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Posted: 4/25/2012 7:53:49 AM EDT
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I'm 21 and I use Lava soap
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Posted: 4/25/2012 7:55:13 AM EDT
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 I might be young, but I have gotten my hands dirty a few times. I buy it at either the hardware store or the auto parts store though. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 7:55:40 AM EDT
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36; yes.
I think I've seen it at Lowe's, but I haven't purchased any. If I have really dirty hands I'll reach for a brush. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 7:57:32 AM EDT
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I'm 34, and I keep a bar of Lava in the bathroom for when I need to cleanup after garage work. It's great at getting grease and oil off your hands and from around your fingernails.
Too harsh for everyday use, but it's great when you need it. It's like soap and sandpaper all in one. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:01:28 AM EDT
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Has anyone here had a job where you actually need lava soap to clean parts of your body other than your hands? Yes. I worked in the Oilfield repairing equipment. This required sliding under and around various pieces of large heavy equipment. I'd get filthy. Used Lava to clean my legs and arms. It worked great. It may seem girly, but I get good results from those cheese-cloth like mesh sponges. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:12:09 AM EDT
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I used the same fucking soap you did and when I was through the towel didn't look like a god damn maxi-pad.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:12:47 AM EDT
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I haven't seen Lava soap in years. Those worker type people use it. (The dainty retail candy asses don't get their hands dirty, and most of the shoppers at those 2 locations probably don't either.) |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:16:20 AM EDT
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I haven't seen Lava soap in years. Those worker type people use it. (The dainty retail candy asses don't get their hands dirty, and most of the shoppers at those 2 locations probably don't either.) 
and we're off!!!!!! 
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:18:36 AM EDT
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I'm 32 and I've used it.
Didn't know this was an "older" person thing.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:19:10 AM EDT
[#10]
Lavas ok Boraxo is the shit. Im 28
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:20:31 AM EDT
[#11]
I've had my mouth washed out with it plenty of times growing up
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:23:01 AM EDT
[#12]
See it all the time at places like VatoZone.
I prefer GOJO, personally. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:30:16 AM EDT
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I'm 32 and I've used it. Didn't know this was an "older" person thing. It's really not. Just amused that two different young adults had never heard of Lava soap. I can see from the responses here that people who get their hands dirty know what it is. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:32:06 AM EDT
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28 and I know it. My dad still swears by it. This. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:32:10 AM EDT
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I'm 32 and I've used it. Didn't know this was an "older" person thing. It's really not. Just amused that two different young adults had never heard of Lava soap. I can see from the responses here that people who get their hands dirty know what it is. I like Fast Orange with the pumice, better. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:35:39 AM EDT
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Has anyone here had a job where you actually need lava soap to clean parts of your body other than your hands? Yes. I used to have to fix excavating equipment. By the time you lean over it, slide under it, reach up through it, and oil drips or shoots out on you, you'd have grit and grime and nasty stuff everywhere. Once you get an oil film, you become a dirt magnet. I'd even get the stuff in my mouth and eyes at times. Didn't use lava on these two, though. So, I used to use lava and a stiff bristle brush, but even then I couldn't get off all of the dirt. Then I started using GoJo. Loved it. Now I use Fast Orange. Much better. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:37:41 AM EDT
[#17]
gojo > lava (that orange stuff isn't bad either)
just sayin' |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:40:44 AM EDT
[#18]
Be honest and answer without looking it up.
Depends on what you consider "young". I'm 39 but... Dad always had a bar of it in the downstairs bathroom for cleaning up after doing dirty work. Gritty as fuck but it got the job done. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:40:56 AM EDT
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I have a bar on the kitchen sink and one on the sink at the cabin. I often do the kind of work that requires it. I also have GOOP at both locations, but not on the sink (under). Of course, I do actual manual/dirty work regularly, and am not young (53). Lava soap has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:41:24 AM EDT
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30...I know what Lava soap is.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:41:28 AM EDT
[#21]
I've found Lava at the Supermarkets.
I currently use the Lava bar to clean my hands after I clean my firearms. Nothing takes the CLP and other cleaners/solvents off my hands better than Lava. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:42:20 AM EDT
[#22]
Yup I do!
And I love it! Grandpa used it, and so did my dad, and now I buy it for myself and my family because it works so well. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:44:19 AM EDT
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<40 and we have a bar of Lava by the kitchen sink, and one in the "guest" bathroom. As much as I loathe shopping at Walmart, it's the only place in town I could find it. That being said, I HAVE found it for reasonable per-case prices on the Interwebz, and have considered buying a nearly-lifetime supply that way!
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:45:24 AM EDT
[#24]
26 and yes, I know what lava soap is.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:46:07 AM EDT
[#25]
Pumice Power! (I'm 30)
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:56:39 AM EDT
[#26]
I'm twenty-four, and I cannot remember ever not knowing what Lava soap was.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 8:59:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:00:50 AM EDT
[#28]
29 yo and yes I know what Lava is, grew up using it after helping my dad work on our cars.
He had bars and also use to get liquid version from work. The liquid version came in these round bottles with an according type top if I recall correctly. The pumice worked great for getting grime off of your hands. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:02:22 AM EDT
[#29]
We always used Octagon. That shit'll take white off rice.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:06:49 AM EDT
[#30]
Nowadays soap with pumice in it also has organic seaweed, cucumber oil, and hummingbird jizz in it and is sold by people who who don't have caluses or body hair.
I haven't seen Lava soap in years, but when I got fingerprints done at the police office a few months ago, they had some liquid soap with pumice in a generic dispencer to clean up with afterwards. Might have been Lava soap. I haven't been actively looking for it, but I keep my eye out for it. I've seen it in liquid form more than I've seen it as bar soap. Someone said Walmart has it, I might check them out, I don't go there much anymore. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:06:58 AM EDT
[#31]
I preferred to use Lava soap over Goop. Lava left my hands feeling gritty unless I rinsed well with water but Goop always smelled like gasoline to me. It worked fine for cleaning hands and not needing water if it wasn't available.
Fast orange and Gojo are modern equivalents now. I don't really get my hands dirty anymore so I don't have any in the house. I should probably pick some up. Who remembers Lava's involvement with NHRA? Did they just sponsor jet powered cars or did they also sponsor top fuel funny cars? ETA I can't see the videos so I don't know if my question was answered already. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:12:00 AM EDT
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Lava soap...it's what we use to keep the volcanos clean.
Nothing is better for cleaning up your hands than to rub lava soap into a soft grade of Scotchbrite pad and then use the pad to scrub down your hands. If you think lava alone works good, just TRY THIS the next time you get really grubby. You'll be amazed. CJ |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:26:48 AM EDT
[#33]
didn't read a thing but OP if you want some real cleaning power
plain old dawn dish soap the blue stuff apply to hands and then use the lava soap with it works like crazy. if you like to not walk around without permanent greasy hands apply dawn dish soap in liberal amounts and wash your hands before working in grease/grime it somehow helps with the grease not penetrating your skin and is much easier to get off at the end of the day. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:33:57 AM EDT
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I'm 22. How else to you think I get these hands clean?  If you think that is clean you need to scrub harder. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:34:24 AM EDT
[#35]
A squirt tub of Gojo works the best in my experience.
Squirt some in your hands, rub it in real good then hit the garden hose and all that stuff rinses right off. I think citric acid is the key ingredient. With Lava, I find you have to rub the actual bar on places to rub away the grime. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:34:26 AM EDT
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didn't read a thing but OP if you want some real cleaning power plain old dawn dish soap the blue stuff apply to hands and then use the lava soap with it works like crazy. if you like to not walk around without permanent greasy hands apply dawn dish soap in liberal amounts and wash your hands before working in grease/grime it somehow helps with the grease not penetrating your skin and is much easier to get off at the end of the day. My brother called me a couple of months ago to complain about Dawn soap. They have changed the formula and now there is no mention of "grease cutting" on the bottle. My wife subsequently did find a bottle of "Classic Dawn" and bought it. In the mean time I'm stuck with a huge pump-top bottle I bought at Sam's club that is the worthless kind. 
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:36:03 AM EDT
[#37]
Having used Lava, Boraxo....I'd use Fast Orange first for the typical mechanics hand cleaner.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:42:23 AM EDT
[#38]
Yes. Soap with pumice in it.
/me goes to double check... ETA: Yup. 
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:42:55 AM EDT
[#39]
Lava is great.
Powdered boraxo is better/faster/cleaner-er, but it doesn't last very long. |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:47:34 AM EDT
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didn't read a thing but OP if you want some real cleaning power plain old dawn dish soap the blue stuff apply to hands and then use the lava soap with it works like crazy. if you like to not walk around without permanent greasy hands apply dawn dish soap in liberal amounts and wash your hands before working in grease/grime it somehow helps with the grease not penetrating your skin and is much easier to get off at the end of the day. I like to mix Ajax and dish soap |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:50:08 AM EDT
[#41]
I'm not young but Lava works great for getting the purple stains off the tips of your fingers after shelling purple hull peas.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:50:15 AM EDT
[#42]
28 here, always bought mine at pep boys or checkers. I usually preferred Orange Goop with pumice. I also found transmission fluid helped clean my hands, too.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:53:24 AM EDT
[#43]
When you ask 20 year old people who have never done real work, you'll get answers like that
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:53:26 AM EDT
[#44]
19 and yes. Use it everyday in the motorpool
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:57:36 AM EDT
[#45]
Dawn dishliquid soap removes grease and oil pretty damn good, who needs lava soap?
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Posted: 4/25/2012 10:00:20 AM EDT
[#46]
isn't lava bars the stuff they give you in the pokey?
Wal marts got it |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 10:01:29 AM EDT
[#47]
Lava Soap smells like farm boy!
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Posted: 4/25/2012 10:02:37 AM EDT
[#48]
21 and no.
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Posted: 4/25/2012 10:10:06 AM EDT
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Who remembers "Death Valley Days" hosted by Ronald Reagan, and the 20 Mule Team Borax commercials?
   I sent in the box tops, or something, and got this plastic model of a 20 mule team borax wagon thing.   You couldn't really play with a model of a 20 mule team.  |
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Posted: 4/25/2012 10:10:23 AM EDT
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Lava soap is as good as ever! Always keep some around the house even though I use a HD pumice paste soap from work most of the time.
Anybody remember the (1960's?) Lava commercials with Art Arfons of Green Monster jet car fame? Guess that makes me REALLY old! |
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