Professional hand cleaner: protection and safety for your skin

The skin is a formidable protective barrier against external aggression from daily activities at home and at work: it is our job to take care of it with gentle hygiene, using professional hand cleansers and the most effective protective creams.

Skin tissues are constantly regenerating themselves to keep the surface of the skin and its hydrolipidic film in top condition. However, there are many stresses to which the epidermis, especially that of the hands, is subjected in daily life: chemicals, extreme temperatures, frequent washing, UV rays and other potentially irritating agents undermine its health.

Many of the main aggressions that the epidermis faces occur in the working environment, a context in which the hands of professionals are exposed to repeated stress that can affect their well-being and physiological regenerative capacities. It is therefore essential to protect your hands, guaranteeing them proper protection and effective cleansing that respects their needs.

Neglecting this aspect is a risk, as irritated skin that is unable to regenerate itself properly is more sensitive and permeable skin, which can easily go into dryness, cracking, redness and even full-blown allergic reactions and dermatitis.

 

Nettuno professional hand cleaning cream: advantages and types

The hand-washing cream formulated by Nettuno Research was created precisely to guarantee your hands a high level of cleansing, while fully respecting the delicate balance of the epidermis. How does it work and what are its pluses?

The use of common handwash paste is now widespread in all work environments, but handwash cream represents a new frontier in the development of the classic paste formulation. Nettuno Hand Wash Cream is in fact formulated with the most innovative ingredients, capable of preserving the health of the skin even after years of intensive work.

The hand cream has a concentrated and particularly creamy consistency that retains the high cleaning power of traditional handwash paste, but achieves a higher degree of gentleness on the skin. Its excellent cleaning action makes it ideal for use in all professional contexts and for removing all types of dirt: e.g. grease and lubricants from machine shops and body shops, bitumen used in construction, residues from metallurgical, mining and petrochemical processing, rust and lubricants with which plumbers, blacksmiths, farmers and gardeners come into contact.

In short, its use knows no limitations and its formulation makes it suitable for frequent use in total safety. Nettuno’s experience has enabled us to create four different lines of handwash cream, each with specific characteristics and objectives.

MacroCream Hand Wash Cream boasts exceptional cleansing properties, ensured by its vegetable microgranules derived from hazelnut and almond shells. It is hazelnut-coloured and its formula, with a pH of 5.5, is enriched with emollient substances. Combined with the absence of solvents, these features allow the skin to be deeply cleansed, while leaving it soft and adequately protected.

The MacroCream Ecolabel line retains the same basic characteristics as MacroCream, such as high performance against all types of dirt and a nourishing formula free of aggressive agents. It has EcoLabel certification, one of the most important labels in the environmental certification sector, which rewards products that are sustainable both ecologically and socially. Indeed, Nettuno’s mission has always been to offer a brand of excellence that also stands out for its ethical commitment and low impact on the Planet.

La Rossa in Crema handwash cream, on the other hand, is recognised among professional users for its typical red colour and pleasant sandalwood patchouli scent. Rossa is appreciated for its excellent cleaning power derived from the gentle abrasive action of its mineral microgranules. What makes this formulation unique is the presence of sericin, a natural protein derived from the silkworm that offers an excellent emollient action on the skin and a valid support to the skin’s regenerative processes. The Rossa in Crema has a pH of 6.7 and is also solvent-free, for cleansing that is suitable for even the most sensitive skin: after cleansing with this hand cleansing cream, the skin is perfectly clean, but also moisturised and soft.

Finally, the Linea Blanca Extrafluida has a pleasant lavender scent and an ice-white colour and contains olive extract and mineral microgranules among its ingredients. While the granules guarantee an extremely effective cleaning action against all types of dirt, the olive oil provides a nourishing, soothing and emollient effect. Solvent-free and with a pH of 6.7, Blanca Extrafluida is one of Nettuno’s best allies for the well-being of your hands.

How to use a professional hand cleaning cream?

The use of hand cleaning cream is practically identical to that of the more classic hand-washing paste. In fact, it is sufficient to take a few grams with dry hands and then rub the product into the skin until the dirt is completely emulsified. Finally, you can safely rinse your hands under water, preferring a lukewarm temperature.

Being able to wash hands without soap, but still achieving a perfect elimination of dirt, allows one to preserve the physiological balances of the skin, often undermined by the excessively aggressive action of surfactants, petrolatum, silicones or the fragrances present in common industrial soaps not explicitly dedicated to professionals.

The best way to maximise the effectiveness of a professional hand-washing cream is to use it in synergy with other suitable products formulated to meet the needs of workers’ hands.

Protecting the skin after the shift

What to do after cleaning your hands with one of Nettuno’s hand-washing creams? Ideally, you should provide your skin with additional nourishment through the use of a good moisturising cream. In our catalogue you can find Protexem Rinnova, which you can apply to both hands and face immediately after your shift to moisturise and nourish the skin and strengthen its ability to regenerate itself. In this way you will avoid episodes of irritation, dryness and flaking, often early symptoms of real occupational skin diseases.

Do you already use hand protection cream at work?

If, on the other hand, you wish to further protect your hands during your work shift, in addition to using the most appropriate personal protective equipment designed for your category, you can also count on the support of Nettuno’s protective creams. Protexsol Professional, for example, is designed to create a thin barrier layer on the skin to defend it and reduce the penetration of potentially harmful external agents into the skin. Crucial if you deal daily with aggressive substances such as grease, lubricating oil, metal powders, carbon black, solvents, oil-based paints, graphite, fibreglass, glues or resin.

 

When is hand cleaning cream not the right choice?

To establish a correct hand cleansing programme, it is always essential to assess the context of use, the task of the person who will be using the products, and the type of substances to be removed from the skin.

Although Nettuno hand-washing cream is extremely effective against all types of dirt, in some cases there are products that are more in line with the professional’s needs. For
example, when the need is to remove special dirt, it is possible to use solutions such as Rossa in Gel, a hand wash enriched with mineral microgranules and a specific solvent for removing substances such as paint, enamel, resins, glues and silicones.

Nettungel Orange and Manipulite Cremagel are also ideal for removing traces of the most technical dirt from your hands, thanks to the action of natural solvents and mineral microgranules. INKO Special and COLOR Special, on the other hand, are designed to remove inks and dyes and pigments respectively. For those who often work off-site, Sendy Wipes are an excellent alternative. They can be used without water and are perfect for removing lubricants, grease, paint, graphite, silicone and other professional soiling from the skin.
Finally, for those who work in the food industry, the Nettuno programme offers targeted products to preserve workplace hygiene and maintain the standards imposed by the industry’s strict regulations. For the HACCP protocol, handwashing is indispensable and Nettuno offers professionals liquid soaps with sanitising action, moisturising and sanitising solutions with alcohol or without alcohol and without rinsing, as well as emollient creams and barrier creams effective against watery substances and risks from occlusive PPE.

Nettuno’s pluses: practicality, sustainability and savings

Nettuno has succeeded in positioning itself among the leaders in the production of professional handwash pastes and creams, thanks to its constant search for effective solutions for workers’ needs. Indeed, we aim to improve our technological standards and evolve our products by always listening to the needs of our old and new users.

How do we always provide you with cutting-edge answers? By investing in scientific research and in the training of our team, a valuable resource to which we provide a real opportunity to update every day. This is the only way we can maintain the high quality of the Nettuno brand and its proposals.

Furthermore, we only use high quality raw materials, which we select from the most dermocompatible, environmentally friendly and ethically sustainable naturally derived raw materials. We are also constantly improving our packaging, so that it is always practical and functional: the Nettuno containers are designed to always dispense the right amount of product, allowing for absolutely hygienic distribution within working environments.

In this way we help you to increase savings and reduce waste, both of hand cream and of containers and packaging. Nettuno packaging is environmentally friendly and produced using recycled and recyclable plastics, but our commitment to sustainability does not stop there: we have an all-round eco-friendly approach and adopt production processes that aim to reduce the consumption of energy resources, minimise emissions, increase reuse and recycling possibilities and keep our company’s environmental footprint low.

Our hand wash creams are therefore an excellent partner for your professional life and a way to look towards a greener future together.

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