Shaving cream on your hands


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Posted by chriscase on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 09:25:44 :

In Reply to: Re: Never heard of cutting foam posted by Tim Holloway on Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 12:32:46 :

If I remember, I coat my hands with shaving foam before doing greasy, painty, or inky work. Rub it in 'til it dissapears. It fills the pores so the gunk doesn't. Then, at clean up time, it's soapiness helps wash the gunk away. I know, lots of you guys wear surgical gloves. But big guy that I am, as soon as I put those on, my skin breaks out in small warts of sweat.

But, shaving foam would probably act as a good lubricant too. Soaps are similar to waxes. With the possible down side of being oxidisers, and promoting rust, as well as being hygroscopic and attracting moisture out of the air.

Some very popular cutting fluids are water based, with anti freeze. Some popular soapy things are water based, with ani-freeze like additives- mono, di, ply,- ethylene glycols.

Maybe I'll try some next time I do some metal work. And/or a corrosion test on a clean piece of steel? Let it set a couple days, see if the soapy patch rusts faster than the clean surface? Perhaps the kind with Aloe will keep the steel from work hardening?

So that 'cutting foam' may have been just shaving cream. I learned about using it as a skin protectant when I peeled the paper label off of a can of protectant and underneath was the painted on label from the soap company.



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