"You're soaking in it."

[athelind]

Your Obedient Serpent has a coconut allergy. They don't normally do immunization shots for food allergies, but because coconut oil was so ubiquitous in the 1970s, they included that in my weekly cocktail of joy.0It seems to have taken, since I don't seem to react to inadvertent doses of coconut in my cuisine; over the holidays, I had a big bowl of

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[athelind]

Ow! That's HARSH.

Mine is so subtle that it takes repeated exposure -- like, washing my hands several times a day, or scrubbing it into my scalp five times a week -- to get a reaction.

But yeah, "natural ingredients". PFAUGH! Cyanide's natural, too.

[thpandragon]

Thank you! Now I have an easy thing to remember next time I'm at the bookstore.

[stalbon]

Liquid soap, especially Softsoap, as you pointed out to me some years ago, is terrible for your hands, yes. I try my best to just use the bar soap around, but I know that's got coconut extract in it, for certain. Still, like yourself, I end up with chapped knuckles and webbing throughout the winter, and sometimes at other times of the year, if I'm washing too much.

[leonard_arlotte]

Most restaurants I know of have (and are required to have) a dishwashing machine for dishes and pots and pans. The shlubs that get stuck on dishwashing duty get exposed to nasty food residue, and high pressure hot water, but usually don't have direct contact with the soap.

Way back in the day when I worked in a restaurant as a prepcook, I discovered that the juice from slicing tomatoes caused significant itching on my hands. Rubber gloves were my first solution to that. The second solution was to find a job at another restaurant where I didn't have to slice tomatoes. (and later, I got out of the restaurant industry altogether)