Skin and Hand care
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Skin Care, Hand Care and Skin Health

Skin care while stripping furniture is essential. Effects of the chemicals necessary for refinishing furniture can range from mild irritation to severe chemical burns and blisters, depending on your skin sensitivity and can be very hard on the health of your skin. There are those, although rare, who aren't noticeably bothered by the chemicals, but the chemicals are designed to remove other chemicals and oils from whatever they get on. They aren't selective, they'll remove oil from wood, your garage floor, your driveway or your skin. Take the necessary precautions with skin care.

Quick aside for your garage floor.

If you have left over stripper and don't want to save it and you have an oil slick on your garage floor, spread the stripper on the oil and let it work. Before it dries, sprinkle sawdust or kitty litter over it and give it a little scrub with a stiff bristle brush, then sweep it up. It may not pull all of the oil out of the concrete, but it should look a whole lot better.

Be sure to dispose of the residue properly, don't put it in with your regular garbage, call your local garbage dump, oops, waste disposal facility and ask the waste disposal engineer, or more clearly, the garbage dump man how to dispose of it. See how much cleaner the floor looks? Think of your skin and proper skin care.

Pre Stripping Skin Care Preparation

Back to the more important part of good skin health and skin care while you're working with chemicals.

Skin health care preparation and skin care problem prevention can save you a lot of discomfort later.

The run of the mill foo foo smelling hand lotions are better than nothing, but good heavy duty skin protection is best. We used a lot of Bag Balm and Corn Huskers, then used vinyl stripping gloves.

The glove manufacturers may say that their gloves are almost indestructible, but it doesn't take much stripper on the gloves until the fingers are eight or ten inches long and the first thing you know, the end pulls off a glove finger. This will generally eventually happen to even the very heavy clumsy to work in gloves, so it's best to have as much pre-glove skin care preparation as possible.

Bag Balm

An old-time farmer's secret for chapped skin and minor cuts. Mild antiseptic prevents infection and softens skin. Active ingredients: 8-hydroxy-quinolinesulfate in a petrolatum and lanolin base.

Hard Workers Hand Lotion

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