Recently there have been posts on Beemaster about cleaning the gloves we wear. I read somewhere about washing your hands with soap and water while wearing the gloves. In the first picture, you can see my gloves right after I washed my hands with soap and water. Then I put olive oil on my gloves - you can see it glistening in the fold in the middle of the hand in the second picture. I work the oil into the gloves as I would hand lotion on my hands. Then the glove remains soft and nice for wearing the next time I visit the hives.
My biggest problem with gloves is not cleaning them but rather the size that they are. My hands are small and gloves are made for men - so look at my hand on top of the glove and you can see that I have a lot of unused space at the tips of my fingers - makes for clumsy manipulation!
Recently there have been posts on Beemaster about cleaning the gloves we wear. I read somewhere about washing your hands with soap and water while wearing the gloves. In the first picture, you can see my gloves right after I washed my hands with soap and water. Then I put olive oil on my gloves - you can see it glistening in the fold in the middle of the hand in the second picture. I work the oil into the gloves as I would hand lotion on my hands. Then the glove remains soft and nice for wearing the next time I visit the hives.
My biggest problem with gloves is not cleaning them but rather the size that they are. My hands are small and gloves are made for men - so look at my hand on top of the glove and you can see that I have a lot of unused space at the tips of my fingers - makes for clumsy manipulation!
So you place the olive oil on right after you wash, even though the gloves are still wet??
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I act as if the gloves were my own hands, so I wash, dry with a towel and then put the olive oil straight on the glove while it is still however wet it is after drying with a hand towel....
ReplyDeleteJust be careful with olive oil, it's poisonous to bees.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember where I read about cleaning the gloves this way but I don't think the type of oil mattered, so I'll switch to vegetable oil. Although if using oil would keep them from stinging my gloves, I'd be thrilled - I hate to see the bee's stinger in my glove, knowing that she died for nothing since I never felt a thing.
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