Swarfega green - still good?
David
After that I always used Swarfega Orange (with grains in it) but
sometimes it's just a bit too rough and I want to get th "ordinary"
Swarfega.
At the web site I see Lemon; there's Natural and also Original.
http://www.deb.co.uk/ukswarfega/
Has the old green Swarfega been superceded by a better standard product
these days?
cerberus
"David" <no...@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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I know the man from 'elf & safety stuck his oar in a few years ago & the
green Swarfega can't be used in industry any more. Safe enough for 'Joe
public' though it seems, unlike creosote :-(
Don.
shazzbat
"David" <no...@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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Wouldn't that be the "Original" mentioned?
Steve
meow...@care2.com
Swarfega is an expensive way to buy paraffin. Perhaps the lemon
also contains lemon oil, dont know - citrus oils give added cleaning
power.
NT
Pete C
I use plain skin cream to clean oily dirt off hands.
Rub some on to lift most of it, wipe off with old rag.
Rub more on and use nail brush for nails and engrained dirt, wipe off
with clean rag.
Drys hands out less and no tide mark in sink either.
cheers,
Pete.
Peter Twydell
C <pete...@gmail.com> writes
Start off by applying barrier cream before the job.
I have a tub of Wickes barrier cream that states on the label that it
should be stored for a maximum of one year. Why?
--
Peter
Ying tong iddle-i po!
Si
<pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>Start off by applying barrier cream before the job.
>
>I have a tub of Wickes barrier cream that states on the label that it
>should be stored for a maximum of one year. Why?
bacterial growth probably
--
Si
mogga
If you look in your bathroom you'll find lots of little messages on
products saying they have a shelf life of 12M.
This PAO (period after opening) is indicated within an open jar
illustration that has a number inside followed by the letter M. For
example, 12M corresponds to 12 months, that is, the product should be
used within a year after opening.
If you're putting your fingers in it you'll be putting your skin cells
and bacteria in there and they might grow. OR the product may
deteriate upon opening and eventually breakdown.
If it smells ok and doesn't burn your arm off it's probably ok though.
--
http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk
Frank Erskine
>
>I recently went through my bathroom cabinet and threw away everything that was
>more than 10 years past it's "Use by" date.
I have a (still sealed) jar of Saffron with a BBE date of Sep 94.
--
Frank Erskine
Stuart Noble
> On 2007-10-12, mogga <d...@NOSPAMPLEASEmogga.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:54:12 +0100, Peter Twydell
>> <pe...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>> I have a tub of Wickes barrier cream that states on the label that it
>>> should be stored for a maximum of one year. Why?
>> If you look in your bathroom you'll find lots of little messages on
>> products saying they have a shelf life of 12M.
>
> more than 10 years past it's "Use by" date.
>
Gotta be a smart arse remark there somewhere
Steve Firth
> I recently went through my bathroom cabinet and threw away everything that was
> more than 10 years past it's "Use by" date.
I wish I coudl persuade my wife to do that with the fod cupboard.
There's a couple of tins of condensed milk in there that are 20 years
past their "use by" date. If I throw them in the bin she retrieves them.
I guess they'll become heirlooms.
Steve Firth
> On 2007-10-12, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> > Huge <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> I recently went through my bathroom cabinet and threw away everything
> >> that was more than 10 years past it's "Use by" date.
> >
> > I wish I coudl persuade my wife to do that with the fod cupboard.
> > There's a couple of tins of condensed milk in there that are 20 years
> > past their "use by" date.
>
> They're probably OK. My wife's pickier about this than I am and gets very
> excited about food that's out of date.
>
> > If I throw them in the bin she retrieves them.
>
> Do it when she's out.
Sadly we're on an "empty the bins once a fortnight" scheme. I'd have to
be cunning, and I'd probably still get earbashed about "waste".
Steve Firth
> The very next posting (which I haven't read yet) after yours is from
> Firthy, so doubtless that's where it'll be. :o)
:-P
Conor
job.
--
Conor
I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
Willy Eckerslyke
What was that you were saying about the great unwashed?
Frank Erskine
wrote:
Open them and pour the contents away :-)
--
Frank Erskine
Conor
says...
Peter Twydell
<d...@NOSPAMPLEASEmogga.com> writes
It must be at least four years old by now. Smells the same as when it
was new and it's still effective. No burns, rashes, embarrassing pongs,
etc.
One thing I did learn was that if your bathroom door has a knob rather
than a handle, open the door before applying slippery cream to the
hands. Wasn't a problem in the previous house as the BC was kept in the
kitchen, which had a lever handle on the door.
Bramble-Stick
"Conor" <conor_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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For many years I used cheap washingup liquid (the thin stuff, usually
green), adding white spirit a teaspoon at a time until it gelled to a thick
transparent consistency - worked a treat, and had a particular smell which I
always associated with a certain popular hand-cleaner. I just use disposable
gloves now though...
Bramblestick
Willy Eckerslyke
> I just use disposable
> gloves now though...
The previous owner of my Land Rover had left a few latex disposable
gloves lying around in it after using them when messing about with
dieselly bits. The resulting sticky, half melted mess is one of the most
disgusting things imaginable.
Bramble-Stick
"Willy Eckerslyke" <oss108...@bangor.ac.uk> wrote in message
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I find PVC rather more long-lasting in this context. Care to move this
discussion to alt.sex.fetish.landrover? :-)
Bramblestick
Ian
> I recently went through my bathroom cabinet and threw away everything that was
> more than 10 years past it's "Use by" date.
Wimp.
Ian
Ian
> Has the old green Swarfega been superceded by a better standard product
> these days?
I find Comma "Manista" excellent. It has the polygrains in it, so it
cleans well, but it seems to avoid the astringent harshness of many of
the other makes.
What I want to know, though, is what happened to waterless Swarfega?
Ian
Chris Bartram
>
> Do it when she's out.
>
>
>
>
Heh. Out of the list of things you might do while the wife is out,
"throwing out condensed milk" is not what would have topped most lists.
Chris Bartram
>
An alternative to "crashing the yoghurt truck" maybe.
Andy Hall
> On 2007-10-17, Chris Bartram <ne...@delete-me.piglet-net.net> wrote:
> Interesting euphemism, though.
But how would you use it?
Ah. Yes. Of course.
Oh, I say.....
Si
<Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> writes
>
A real man would've put them in his shed!
--
Si
Andy Dingley
>Has the old green Swarfega been superceded by a better standard product
>these days?
Reposted obit, from a couple of years ago
From London tabloid, The Times, via alt.obituaries
Audley Bowdler Williamson, the inventor of Swarfega, was
born on February 28, 1916. He died on November 21, 2004,
aged 88.
Inventor of Swarfega, the emerald gel famed for its
phenomenal efficacy against engine oil, grease and grime of
all kinds.
OIL-STAINED mechanics, greasy bikers and grubby petrol heads
the world over owe their social lives and a debt of
happiness to "AB" Williamson. He was the inventor of
Swarfega, the cool, strangely seductive emerald-green gel
with a wonderful ability to cleanse even the blackest,
grimiest hands, wrists and forearms. For half a century it
has been the end-of-the-day ritual for numberless mechanics:
a scoop of the fingers into a battered grimy pot of the
translucent gel, rub and rinse, and clean, socially
acceptable skin reappears as if by magic.
Audley Bowdler Williamson was born in Heanor, Derbyshire, in
1916. His father and his father's two brothers, who had
operated a horse-drawn haulage business for the Nottingham
silk trade, returned from the First World War convinced that
motorised transport was the future.
They started with lorries and soon moved into buses, running
the business from the yard beside their home, and so
Williamson was familiar with the oily business of motor
mechanics from an early age. He attended Heanor Grammar
School and in 1934, at the age of 18, he joined a local
firm, Dalton's -known to all as Silkolene for its
lubricants -as a trainee chemist.
In 1941 he set up a company, Deb, in Belper, just north of
Derby -he took the name from "debutante" to signify that
both the company and its products, all developed by him,
were new to the market. Williamson had high hopes for his
first product, a mild detergent called Deb Silkware
Protection. The war had diverted silk to parachute
production, but Williamson was confident that when the
hostilities were over, silk stockings would be back in a big
way. Alas, the Americans arrived with nylons and destroyed
the silk stocking market -and the need for Deb Silkware
Protection.
Falling back on his early memories of oily-handed motor
fitters washing their hands with petrol, paraffin and
sand -and suffering from cracked skin and dermatitis -he
decided to develop a skin cleaner which would remove engine
oils and grease, but leave the body's natural oils intact.
And so, in 1947, Swarfega was born; it was the first hand
cleaner of its type in the world.
The name derives from "swarf" -the fine, oily tangle of
metal shavings produced when machining components, and hence
unwanted oil and grease in general -and "ega", as in "eager
to clean".
Swarfega burst upon a postwar era which was just succumbing
to mass motoring and masses of motor mechanics -and soon
became a household word.
Deb gradually increased its product range to include other
skincare and workplace cleaning products, from car shampoos
to engine degreasants. And as Britain's heavy engineering
industries declined, the company diversified its products to
target such markets as hospitals and other large
institutions. It now also produces Suprega, an "orange
Swarfega" which uses citrus oils instead of the
petroleum-derived solvents in the famous original. At
present the company's annual worldwide turnover is more than
£60 million.
This steady success allowed Williamson, after his retirement
in 1986, to follow his lifelong socialist principles and
contribute his money and management skills to a number of
philanthropic initiatives. These include the Belper Civic
Association and the Ryklow Charitable Trust, which support
environmental and wildlife conservation activities.
Williamson's wife Kathleen, whom he married in 1943, died
two years ago. He is survived by their three sons.
Andy Dingley
wrote:
>What I want to know, though, is what happened to waterless Swarfega?
Try "Lava" handwipes in the bright red packets.