I generally don't take too many safety precautions when I use cleaning products. When things like Windex & Comet & 409 spray say that I ought to avoid contact with skin, I don't really take the warning very seriously. If I did, then I would wear rubber gloves when I used them. Of course, I wash my hands after using them. All they ever do is make my skin a little dry, and I can live with a little dry skin. That's what lotion's for, right?
The one exception is oven cleaner. I religiously wear gloves when using oven cleaner. That stuff is lethal. If I could hold my breath and keep my eyes squeezed shut while cleaning the oven, I totally would. I think that when they invented oven cleaner, they must have sat down and tried to come up with the most lethal combination of chemicals possible. I'm pretty sure they succeeded. That is the nastiest cleaning agent I've ever come across.
Tonight I sprayed down my oven so I could clean it tomorrow morning, so of course, before releasing the toxic poisons into the air, I put on my rubber gloves, which are only ever used for cleaning ovens. Now I've probably cleaned about 3 ovens with these gloves, & I've made sure to clean them thoroughly after doing so. So when I pulled them on tonight, I figured they'd be just fine. Wrong. I put on the left glove; no problems there. I put on the right glove and begin to adjust it. As I pull it into place, the thumb falls off. Hmm... I guess even rubber gloves give way to lethal cleaning toxins after a while, but I'd hate to see what would happen to my real thumb if I hadn't been wearing the gloves.
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you're supposed to wear gloves with that stuff??
when i lived in NJ, i constantly worked with that stuff but never once picked up to read it, no wonder my hands almost shriveled up and died.
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