Keep Your Hands Clean and Healthy with Cleaning Gloves
The cleaning process can be particularly hard on your hands. Between the hot water, the abrasive materials, and the harsh chemicals, it can really affect your skin and nails. This is where cleaning gloves can help.
The many uses of household cleaning gloves
Cleaning gloves are most often used when washing dishes. Here, they help keep your hands clean and dry, and may even improve your grip on slippery surfaces. But this is not all they are good for – you can also wear cleaning gloves when you are doing:
- General cleaning: Cleaning gloves are good for everything from dusting and mopping to scrubbing tiles and cleaning bathrooms.
- Gardening: Wearing gloves while you garden will stop your hands from getting dirty and protect them from pricks and stings.
- Painting: Even with the best brushes and sponges you will usually get some paint on your hands – but not when you wear gloves!
- Food preparation: Wearing gloves can stop your hands from smelling (e.g. from onions) or getting stained (e.g. from beetroot).
- Bathing pets: Gloves will keep your hands clean and dry and there are even some that can help prevent shedding.
- Applying hair colouring and self-tanning products: Gloves can stop your hands getting stained while you are applying colour to your hair or body.
Different types of cleaning gloves
Just as there are many uses for household cleaning gloves, there are also many different types. Each type has its own strengths and may be better suited to certain activities.
For example, some gloves have a scrubber built into the palm of the hand. This makes them great for washing dishes and anything else that requires gentle scrubbing. Similarly, some have extra-long cuffs, to stop water getting in while you wash up.
Also, when choosing which gloves to buy, it is important to consider the material they are made from. Household cleaning gloves can be made from everything from rubber and silicone to latex and nitrile, and even microfibre. The best material for you will depend on what you are planning to use the gloves for.