We all know trimming sucks. My least favorite part, though, is the sticky fingers and resin buildup. I could wear gloves, but I’m not very dexterous and my hands are huge, so gloves fit me poorly, even the big ones. I used to use isopropyl to get the resin off, but it will fuck up your hands if you do it too much, plus isopropyl is literally impossible to buy in stores lately (always sold out).
Then someone told me to use cooking oil. Rub a teaspoon of it on your hands and fingers, then wash off with dish soap. HOLY CRAP it took it right off and my hands are more moisturized than when I started.
It may not be a new technique, but it’s new to me, it works BETTER than alcohol, and I wanna shout it from the rooftops. I’d literally never heard of this technique before, ever.
You can clean almost any oil based paint off your hands with cooking oil / dishwashing soap combo. Even paint brushes too. Never though to try it for sticky fingers thanks!
Simple green is awesome for that too, and it works very well for cleaning pipes also. They claim it’s all natural and non toxic, it’s really nice stuff.
Simple Green does work for pipes and hands, they even claim you can drink it haha (it does smell delicious and it looks like green river soda), it’s just not very “aggressive” I’ve found. Definitely takes longer to de-gunk a pipe but hot simple green works pretty good.
I’ve always used hand sanitizer, its basically isopropyl with skin conditioners in it. But with it being hard to find, I may use the cooking oil trick next.
@MotherTeresa Thanks for the tip, but I don’t think it would work on my pipes, because I only use wooden corn cobs. I wouldn’t risk boiling them. And I only ever use the alcohol on the pipe cleaners I use to ream them out with. However, others may benefit from your advice.
