust variety.



I'm also going to try using barrrier cream instead.



Ben
 
I use rubber gloves due to engine cleaning chemicals. We probably all should pay closer attention to Chemicals being absorbed into our bodies while detailing. Inhalation, ingestion, absorbsion,and injection are the 4 ways our bodies get harmful chemicals into them. Proper ventilation is important too. I am glad this thread got started because many products contain potentially harmful chemicals.







Hats off to Salty and DetailGirl for being safety and health conscious, we all should follow their example. Who can detail using an oxygen tank ?





All this being said, DetailGirl, will you come do my car with THOSE gloves and That outfit on? Pleeeeeze ? ?:bounce
 
DetailGirl... I think you'd be the busiest detailer in town if you starting wearing that stuff from ebay! Could be a good marketing plan you have there! :D
 
I sometimes wear latex gloves while working the car etc. It keeps the abuse on the hands down to a min.



Detailgirl..I am sure that if you did wear those gloves for detailing your neighbors would have their faces against their windows looking for the rest of the outfit...:woot:
 
I use latex gloves when using Collinite IW (very "chemically") and if use Meguiar's #40 (rather greasy).



In the winter I use a rubber glove inside the wash mitt to keep dry. I have very thin women's :o gloves I wear when drying and waxing. They seem to resist the water penetrating. Kind of like those Isotoner gloves that Dan Marino used to do the commercial for :p
 
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