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.
ReplyDeleteI had done as you said last season to clean my gloves. But they mildewed. Have you experienced the problem of mildew?
ReplyDeleteI cleaned my gloves last season as recommended above, but they got mildew. Have you had mildew on your gloves?
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