Stainless Steel Soap

[Bella Fortuna]

:derail: If you want to get fish smell off your hands, Irish Spring does a good job. :/derail:

Yes, it conveniently removes that pesky epidermis!

Irish Spring?

That stuff is gross!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

:derail: If you want to get fish smell off your hands, Irish Spring does a good job. :/derail:

Yes, it conveniently removes that pesky epidermis!

Irish Spring?

That stuff is gross!

Wuss.

[maiforpeace]

:derail: If you want to get fish smell off your hands, Irish Spring does a good job. :/derail:

Yes, it conveniently removes that pesky epidermis!

Irish Spring?

That stuff is gross!

Indeed - that smell reminds me of a crusty old uncle or something. I think I like the fish smell better.

Don't want certain food smells on your hands? Just wear gloves.

Otherwise, the sure fire way to remove any strong smells like fish or garlic is to make a paste of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, and wash with that for a couple of minutes.

[Ayaan]

:derail: If you want to get fish smell off your hands, Irish Spring does a good job. :/derail:

Yes, it conveniently removes that pesky epidermis!

Irish Spring?

That stuff is gross!

I rather like the scent of Irish Spring.

[Bella Fortuna]

"Manly, yes, but I like it too"

[Randydeluxe]

I spent hours experimenting with one of those steel eggs. Completely indifferent from other objects that you might rub your skin on under running water.

Of course, the people I had smell my hands knew without a doubt when it was being compared to soap.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Note to self: Do not handle stainless steel saucepans for a few days after "getting lucky"!

[Random Mutant]

My sink is stainless steel, I'll just rub my hands all over it in the future.

That works

If stainless steel is so great, I just want to know why men's urinals still smell like rotten piss.

100% woo, IMO.

[Feck]

My sink is stainless steel, I'll just rub my hands all over it in the future.

That works

If stainless steel is so great, I just want to know why men's urinals still smell like rotten piss.

100% woo, IMO.

Ok go chop some garlic and test it then .

[Trolldor]

I wasn't aware that 'garlic hands' were a problem. They never were in the past, especially after I used hand soap to wash them.

[Pappa]

Sounds like woo to me

+1

Mind you, the scene where they wrap the soap in towels in Full Metal Jacket would be interesting....

[PsychoSerenity]

it works esp on Garlic smelling hands

Any chemical explanation or evidence for that? Does it just work on a particular chemical in garlic and possibly onion, or would it also remove fish and nicotine odours as it claims?

I can imagine it might have a chemical explanation; it might work as a catalyst, or perhaps react with particular chemicals directly, - but I don't know enough chemistry to have a clue what they mean by oxido-reduction.

Even if there is a chemical explanation, I'd still question the efficiency of such a product, since it can't be easy to get a solid object in contact with the entire surface area of your hands.

[Clinton Huxley]

Maybe if you are daft enough to buy one of these things your brain is able to trick itself into thinking it has worked....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Manly, yes, but I like it too"

So maybe you should get in touch with your manly side?

[PsychoSerenity]

Maybe if you are daft enough to buy one of these things your brain is able to trick itself into thinking it has worked....

Well yeah, to me the obvious answer, assuming there is no chemical reaction, is a fairly standard psychological bias placebo/expectancy effect type of thing. Looking at reviews for this and other steel soaps, plenty of people say it works, but that doesn't mean much - especially when there are a few reviews that say they've tested it and it doesn't work.

Do we have any chemists here, that can say one way or the other?