Industrial Hand Cleaner Buying Guide: Find the Best Option

Choosing an industrial hand cleaner is not just about getting hands clean. The right formula helps remove the specific soils your team deals with every day without beating up skin or slowing down workflow. These include oil and grease, ink, paint, carbon, food soils, or general shop grime. In this guide, we break down the product attributes to help you make the best decision for your facility.

How to Choose the Right Hand Cleaner

Whether you have been using store-bought hand cleaner or are familiar with industrial hand cleaners, you may have questions about what’s best for your facility.

Start by identifying the soils your team handles most often. Are they heavy soils like grease, ink, paint, or carbon, or is your priority everyday hygiene in shared spaces? Do you have concerns about your current product not scrubbing dirt off well enough, or are you looking for a gentler approach? Is your facility focused on environmental impact?

Once you know your soil type, hygiene needs, and sensitivity concerns, you can match your facility to the right formula.

State’s Industrial Hand Cleaners

State Industrial offers 6 different industrial options to tackle your messiest days.

• Ecolution® Industrial Hand Cleaner
• State® Scrub
• Citro-Blast®
• Kleen Up™ Orange
• Grunge Fighter™
• Walnut Scrub™ Hand Cleaner

Four of these offer a variety of standard pumice options to help easily remove dirt and grease, while two take slightly different, yet just as powerful paths.

Power Activated Pumice

Ecolution® Industrial Hand Cleaner is one of the options that provides a deep clean. This product lifts out embedded dirt while still using shea butter and skin emollients to prevent dry hands. This powerful hand cleaner delivers cleanliness with a pleasant citrus fragrance.

In addition to providing clean hands, Ecolution® Industrial Hand Cleaner is EcoLogo™ Certified under UL 2784 standards. This product meets strict health, environmental, and safety requirements that your facility may require. Are you managing a school, office, hospital, or any place seeking to reduce their environmental impact? Your standards may align with this product.

State® Scrub is another easy-on-the-skin, tough-on-the-grease industrial hand cleaner. The lotionized formula contains lanolin and skin emollients. These are built to get rid of the drying and chapping you may get with other industrial hand cleaners. This option offers a light fragrance to leave hands smelling fresh and clean.

Opting for State Scrub® is for those situations where you want the clean but don’t want to sacrifice the cleaning power of a strong pumice scrub. The State Scrub® formula can be used with or without water to remove grime. This is beneficial in auto shops or any industrial facility where you may face tough soil.

Citrus Solvents: Naturally Fighting Grime

If you are looking for an option with natural citrus solvents,

Citro-Blast® provides a pleasant odor and can cut through the worst dirt and grime. Similarly, State’s

Kleen Up™ Orange provides a citrus scent while providing grime-fighting properties ready to tackle your worst.

Citrus solvents combined with the lanolin and skin emollients provide a light scent that does not leave a heavy perfume odor. Similar to a few of our other hand cleaners, the skin care inclusions help prevent drying, chapping, or cracking.

Non-Pumice: Different Kind of Clean

As far as tackling the stubborn grime without pumice, State Industrial offers that too. Depending on your skin, sometimes there is still a concern that the pumice will be too drying or irritating. Options like

Grunge Fighter™ contain absolutely no petroleum solvents or pumice and are enriched with lanolin to condition hands. Additionally, this product can be diluted for more economical use.

Leaving behind nothing besides a light fragrance, Grunge Fighter™ won’t be overpowering or drying. This versatile product can be diluted with up to 50% with water for any of your areas that may require a lighter hand cleaner. This is useful in areas where maybe your entire facility isn’t working with the same level of grime, and the hand cleaner needs to differ.

Walnut Scrub™ Hand Cleaner is the newest addition to the hand care line, using cosmetic-grade walnut shell scrubbers instead of your traditional pumice. This super concentrated hand cleaner tackles stubborn soils, does not contain petroleum distillates, solvents, or dyes, and protects hands from drying and cracking.

In addition to the benefits Walnut Scrub™ Hand Cleaner provides, it is also not an allergy threat due to the initial processing of the walnut shells. Walnut Scrub™ Hand Cleaner is ideal for maintenance shops, production facilities, and other commercial workspaces due to its powerful cleaning action. Pair this with its skin-friendly ingredients, and you have a solution built for dependable, non-irritating performance.

What Works Best for my Facility?

Now that you know your options, let’s consider what works best for your facility. The great thing about any of the hand cleaners listed above is that there is so much versatility. You can tackle the worst oil and dirt while maintaining healthy skin. You are able to meet your company’s standards by remaining environmentally friendly but still taking care of your employees.

If the industrial hand cleaner options seem too aggressive for what you need, State Industrial also offers lotionized and foaming hand care, built for lighter, more frequent use. These products contain no pumice and are strictly for day-to-day institutional hand cleaning.

Interested in learning more about our newest hand care line addition, Walnut Scrub™ Hand Cleaner, or any of our previously existing hand care options? Read more below:

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