Been working on the bus all day

Forget all your fancy shower potions - this is what I shower with. It has added granules to get to all the right places!

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Great stuff. Used to use it all the time. Flushed loads of it down the sink to help with the micro plastic problem we apparently have now. For that very reason, I now just mix a load of hand soap and sugar together. It does exactly the same as that stuff.

 

Don't scrub your nuts with it

 

Old school, I remember my dad sat cleaning his hands with washing up liquid and sugar after working on the car.

 

The "grit" in Swarfega is cornmeal BTW, As for the rest of it...

AQUA (WATER), C9-16 ALKANES/CYCLOALKANES, SODIUM TALLATE, TRIDECETH-7, TRIDECETH-5, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, SODIUM BENZOATE, DMDM HYDANTOIN, PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), TETRASODIUM EDTA, OCTADECYL DI-T-BUTYL-4-HYDROXYHYDROCINNAMATE, METHYLCHLOROISOTHIAZOLINONE, MAGNESIUM NITRATE, MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE, METHYLISOTHIAZOLINONE, HEXYL ...

Either you're a Chemist or you just have to hope someone somewhere has honestly appraised that lot as harmless, or soap and sugar. Orange Swarfega is hard to beat though. We had a 15L tub of it in the workshop, it lasted years and years. I've got a 4L one on the boat, that's lasted approx 10 years so far and plenty left, I expect it'll see out my use for it.

I've never taken it in the shower though! What the heck had you been doing to need to do that?

 

When I arrived back in the house I got 'don't you dare touch anything and go straight in the shower' from the Mrs. I remember my mum saying the same thing when I was eight years old and had found a muddy pond full of tadpoles and frogs.

 

lol, probably part of why I'm divorced was behaving like I had some sort of equal rights around the place.

 

I used to use the industrial strength version of that.
Tufanega, it was called. Orange stuff. At work, it used to come in 10 litre buckets. On pallets. A pallet would last maybe 4 weeks or so. That’s how many people washed their hands. Shift work, there, so we must have filled a few sewers with whatever the stuff was.
That was for years and years. It must have been plastic, back then, it never desolved or vanished.

 

It was.

 

Yes, it didn’t have the agitation in.

 

The orange stuff is the stuff with croutons in.

 

Many Many years ago, maybe 50 or so, we had a new recruit join us who used to work at Deb Chemicals in Belper, the makers of Swarfega amongst other stuff. He told tales of getting the recipe wrong in the factory and having to dump vast amounts of the stuff down the drains. They must have had the cleanest drains and rats in Derbyshire.

 

Yes and possibly ending in the river Derwent . Knew a youth that swam in the Derwent near the weir next the Derwent gardens city centre . Next day his balls enlarged 3 times the size .
word got around and i have never seen any one swim in it since . It is not quite so polluted now compared to the seventies but still unwise to go for a dip .

 

Just wear the latex surgical style gloves and no need for any hard scrubbing .

 

My Mum is exactly the same , we had to strip off at the backdoor if we were particularly muddy and put all of our cloths in a binbag as they were to dirty to go into the wash basket .I'm in my early 50s but if I turned up there now I think the same rule would still apply .

 

Miss the smell of the green jelly Swarfegs…it was kind of translucent as opposed to the misty cream crap that followed that was rubbish.

 

My wife makes me do that now!