Dirty finger nails!!!!

[BeBe48]

Morning All

How do you keep your fingernails clean????

Last night I went out for dinner with friends and after a day at the lottie my fingernails were grubby to say the least! With glad rags on they were a bit of a let down at the dinner table.

I know the answer is to wear gloves but I dont like to unless there is the possibility of bugs.

Any tips?

BB

[VirginVegGrower]

Olive oil and sugar scrub whilst in a nice hot oily bath!

[Chitfaced]

Give your hair a good wash (not saying that you necessarily need to of course!!). I find that's the best thing for cleaning my nails. Gloves don't always protect them as after a while mud gets inside them too.

[bethduckie]

A good old fashioned nail brush, and a moisturising soap (because it seems to help the muck 'slide' out better...)

[rustylady]

My hands are a disgrace at the moment. Hate wearing gloves unless I'm cutting brambles, and although I scrub my hands and nails and use handcream (when I remember) my nails are stained, not just dirty.

[mothhawk]

Scrape your nails across a bar of soap before you start gardening. The soap under your nails will stop the soil getting in so deep and makes it much easier to wash out.

[pipscariad]

Dark nail varnish hides a multitude of sins! Of course, I don't know whether you are male or female, but kind of assuming you're the latter as I've tended to find men don't worry about this kind of thing too much!

[Creemteez]

I use the old sugar and olive oil scrub too. Sometimes after a full day at the plot, my hands feel as if I'm wearing leather gauntlets and look as if they belong on something Howard Carter and Lord Caernarvon dug up! A combination of bath, scrub, nail brush and slatherings of hand cream afterwards, brings them back to the land of the living!

[Zenithtb]

Penknife...

[VirginVegGrower]

I use the old sugar and olive oil scrub too. Sometimes after a full day at the plot, my hands feel as if I'm wearing leather gauntlets and look as if they belong on something Howard Carter and Lord Caernarvon dug up! A combination of bath, scrub, nail brush and slatherings of hand cream afterwards, brings them back to the land of the living!

I quite agree - those things work for me. I find the olive oil and sugar removes deep staining.

[Suky]

I agree, sugar scrub, nail brush and then an old fashioned nail file. I occasionally have to apologise to customers for the state of my hands

[Florence Fennel]

Clean the bathroom with plenty of bleach then slather on hand cream. Result.

[Angry Janice]

I'll give this sugar and olive oil thing a go.

[Snadger]

Knead some bread.........that'll clean em!

Its not only my nails but my weeding fingers (especially after dandelion weeding).

It doesn't help that I have silty soil and my plot once belonged to a chimney sweep!

[VirginVegGrower]

Knead some bread.........that'll clean em!

Its not only my nails but my weeding fingers (especially after dandelion weeding).

It doesn't help that I have silty soil and my plot once belonged to a chimney sweep!

Eewghee! Not coming to yours for a sandwich ;-)
You are correct though it would clean them. Pizza dough maybe and pretend the black bits are cracked pepper or herbs :-0

Prefer my sugar scrub idea!