Remove Stains From Working Hands & Nails In One Easy Step

So I’ve been working in the garden a lot lately, which is great, because, yay flowers and vegetables! I’ve loved grubbing around in the dirt for the last 50 or so years, but lately, now that I’m blogging at Deep Roots at Home, I’m extra glad to have a chance to get outdoors and be off the computer for a few hours every day.

I believe that microorganisms in soil are healthy for your microbiome!

However, there is a downside to gardening. It tends to completely trash your hands!

I seldom wears gloves (unless I’m working with my roses) and don’t protect them like I know I should, so I need a little help with my hands from time to time.

They have never been truly pretty to my eye, but my children tell me that they LOVE my hands! They say it has something to do with all the work my hands have done through the years for them, I think. If you’ve ever heard the Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, then you know how ‘becoming real’ feels!

May it never be said that stay-at-home moms don’t work!

But now I’ll get to the point… right when I come into the house, I’m done with the dirt and stains on my hands and under my nails! I want them clean again!

I will show you how I have always done it!

Remove Stains From Hands & Nails

I said NO to using those gritty hand cleaners like GOJO or Fast Orange for mechanics and farmers that contain ingredients with chemicals or harsh cleaners in them.

There are times I need a nail brush first to get the big stuff, but ohhh! the stains still there!

I found out several years ago just what a good friend simple lemon juice is – the inexpensive store-bought kind in a plastic bottle. I save the healthy organic lemon juice for cooking and my Good Morning Sunshine Drink or my Lemon-Turmeric Detox Drink!

Lemon Juice Fades Stains, Softens Skin, Lightens Scars and Age Spots

Straight (inexpensive) lemon juice works, because the citric acid in the lemon juice completely fades the stain to the skin! It also softens the skin, and over time can lighten scars and dark spots.

I keep a bottle of lemon juice in the refrigerator dedicated (labeled “for hands only”) for this purpose.

It also has disinfecting properties to clean small cuts and scrapes lowering the risk of infection by breaking the cell walls of germs.

Directions:

• Wash hands with soap and/or nail brush to get off the worst of the dirt and grime.

• Dry to remove excess water. I always have greenish-brown stains left.

• Squirt or pour a small amount of lemon juice directly on your fingernails and hands, rub them together a little and let it remain where you need it for 15-30 seconds. That’s all.

• You should see the stains fade out right before your eyes.

• Repeat if necessary.

disinfecting properties of lemon juice — You can actually see right where the stains were if you compare pictures and look real hard. They are slightly orangey in color, but with another 30 seconds will be gone! If ground in, you may need to repeat.

Brace yourself if you’ve got some cuts or rose thorn punctures! Ha-ha!

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Comments

Amanda O

July 19, 2011 at 9:01 pm

I am with you on this! I NEVER wear gloves when working outside, and my nails are always unsightly afterwards. So thanks for the great tip!!! =D

Jasmine

August 01, 2011 at 11:40 pm

Excellent tip. Thanks for linking it up.

Amy

August 04, 2011 at 7:01 pm

Does this work for berry stains too?

- Jacqueline
  
  August 04, 2011 at 11:11 pm
  
  Amy,
  I have only used it for raspberry stains once, but I mainly just use it for the dark greenish/brown stains from pulling weeds and getting the dirt stains under my nails. Sometimes, I have to use it twice or even 3 times. Good luck! I really am working at wearing gloves =)
  
Nikki

July 07, 2016 at 4:16 pm

Thank you very much for this awesome tip. My hands and nails are always horribly stained due to working out in the garden and I would scrub them to no avail. My hands were black and I just used the lemon juice and they are the cleanest I have seen them in a long time. I am very excited!!

- Jacqueline
  
  July 07, 2016 at 9:02 pm
  
  Yay, Nikki!!! I just did mine from the garden about an hour ago 😀
  
DRC

October 01, 2019 at 10:56 am

This absolutely works – I’ve been looking for a cleaner for quite sometime and who knew it would be this simple –

Thank you-

Karen

May 25, 2020 at 6:12 pm

Wow! Thank you. I had no idea about this. Worked in seconds!!

- Jacqueline
  
  May 25, 2020 at 6:13 pm
  
  Yes, Karen, it is pretty amazing, isn’t it!?! Thanks for letting me know 😀 Enjoy your garden! ~J
  
Hannah J Parrish

July 21, 2021 at 5:58 am

I had white latex paint on me, in large quantities, and Purell advanced hand sanitizer took the dried paint off in seconds. All that I did was rub it on the paint and it came off instantly. Then wiped it off with a cloth

- Jacqueline
  
  July 21, 2021 at 10:27 am
  
  Oh, dear, Hannah, I wonder how much hand sanitizer was absorbed into your skin. I avoid it like the plague.
  Never used it once during the covid scare! Did you know latex paint is water based and will come off with soap and water?
  
  Please don’t use the many hand sanitizers regularly, as they have other harsh chemicals in them. ~j