Manly Moisturizer Fits In Tool Chest For 'Working Man'

WDIVdetroit ^ | January 2, 2006 | The Associated Press

[Westlander]

SISTERS, Ore. -- Tara O'Keeffe said even the manliest of men needs a good moisturizer.

That's why the Oregon woman has created a moisturizer for the "working man" who frequents home-improvement stores.

O'Keeffe's Working Hands is oil-free, hypoallergenic, unscented and sold in cans that look like car wax containers. She now sells 500,000 cans of the lotion annually in the United States.

It's packaged in a fluorescent lime-green canister with tangerine print, a rubber grip and a holographic lid. The can is shaped like a hockey puck.

The product has no fragrance and fits right into a tool chest. O'keefe said it's green color "is manly" adding "Is it car wax? Is it boot grease?"

She said the product wouldn't work so well on a car but that many customers use it on cow udders and for sled dogs' cracked paws.

[Westlander]

Wonderful

[vbmoneyspender]

Seriously, what's a moisturizer?

[dead]

I use bacon fat.

[LegendHasIt]

I like molybdenum grease myself.

[Spruce]

If you need anything but motor oil for a 'moisturizer' you should be crushed by a giant beer can.

[Army Air Corps]

Gun oil works really well.

[opinionator]

oil-free, hypoallergenic, unscented

I use a moisturizer just like this. It comes out of a faucet in my bathroom.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Seriously, what's a moisturizer?

Petroleum Jelly?

Spar Varnish makes for a wondeful hair gel.

[MarkL]

If you need anything but motor oil for a 'moisturizer' you should be crushed by a giant beer can.

Way back when I worked in a machine shop, and I had my hands in a parts washer in solvent for most of the day. I could wash my hands over and over again with lava, and still not be able to get them completely clean. The worst part was that I started to get cracks in the skin, and frankly, it started to hurt when I'd have my hands in the solvent (I couldn't really wear gloves, due to the small size of the parts I was dealing with, and I couldn't "feel" well enough when I wore them.

It wasn't called a moisturizer, but I used a cream... I can't remember the name, but part of it was "crack cream."

It really did help.

Mark

[Nasty McPhilthy]

I like my hands dry and scaley.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Best moisturizer for a man is 90 weight gear oil. Extracted directly from the differential of a 1/4 ton or larger pickup truck.

While he's under there turning wrenches and the like, he doesn't have time to worry whether the flaming faeries are going to find his skin supple or not.

Nothing disgusts me more than to see "Myn" mincing about acting like show ponies. Was a time that pride kept a man on his feet and off his knees. Pride in his hands and his heart, not his skin and designer fragrances.

It's sad to think there are fewer and fewer of us and more and more of them every year. No damn wonder there are so many lesbians. Girls are having to look to themselves to find something more masculine than the "queer eye" set...

[MarkL]

Oops!

I could wash my hands over and over again with lava,

I should have written "I could wash my hands over and over again with lava, goop, and any other cleaner, but I still wasn't able to get my hands completely clean, and the more I worked and washed them, the dryer they got."

Mark

[Westlander]

"crack cream"

Let's not go there.

[Born to Conserve]

My hands feel the best after I've shaped a few hamburger patties. Lacking that, I find boot water proofing to give me the best results. I think it is a mixture of bee's wax, lanolin (sheep hair grease) and volatile petroleum distillates.

[citizencon]

>Seriously, what's a moisturizer?<

For a start, it's not a lubricant but some people use it as such...

[Reform4Bush]

Why make moisturizer for the tool chest, can't we just carry it in our man purses?

[willyboyishere]

I'm sure it was ZIM'S crack creme, which came in a small plastic bottle with a pull-up lid. Very oily though, but a kind of pleasant scent.