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Showerthought: my grandma's rubber gloves hanging by the sink got me thinking about how dish soap used to be a whole ritual
My grandma kept a little bottle of blue Dawn and a pair of yellow Playtex gloves under the sink in her house in Fresno, and she never washed a single dish without them. I was complaining last week about my hands cracking from doing dishes bare handed, and my mom reminded me that grandma used to say the soap back then was way harsher on skin, so the gloves were non negotiable. Now we have all these gentle formulas and pump bottles in fancy scents, and I still end up with dry knuckles every winter. Kinda funny how we upgraded the soap but lost the habit that actually protected our hands. Does anyone here still keep a dedicated pair of dish gloves, or did everyone ditch them like I did?
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joseph_martinez359d ago
But the soap back then being harsher is exactly why the gloves were non negotiable... that doesn't mean the gloves were the thing saving her hands. She had to wear them because the soap would've wrecked her skin otherwise. Now the soap is gentle enough that you don't NEED gloves, so ditching them isn't losing a habit, it's just not needing the safety gear anymore. Your dry knuckles in winter are probably from cold air and hot water, not the soap, and a pair of gloves wouldn't fix that anyway since your hands are still wet and cold inside them half the time. People romanticize the old way like grandma had some secret wisdom, but she was just working around bad products with extra steps.
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