Astringent
Saturday, December 13th, 2003 12:18 pmFor the last couple of days my hands have been really greasy and it's annoying the hell out of me.
Ever since I was a little kid sticky, dirty or greasy (or any combination of the three) hands have pissed me of and I just have to wash them. But since the middle of the week, no matter how much I scrub the buggers, my hands are just horribly greasy. I might as well just have stuck them in a chip pan or used a block of lard like play-do.
I normally buy cheap soap in large tranches, you know the stuff - 99p for a ton and probably made of boiled horses. Last weekend I realised just as it was too late to go to the shops, that I was down to a tiny sliver and that my hoard was depleted, so I went round the corner shop and bought some zest to tidy me over until I can get a supply of horse-glue soap.
Now this zest soap is OK, it's smells fresh and is lemion scented - lucky it's winter or I'd have insects trying to pollinate me, but it's pansy stuff compared to my usual non-brand. It occurs to me that this is the problem. Maybe I haven't got greasy hands at all; they are probably supposed to be like this but I'm so used to washing with industrial strength astringents that my skin is normally like tracing paper.
I must go and get some of my usual stuff; this is annoying me intensely. I am fed up with leaving finger prints everywhere that you can see without forensic powder.
Ever since I was a little kid sticky, dirty or greasy (or any combination of the three) hands have pissed me of and I just have to wash them. But since the middle of the week, no matter how much I scrub the buggers, my hands are just horribly greasy. I might as well just have stuck them in a chip pan or used a block of lard like play-do.
I normally buy cheap soap in large tranches, you know the stuff - 99p for a ton and probably made of boiled horses. Last weekend I realised just as it was too late to go to the shops, that I was down to a tiny sliver and that my hoard was depleted, so I went round the corner shop and bought some zest to tidy me over until I can get a supply of horse-glue soap.
Now this zest soap is OK, it's smells fresh and is lemion scented - lucky it's winter or I'd have insects trying to pollinate me, but it's pansy stuff compared to my usual non-brand. It occurs to me that this is the problem. Maybe I haven't got greasy hands at all; they are probably supposed to be like this but I'm so used to washing with industrial strength astringents that my skin is normally like tracing paper.
I must go and get some of my usual stuff; this is annoying me intensely. I am fed up with leaving finger prints everywhere that you can see without forensic powder.