Have you noticed that strawberries and blueberries have hit the stores? I don’t know about you, but after a day of making jam, slicing, and rinsing berries, etc. my hands are always stained.
Here’s a little trick I’ve learned to get the stains off of your hands, rather than scrubbing them until your skin comes off: Make a paste of cornmeal and lemon juice. Rub the paste on your hands, let it sit a minute or two and then rinse it off. Easy peasy and you didn’t have to commit chemical warfare on your skin. {Of course, you could always just wear rubber gloves, but those things make me feel like a fumbling idiot–funny how one thin layer of rubber can completely take away your slicing and dicing coordination.}
How about YOU, do you have a trick to remove stains from your hands?
Or do you wear it proudly, like a self-sufficient badge of honor?
~Mavis
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Madam Chow says
Great tip – I needed that! I’ve been pitting, freezing, baking with, and making jam with sour cherries. 16 quarts worth.
Tammy says
Huh, wonder if this would work five days after the fact? My hands are still stained from pitting about 30 pounds of sweet cherries!
Mavis Butterfield says
5 days? Wow!!
Jill Frank says
My hands are always stained after picking blackberries. The areas that are worse are under and around the fingernails. I may have to try this – although with all those cuts I get, the lemon juice may not be a good idea. 😉 I guess it depends on how bad I want clean hands.
Marivene says
I have always found the easiest way to remove berry, cherry or beet stains from my hands was to use Comet to scour either a tub or a sink. When I am finished, the stains are gone from my hands, & the tub or sink is clean, too – – bonus!
Mavis says
And your hands don’t have any sort of reaction to it? My hands must be sensitive cause I always have to wear gloves!
Chris says
Wow. This worked. Been picking, washing and freezing wild blackberries for two days, my hands were awful.
Linda says
My finger tips and cuticles always turn dark regardless of which fruit I am preparing for canning. I put my fruits in lemon juice for use fruit fresh and they are still dark