[simon knight]

I'm trad but use DI water when doing insides (no soap so just down blading wiping the blade every stroke).

I buy a 5ltr canister from Halfords(it's really battery top-up water but I guess it amounts to the same thing)!

Thing is that since I've started using pure water I've found that my hands are like sand paper and very very dry.

It never happens with tap water and a splosh of Fairy...why is this?

[mlscontractcleaner]

Didn't you know that hands that do dishes are as soft as your face

[Martin ccs]

i never used to get this either but after this winter my hands dry up v bad - crack and bleed alot.

using just tap water and fairy.

think its just the cold conditions we have had.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

get it every yr really black hand dry cracked
split bleed

[paul rulton]

get it every yr really black hand dry cracked
split bleed

felt nice n soft the other nite lammy

[simon knight]

get it every yr really black hand dry cracked
split bleed

felt nice n soft the other nite lammy

Nah, you don't strike me as an iron Hitman 

[paul rulton]

HELL NO!! THATS IT NO MORE JOKES LIKE THAT FROM ME ANYMORE
THANKS SI 4 POINTING THAT OUT

[dazmond]

why bother simon?fairy and normal tap water do the job!i could understand if you were mainly wfp.not trad.

as for cracked bleeding hands ive never had this problem in 16 years of trad window cleaning!i hardly ever wear gloves either and if i do its only for the first hour if its really cold!!

i only ever use green fairy.

regards

dazmond

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

To answer your question it is because pure water is very agressive therefore it will strip you hands of any of its natural oils. My advice would be to use Neutrogena to stop them spliting.

[Ian Lancaster]

I've suffered with cracked skin on my hands every winter for as long as I can remember.

I use pure lanolin.  It's waxy and a bit unpleasant to put on, but it protects against everything the weather can throw at me.  It's 100% natural (extracted from sheeps wool).

Ask your pharmacist.

[simon knight]

why bother simon?fairy and normal tap water do the job!i could understand if you were mainly wfp.not trad.

as for cracked bleeding hands ive never had this problem in 16 years of trad window cleaning!i hardly ever wear gloves either and if i do its only for the first hour if its really cold!!

i only ever use green fairy.

regards

dazmond

The reason for using DI inside is that with the smaller windows I tend to rag and think that there's less chance of smearing with pure water than tap water and the green stuff.

Defo going to get some neutrogena or that lanolin stuff today. The tips of my fingers have split...bloody sore

[ftp]

Get a Snowfire stick from the chemist. Brilliant stuff takes all the pain away and really helps.

[simon knight]

Snowfire...I think my gran used to use that! If it's been around this long it must be good. Thanks.