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Barrier Cream?

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Is barrier cream still on sale?
I tried to get some before starting on a messy DIY job to do with a lawn mower!
I have tried Boots etc Tracy or Sharon just look blankly!
I have tried the local Apotek in Denmark for "Adskillelse Fløde", simlar blank expressions.
So I used lots of Swarfega and a stiff nail brush afterwards and then resorted to my apres sailing stuff "Gardners Therapy".
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Try somewhere that sells GRP supplies, maybe?
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http://www.dermashield.co.uk/

used to use it in the darkroom......but not much recently.

Anybody else use it to protect against epoxy, G4, Balcotan, 2-packs?

does it work?

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Sadly all I seem to be able to source is those awful disposable gloves so next time I'll get the mower man!
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Do local engineers,workshops, car repairers still use it?
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Does this site help??

http://www.hand-cleaners.co.uk/index1.html

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The Active ingredient in all Barriers is "WSP", AKA White Soft Parrafin, or Vaseline. Expensive products add various scents or may use alternatives such as Lanolin ("Wool Fat") or Coconut Oil.

Another good product is Unguentum M. (Used to be made by Merck Pharmaceutucal and called Unguentum Merck surprisingly enough until taken over by Boots and re-named) This theoretically has a Lipophilic layer that protects the outside and a Hydrophilic layer that coats the skin keeping it moist. The main ingredients are Cetostearyl alcohol, Glyceryl Monostearate and Liqid Parafin + more WSP. Stearate as I recall is the main Polysaturated hydrocarbon Anion in simple soap.

For afters I use White spirit +/- Any cooking oil mixed with washing up detergent (Fairy or Squeezy) with a teaspoon of sugar or sand to work it into the cracks. If your skin can take it then washing up powder or even dishwasher soap but that needs ALOT of water afterwards to rinse (or risk an alkali burn)

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Neutrogena hand cream (carrying a suitably Scandinavian flag as its logo) works reasonably well as a barrier cream.
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Michael Brigg wrote:The Active ingredient in all Barriers is "WSP", AKA White Soft Parrafin...
Ah, available in small plastic buckets from Boots as "Aqueous Cream BSP" - in which form it washes off easily in water

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Hi
Friends of mine use "udder cream" available from most farming outlets . Never tried it myself but it sounds a bit of a laugh.
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Alan Williams said:-
Friends of mine use "udder cream"
Watch out for the moderator, this has potential to go sooo waaay of topic!!! :? :shock: :oops:
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Oh dear..... Lanolin, aka sheep fat. If it wasn't for the moderator I'd suggest that this is what they use at certain intimate moments as barrier cream - but only north and east of London.

superior sniggers all round!

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Well we understand about care in the regions :D :D :D :D
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Webmaster! Make Dave C stand on the naughty step for that one!
(fat chance of that..... bearing in mind many of the contributors are west country folk - and we all know about them don't we..... )

Least we think that this is not only a digression from topic but being rude to others....

For the Contender Book, I asked one of the leading Australian dinghy mast builders for some views on rigging Carbon Fibre masts. His best bit of advice - put a layer of lanolin between the stainless fitting and the carbon tube. He then ended a very detailed and serious letter with the comment, "just don't tell the Kiwis that you've used lanolin".

Maybe we're not so bad on here after all!

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