Permatex 01013 DL Blue Label Cream Hand Cleaner, 14 oz.

I'm a lady that's been a mechanic for 50 years. I believe this is the best hand cleaner on the market. When teaching Industrial Arts, the young ladies in the class would be willing to leave with paint on their hands before using this hand cleaner because it does have a rather disturbing odor. DL works great on grease, paint, and other nasty stuff such as tree pitch and splattered on road tar. A little bit of DL on a soft rag will remove pine pitch from your car with ease. Rub it into grease or paint strains on your clothes before putting them in the clothes washer and the majority of stains will be completely removed. Works best if it sits overnight before washing. Personally, I dislike pumice in my hand cleaner. I'm trying to wash the grease off my hands and not abrade it off. Used in quantity smooth Fast Orange works nearly as and it leaves your hands with a good clean smell. When visiting my mechanic friends, their wives always wanted to know how I got my hands clean and their husbands claimed they couldn't get their hands clean from ground in grease. There are two secrets. The first is to put a small amount of hand cleaner on your clean hands before starting work. Rub it all over your hands and scrape your fingernails in your palms to work the and cleaner under the nails then wipe off the excess. After work, use the hand cleaner on dry dirty hands and rub hand cleaner in very well and wipe off with a clean rag or paper towel. Then wash with soap and water and you will have fairly clean hands and most of the oder will disappear. You're not going to like the second secret. Wash the supper dishes with a grease cutting dish washing soap such as Dawn. Perfectly clean hands after doing that.

This cleans your hands very well. If you use a brush it’s even better. Way better than other products like zep and gojo (worst). I have a gojo dispenser and this works in it.

Great cleaner for oil paintbrushes. I don't even need toxic paint thinner (mineral spirits, turps) for clean-up anymore. (I've also used Old Masters brush cleaner and love it too.) First I wipe excess paint off of brush heads with a rag, then I dip each brush head into this DL Hand Cleaner and rub the thickly coated brush hairs vigorously into the palm of my other hand to work the paint out, then rinse and repeat until there's no more paint in the brush hairs. (If using a toxic pigment such as cadmium, I don't rinse into the sink drain.) Then I set the brushes down horizontally to air dry, and I thoroughly clean my hands. For my palette, I use a palette knife to scrape all excess oil paint into a pile, mix it together (usually results in a muddy gray), then place it into a container to save for later use since it's still good paint. I rub a dollop of the DL Hand Cleaner into the palette surface, scrub it vigorously with an old dish scrubber sponge plus water, then rinse and repeat until there's no more paint on the palette. I take off 1 star because, as others have said, the container was completely damaged in shipping. The contents were spilled out into the shipping plastic, and USPS had to cover the whole thing with plastic and an apology note. I recovered about 8 fl oz of this gelatinous-cream DL Hand Cleaner. Otherwise, great product!

I've always liked this "Blue Label" Permatex, the orange one has pumice which I don't want scratching things. After many years my little blue tub ran dry so I found it here on Amazon 2kg for $12 or about 4 times more product for about the same price as my little Walmart tub. AWESOME! The problem is that like so many of the low star ratings my tub basically exploded in transport and even with the second plastic bag it leaked everywhere. You can argue that Permatex needs to pack this better but it is 2kg of goo AND I'm pretty sure the problem was my Amazon delivery person who literally dropped it hard on my front steps. Amazon quickly sent me a replacement which I very much appreciate, and the reason I wanted to write this review is that the Permatex "Blue Label" waterless hand cleaners really is one of the best AND one of the best bangs for the buck. If you are someone looking for a great waterless hand cleaner this is an excellent choice. If you are worried about the low review score, just understand it's not because the product is bad. It's just a lot of product that gets handled too roughly.

The shipping box was oversized and was obviously mishandled during shipment, as it was deformed. Upon opening it, the hand cleaner, not only was busted open, but entirely covered the inside of the box. I scooped it up with a large spoon and put it back in the container. I lost about half of the product as it was soaked into the cardboard, which I threw out. The actual hand cleaner is fine, it works great in cleaning my hands. This was just a packaging and shipping issue. I will order it again. Things happen.

First off, I just received this and it’s practically half empty. Yes, there’s some on the top but not a significant amount. I’m going to send it back in hopes of getting a properly filled one. Despite this I’m still going to give it 5 star unless the 2nd container comes back with a problem. I found this stuff a few years ago at a local parts store and what I liked was that it’s not water activated. At that time I lived in an apartment so I didn’t have a convenient water source by the lot and I didn’t want to deal with greasy hands on door knobs or possibly tracking grease in the apartment. So I got this and use it with a few paper towels and it really good.

Great cleaner delivey was harsh on canaster. The best product

I first got this Hand Cleaner (great name) many years ago. Saw a stack of the 8 oz. containers sitting on the counter of the local Autozone for a dollar each. Grabbed one since Dawn dish soap sucks at cutting engine grease. I'm not generally prone to impulse buys so, when the mood hits me, I sit up and pay attention. My thinking was simple. If it works, I'll have made the greatest discovery in the universe for a dollar. If not then I'm only out a dollar. Turns out this stuff works extremely well. AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Here's what works best for me: .01 Turn the faucet on so its warm don't wet your hands. .02 Grab a glob of the glop and move it around on the greasy areas for a bit. .03 Rinse most of it off and grab some more going over the same areas. .04 Rinse most of that off and then wash your hands with some dish soap. .05 Dry your hands off. Note: If you needed to be told step .05, you clearly have no business doing anything to your engine. Find a mechanic.