How To Get Paint Off Of Skin

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If yous do whatever amount of painting, information technology'southward almost guaranteed that yous will cease up with paint or primer on your easily. I finally discovered the best and safest style to become primer off peel!

The best part is that you don't have to use harsh chemicals, and I bet you already have what you lot need right in your kitchen!

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I am a messy painter. I'm a messy cook too for that thing. I am pretty much always wearing an apron and then I don't ruin all of my dress. Because there are non very many days in my beingness that I am not cooking or painting, or working on another craft project.

I am always getting paint on my hands. Latex based pigment is not difficult to get off, information technology washes right off with some soap and water. But primer? That is an entirely unlike story my friends. It is a challenge to remove. When I painted my kitchen last month, I got primer all over my hands.

Could. Not. Get. It. Off. I asked my twitter buddies if they had any clever ideas for removing primer from skin. I got replies from everything to nail polish remover and GooGone, to using a belt sander. (Um, thanks Char.)

I tried the smash polish remover and the GooGone. Not the belt sander. They worked, simply I notwithstanding had to do a fair amount of skin scraping. And deal with the nasty chemical smell. Then last week I had to get back and pigment my window frame because I missed information technology the kickoff time around. When I was finished, my hands looked something like this:

HOW TO GET PRIMER OFF SKIN WITHOUT CHEMICALS

I'm not a huge fan of using chemicals on my skin, so I wanted to employ something else. I remembered that the oil in peanut butter can remove gum. I wondered if oil would help remove primer. And so I poured about a teaspoon of vegetable oil in my easily and rubbed it effectually. Then I added a squirt of soap and some water and lathered up. And guess what?

The oil and soap mixture removed the primer better than whatever of the chemicals I tried!!!

I had to do a fair amount of rubbing, simply I did not have to scrape the primer off. And every drib came off:
Is that awesome or what?!!

Disclaimer: The makers of vegetable oil did not compensate me in any manner for recommending their product as a paint remover. In fact, they are still nether the assumption that I am buying their production to actually make food.