"Steve B" > wrote in message
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> "maxine in ri" > wrote in message
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> On Sep 25, 12:56 pm, Kalmia > wrote:
>> I don't know how many of you read 'Annie's Mailbox', an advice column
>> which appears in my paper.
>> A while back, a seeker of help wrote to complain that someone had come
>> into her kitchen from the out of doors, (had played golf I think it
>> was) and washed his hands at her kitchen sink. She was appalled and
>> chided the dirty-handed one for not using her bathroom sink.
>>
>> Annie agreed that the writer was rightly indignant.
>>
>> Well, the letters must've come in carloads. One person said that a
>> sink was a sink, whether food was prepared in the area of not. My
>> feeling was ' heck, I don't mix ingredients in the sink - what's the
>> big deal? I keep my kitchen sink reasonable scrubbed.
>>
>> Your reaction to this handwashing brouhaha? Just curious.
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> My DH will wash his greasy, grimey, motor-dirtied hands at the ktichen
> sink because dishsoap is better than just about anything for getting
> the grease off. I have to wipe the sink down afterwards (well, he
> does the dishes, it's a fair division of labor imho), but so what?
> That way, at least, the grime he tracks in goes no further than the
> kitchen, so there's less floor to clean up.
>
> just my $0.02
> maxine in ri
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> Be careful. I used Dawn to clean up after working with steel. It is
> treated with a light oil. The Dawn takes off the oil, but it also takes
> out the skin oil to the point of cracking and bleeding. Most cheap
> dishwashing soaps are the same, regardless of how they tout they have
> lotion in them. If they have lotion in them, wouldn't the dishes be so
> slippery they would slip from the hands?
>
> Steve
>

So apply some hand lotion after you wash your hands. It's a no-brainer

Jill