Waterless hand cleaner

[Matildas mate]

I am interested in getting feed back from boondockers (and others) who have used and can give recommendations or opinions about waterless hand cleaners.

I did a search of this forum on this and only found one thread on soap foam hand dispensers that didn’t provide information specific to “waterless” types of cleaners.

Here’s the Amazon search link for “waterless hand cleaner” listing the different brands and types...
https://www.amazon.com/waterless-hand-cleaner/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i:aps,k:waterless hand cleaner

 

[AMGS3]

Being from a family of mechanics I can tell you that in my family nobody considered GOJO a waterless experience. It was the first step of a multi step hand cleaning process that did include water.

Are you thinking of using it for just everyday hygiene (like to routinely wash your hands after cooking, etc? Because it's pretty rough stuff. It has gritty stuff meant to really scrub ground in grease and grime off your hands.

It does smell good though.

~angie

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[Matildas mate]

Are you thinking of using it for just everyday hygiene (like to routinely wash your hands after cooking, etc?

Yes.

 

[RVTravel]

Alcohol based hand cleaners are everywhere.

 

[AMGS3]

I've been making my own hand/body wipes for about a month now. This started because the water access that I had that was closest is frozen for the season. Iwas trying to cut down on cost and water usage without resorting to "sanitizing" my hands several times a day. I store mine in an old coffee container with a fitted lid.

You can find tons of recipes for diy hand and body wipes online, but at their simplest they usually contain the following-

One half of a big roll of bounty paper towels (cut to make 2 mini rolls, you just need one per batch. Save the other half for next time.)

1 & 3/4 cup of boiled water, cooled but still warm

1 teaspoon Dr. Bronner's liquid castile soap

1 teaspoon olive oil

Process - add water, soap, and oil to coffee container. Stir well to combine. Add half roll of paper towels. After a few min, pick up roll and flip it over. When the cardboard tube is saturated, pull it out of the center. Keep the lid on the container to keep the wipes from drying out. When you need a wipe, pull from the center of the tube.

This recipe is based on a recipe for diy baby wipes I got from a friend about 19 yrs ago. That recipe had baby shampoo and baby oil in it.

Changes/alterations - use whatever soap and oil suits you. The soap is to clean, the oil to prevent drying out your skin too much. I add a tablespoon of aloe vera to mine. Some people add a tablespoon of rubbing alcohol or vodka or witch hazel extract per batch. Some people add essential oils for a nice smell. I've made batches of these in gallon ziplock bags for camping.

Since I've been using these instead of water and soap for handwashing I've definitely been using less water daily. Each half-roll batch has over a hundred wipes in it. That's not bad for less than 2 cups of water.

Hope that helps,
~angie

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[Weight]

All those you listed are for heavy duty hand cleaning. They all have grit or solvent type cleaners to cut through dirt and grease. take your search to camping supplies and you could have better luck.

 

[MrNoodly]

Don't get your hands dirty in the first place. Wear nitrile gloves.

 

[Rainier70]

Maybe look at hospital type no rinse body washes. I'm not sure how they are on hand cleaning, but they are very gentle on your skin and still get you clean.

 

[maki2]

If you need to work on your vehicle or do jobs like painting or working with adhesives and such it can be very useful to have some heavy duty hand cleaning wipes around. You can find wipes for that at hardware and auto parts stores in small packets or even in large quantity buckets. Baby wipes don't always "cut it" meaning they won't remove all types of messes when it comes to cleaning your hands.

These waterless "industrial" hand cleaning wipes are very handy, I have used them now and again when I am working on projects in a place that does not have easy access to running water. For instance in the garage that has no running water, a situation where I don't want to stop work and go into the house. Of course using disposable gloves is likely a better idea in most such situations.

 

[Dingfelder]

The thing that bothers me about wipeless cleaners is that they still leave the stuff on you. That's why I always use paper towels to clean whatever i can off me while it is still liquid.

I remember reading a lot about this 40 years ago -- a lot of the supposedly antiseptic stuff of the day was very watered down to save costs. Doctors and other purchasing agents in hospitals were given huge discounts (often by truly extraordinarily attractive young saleswomen, in my not much later experience) to use it ... so they did. I think you might guess what else is implied here.

The result was a dramatic increase in just a few short years of infectious materials in doctors' offices. The ultra-cheap, diluted antiseptics were not living up to their name.

Therefore, to this day, I don''t rely 100% on them. I treat them more like a sort of water that is highly toxic to various microbes/viruses. I use them, then "towel off" with paper towels, and repeat two or three times. If I still feel anything oily or greasy, repeat cycle. We cannot trust the effectiveness of cleansers at the level of concentration they are sold at. Don't expect your health care professionals or any corporations to protect you. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

 

[MrNoodly]

If you need to work on your vehicle...

Do what professional mechanics do: wear gloves.

 

[introverting]

I like the everyone brand, coconut and lemon scented.  Another brand (EO) from the same company offers lavender and peppermint scent as well.  Supposedly the alcohol used in these products is safer for your body.

https://www.eoproducts.com/products/coconut-lemon-hand-sanitizer-gel

https://www.eoproducts.com/collections/hand-sanitizer