All right, fess up – who wears the things? I’m talking about for ordinary dishwashing, not for stripping paint or picking up dead mice. I don’t, but my wife does, and I’m beginning to think concern for dishpan hands has gone the way of ring around the collar.
And give an age range, if you will. Me and wife: just north of 40.
For dishwashing, no. But I do have vinyl gloves for handling raw meat and hot peppers.
Raises gloved hand. Me!
I use them for cleaning for a couple reasons – 1) I use some dangerous chemicals when I do my regular housework, and 2) I like to keep my nails nice, and cleaning destroys them.
I also use surgical gloves when I make anything with ground beef. The feel of it totally grosses me out.
Yes, I wear them for washing dishes. My rent house doesn’t have a dish washer & if I keep up with the dishes, there are never many to do. I like to rinse with really hot water.
And I try to remember gardening gloves. It’s more fun to just grub around bare-handed. But the cuticles suffer.
(In my 50’s.)
Raising gloved hand
I wear surgical gloves for everything. When cleaning, they keep my hands from being destroyed by the cleaning products. When cooking, I also abhor the feel of raw meat, but the gloves also keep my hands smelling fresh when cutting onions, peppers and the like. While gardening, they keep the dirt out from under my nails. Seriously, we keep a box of them in the kitchen at all times.
I am 35.
I forgot about the gardening gloves. They’re a must. I’m in my 50s as well.
I do 'cause otherwise I just won’t do the dishes at all. I hate having my hands in water with old food. BTW, I’m just south o’40.
I wear them when I clean using chemicals and while doing dishes. They protect my nails from breaking and my skin from drying out.
I also use thin cotton gloves occasionally at night. I’ll slather my hands with Aquaphor, slide on the gloves and wake up to smooth skin.
And I’m 26.
I do not use them for dishwashing, just things like staining wood. My wife does not use them either. I guess I do about 75% of the dishwashing.
Jim
Nope, don’t use them for dishes. 40.
My husband doesn’t either, but it’s not like he ever does the dishes. 38. (I’m not actually complaining; we have an arrangement - he works more than I do, and I do more housework than he does.)
Oh me too. I’m way south of 40. I use them for dishes and any cleaning that involves a bucket of soapy water, or scrubbing around the toilet.
I still remember watching a friend wash dishes when I was about 13. She didn’t even scrape the plates before they went into the dishpan. Big chunks of potato and meat floating in the dishwater. Blech!
I should, but I never get around to buying a pair for dishwashing. All that water, grease, and detergent dries out my hands and tears up my fingernails.
I don’t clean with toxic chemicals if I can, so they’d probably only get used for dishwashing. However, I always have a box of medical latex gloves for things like dyeing hair and not getting germy when doing yucky stuff.
27, male. I wear gloves when I wash dishes.
My hands tend to get pretty dried out after a dishwashing session since I use a constant stream of scalding water, and the gloves prevent that and let me use hotter water. I don’t care about looks, so I just go by whatever makes the most sense, and it makes more sense to wear them.
I’d rather have dishpan or paint covered hands than hands that smell like rubber for two days, unless they now make a kind that doesn’t smell rubbery.
They smell like rubber, but I couldn’t say that I ever stayed smelling like rubber after I’d taken them off.
31, female, and I love them. Although you can buy thick heavy yellow ones that are even better and then you can make the water steam.
I wear big, cotton lined, industrial vinyl gloves for washing dishes and handling lawn&garden chemicals. Detergents make my hands itch, and I don’t like it when my skin absorbs vile chemicals.
I’m 28. I use dish washing gloves for pulling pumps and jets out of wells. They are pretty good at gripping the pipe. I Usually throw them out after each job. They cost so little when buying them in bulk I don’t see much reason trying to save them after the get coated with iron and such from the piping.
I’d never use them for dish washing.
Always used them for any cleaning. I have sensitive skin - can’t hack hot water and chemicals dry me out terribly. Bonus is that I’ve always been complimented on my nails. Only today someone asked if they were manicured (I’ve never had a manicure).
Some do smell rubbery but the non-lined ones usually don’t. You have to try a few types but can definitely find ones that don’t smell. I started using them in my teens because there was no way I wanted my hands in the water with floaty food bits in it - yeuchhh. Now it’s about comfort, protecting my hands, and the fact that hot wet slippery dishes are less likely to slither out of my fingers if I have textured rubber on them.
Gloves for dishwashing always, for this reason. Keeping my hands purty is a bonus, but, it has to be HOT water to wash dishes!