How do you protect your hands?

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Obvious safety tools like hearing, eye and respiratory protection should be common place now. But how do you protect your skin from harsh chemicals while working on the car and then again during clean up?

I have been using nitrile gloves for several years now as they keep my fingernails from getting greasy. Protecting them from grease stains and heavy scrubbing also keeps my older hands from getting torn up with abrasive hand cleaners.

Just discovered that rubbing my hands with olive oil before donning gloves helps two ways, the oil is good for my skin and it makes taking the gloves off easier. My normal technique for glove removal is to roll the glove down to mid palm and blow into the glove. Tonight, after playing in the garage all day and having used the olive oil, my hands feel great, they are not dried out.

My hands don't sweat much in these gloves in the winter, but the inside of the gloves are very sweaty during warm months. Letting my hands soak in water all day isn't the best for them either. I wonder if the olive oil trick will work in the summer.