Hypoallergenic barrier creams and soaps

[Itsuey]

Does anyone know of any hypoallergenic barrier creams or good oil-removing soaps? We have really good granular soap at college but I'm horribly allergic to it and every other cleaning chemical I seem to come in to contact with and my hands are starting to fall apart. I tried to wear gloves to avoid the need for the soap but I'm allergic to them too. Someone somewhere must make these things for those of us with delicate skin.

[RikJonAtk]

You can get hypoallergenic gloves. My ex was allergic to latex so her employer had to get none-latex gloves for her to wear in the lab.

Alternatively I find the standard green swarfega gets oils and grease off well enough... the trick is to have dry hands when you first apply it, only use water to rinse it off afterwards.

[Krikkit]

Have you tried talc-free nitrile gloves? A bit harder wearing than latex, and useful for those allergic to it.

[smifffymoto]

Try O'keefes working hands,made by the gorilla glue company.Moisturiser for men,heal split and cracked skin without your hands going girly soft.

It is really good stuff,try it.

[Itsuey]

The only ones I've found I'm not allergic to are the neoprene ones they use in ambulances, unfortunately all of these gloves have a habit of making my hands sweat and apparently I'm allergic to that too :/

[Nickbrapp]

Dermol 500 is great for this, you need a bit more as it doesn't have the grit in it but it's anti bacterial and moisterising, you could add the little plastic balls that are in swafiga to help

[dudleybloke]

Just find a liquid soap you are OK with and use a bit of sand or sugar as an abrasive.

[paintman]

^^^^+1
On the occasions when I've run out of swarfega/comma etc I've found washing-up liquid/liquid hand soap & granulated sugar to be a reasonable alternative.

[RizzoTheRat]

Washing powder makes a surprisingly good alternative to swarfega/tufenaga too.

[Arnold Cunningham]

As noted above - have you tried Nitrile gloves. I never found barrier creams did anything useful, and as I have a day job where filthy hands just isn't de rigeur, I bulk buy nitrile gloves. Available in any colour sir chooses, too.

[Arnold Cunningham]

I've used salt as an abrasive too, combined with fairy liquid.

[Flibble]

I have problems with nitrile gloves (despite no latex allergy), I found using a thin cotton liner glove and one size up on the nitrile glove helps a lot. Is that something you can do OP?
Can't really help with soaps, I'm allergic to pretty much all of them. Solid bar soaps seem better, probably due to not containing sulfates.
Barrier creams, try Derma Shield. Best I've tried yet.

[motco]

In my teens when I'd been doing an especially grubby job on my old car I would clean my hands with Ajax scouring powder and water. If I were to try it now I'd like a skinless sausage in no time flat!