Hand & Skin Care for Engineering & Workshops in Namibia

Nitrile gloves at clock-in for the wet and solvent work — cutting oils then never reach the skin at all. Mid-shift rinses with Chemkleen at the basin, not solvent from the bench. End of shift: Penetone worked into dry hands, rinsed once, done. Winter months swap Penetone for the gentler Elite while skin is cracked. It costs seconds per step, and it is the routine that keeps thirty-year tradesmen’s hands out of the dermatology file.

Solvents strip the skin’s own barrier lipids along with the grease — every solvent wash is a small chemical burn that never quite heals before the next one. The result, months later, is occupational dermatitis: cracked, weeping, infection-prone hands and a compensation claim. The fix is availability: Penetone mounted where the habit happens (workshop exit, not locked store) and Magnus Waterless on site boxes. Where the proper cleaner is closer than the thinners tin, the habit dies.

A 20 L Penetone dispenser, a Chemkleen refill at the basin for the final wash, and — because engineering shops host client visits and inspectors — Antisep 100 at the office door. Nitrile gloves from the consumables range cover the solvent tasks where cleaning-after is the wrong answer entirely. The whole point is one order: the segmentation sheet lists every one of these lines for engineering companies.

Magnus Waterless and Ardrojel exist precisely for the crew bolting a conveyor at a farm with no tap for a kilometre: the cleaner carries its own solvents and surfactants, lifts the grease, and wipes off onto rag or paper. Hands come back workable, lunch stays clean, and the vehicle steering wheel stops being an oil archive. Wipe-off must be thorough — residue left on transfers to everything touched for the next hour.