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Rubber Gloves?

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  • Another one for BizzyBee gloves here (these ones: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=265384847 ). I suffer from very bad eczema on my hands so need unlined gloves. These ones do very well and survive quite a long time, probably because they're a bit thicker.
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  • CupOfChai
    CupOfChai Posts: 1,411 Forumite
    Cheers guys, I am currently using the Waitrose ones. Was hoping there might be some cheaper ones but thinking about it they have lasted for ages! I think I'd best get a couple of spare pairs in case I one day need some new ones and then find they've stopped stocking them in my local store.
  • sjprmc01
    sjprmc01 Posts: 917 Forumite
    I've been buying the ones out of home bargains as of late they are about 59/69p and last well the gloves are pink and they are in a pink and blue packet I think

    I used to get purple ones which I think we're made by sponges and they were brill and lasted ages but they stopped doing them :mad:
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  • luxor4t
    luxor4t Posts: 11,125 Forumite
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    Wilkinsons - I use Stardrops which eats gloves, even M+rigolds.


    I must look at H&B's gloves, good price :)
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  • Arthog
    Arthog Posts: 225 Forumite
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    If you have Exzema, find out the cause and ban it from your life! I am allergic to Phenoxyethanol which is in many washing-up liquids as well as toiletries so I avoid those as well as using gloves.
    As another poster said, ones with holes in can still be used. I mark an X with a permanent marker.
    I recently bought a pack of 2 pairs of rubber gloves and they are all left hand ones! We live too far from the shop to take them back. I'll try turning some of them inside out!
  • floss2
    floss2 Posts: 8,030 Forumite
    Another vote for Marigolds - have tried loads of others but keep going back as they are better VFM.
  • Has anyone found cheap latex-free gloves? I'm allergic to latex and buy my washing up gloves in T*sco but they are so expensive, and if a tiny bit of water gets inside them they smell terrible and have to be thrown away. help!
  • Callie22
    Callie22 Posts: 3,444 Forumite
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    I'm not sure if they still do them but I've always like the rubber gloves from IKEA. They were always fairly cheap and I would stock up when I visited.
  • gayleanne
    gayleanne Posts: 330 Forumite
    Has anyone found cheap latex-free gloves? I'm allergic to latex and buy my washing up gloves in T*sco but they are so expensive, and if a tiny bit of water gets inside them they smell terrible and have to be thrown away. help!

    Boots do them, they are £2.39 a pair, and you will find them in the section that has the allergy products, like the washing up liquid, and soaps, or have to ask for them, every boots I go into they do not put them with other rubber gloves. It is a trial to find them.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    why not use the cheap disposable plastic gloves if you have a latex allergy?
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