Nailbrushes - a thing of the past?

Maybe if you're retired or in a posh job but my husband's a mechanic and uses one everyday .

I often have my hands in soil, so a nailbrush an absolute must!

One at the allotment and one in each bathroom.

We have nailbrushes at all of our sinks, and they are used all the time.

When I started my nursing training back in the 80s, nailbrushes were present at every sink. However they soon disappeared and several years later were removed altogether unless single use only, as it was discovered how they harbour germs and bacteria.
Maybe that’s why they are so hard to find now.

I stayed with my daughter and family recently, and my grandson aged 5, proudly showed me his nailbrush and demonstrated how to use it.

i buy my nail brushes in packs of 3 from poundshops usually online, i have to use a lot of creams/lotions and some are greasy for my psoriasis, i always use rubber gloves for the dishes so my hands are rarely wet except washing in the loo, i keep one next to laptop that i cover with a wetwipe and wipe over the keyboard, i have problems with my hands, so covering one with a wetwipe gets into places that hurt my fingers.

I do gardening, DIY and the cooking so I have nail brushes in the kitchen, the utility room, the toilet, the bathroom and the en suite. I change them frequently.
I have never thought about putting them in the dishwasher.
I always scrub vigorously after cutting up chicken! I also use antibac hand wash.

I recall the school nurse checking our finger nails after searching for nits in our hair, any bitten or dirty nails were commented on! Later during my nursing career nail brushes were considered to be a source of infection and were banned.

Yes I have one in each bathroom and in the kitchen.. always there on the sink never in the drawer... .

I have always used nail brushes, one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom.

I have always had wooden ones, utility room and bathrooms.
Used almost daily when I have been gardening or painting at some point during the day. After use, it’s a swish in clean soapy water. Something I have been doing for over 50 years and it hasn’t killed me yet!

We have one in the kitchen/bathroom and down stairs loo.
The one in the bathroom is a fishmongers one,it has really hard bristles and does the job faster then the softer ones.

Three sinks all them on the side and I have a tiny travel one.

A very necessary item here! One in both bathrooms, and by the kitchen sink, plus I have a small one that stays in the sponge bag I take away with me.

I have two upstairs and downstairs but now its been mentioned I haven't spotted one at DS and family.

I one read a tip suggesting that you scrape your nails down a bar of soap before gardening so that no dirt can get under there. I don't do much in the garden, that's DH realm, but I always wear gloves.

I have nail brushes at all wash basins and use one every day to scrub my cuticles in the hope that it will soften them so that I can push them back and get tidier nails, but after 50! years I don't think my nails will ever grow or be pretty. They never grow long enough to gather any dirt under them.

2 Kitchen 1 for potatoes, 1 for gardening or other dirt under nail jobs.
1 in the bathroom.
Ours are made of bamboo. DDs recommended them to me as that’s what they use.

I use them and frequently put them in the dishwasher.

I do a lot of gardening, so have one in the downstairs loo. My daughters, though, prefer to wrap a baby wipe around a nail stick or tweezers. Their nails are longer than mine.

I have three, like most others, in bathroom, downstairs loo and by the kitchen sink, for vegetables. The bathroom one is also used to scrub any mess from teeth cleaning on the wash basin. I pop them in the dishwasher when they need washing.

I have one somewhere. I use it mainly in the summer if I’ve done some gardening, which is very rarely these days.

dogsmother

Revolting things. They just sit there harbouring germs in my view.

Can you tell us what you use instead to clean ingrained gardening dirt in your nails and nail beds dogsmother? If there is an alternative I’d love to know.

Revolting things. They just sit there harbouring germs in my view.

We have one at each sink/basin. The only trouble I found when buying a new one was that are not as stiff as they used to be.