Curad Nitrile Exam Gloves: Amazon
Nitrile gloves are a staple in anyone’s garage or shop. Some people use Mechanix gloves, which offer more padding and protection over disposable gloves. But when you’re working with fluids like motor oil or are in need of a more tactile feel, they just don’t work. Nitrile gloves are resistant to oil and other types of chemicals. They also allow you better feel such as times where you need to work on smaller car parts or hardware.
Over the many years working on cars, I’ve gone through a ton of these disposable gloves. A popular one that is available on Amazon is the Curad Nitrile Exam Gloves. Currently, their gloves are advertised as ‘One Size Fits All’, however I’ve used the ones that have a specific size to them. I can’t speak to how the one size will fit, as I find it hard to believe that you’ll get a good fit if you have only one size available.
When I bought these Curad Nitrile Gloves, it was a medium size and had 200 powder-free disposable gloves in one box. The thing I like about using nitrile gloves is that you get a lot of gloves, so whenever your hands get dirty and slippery, you can simply remove them and throw on a new pair.
With a new pair of gloves, you suddenly have clean hands ready to continue working on your project. Even during the switchover from the old dirty gloves to the new, you don’t even need to touch any part of the dirtied gloves. This makes working with nitrile gloves totally mess-free.
The Curad Nitrile Gloves are pretty thin and probably because of that, very comfortable. When I’m deciding out of the disposable gloves I have to pick from, more often than not I grab these thinner ones because they offer much better feel than the other thicker ones that I have. And because they are so thin, they can usually fit a lot more gloves inside of one box for you to use.
Whenever I do regular oil changes on my vehicles at home, I usually pick these gloves as they are just more comfortable than the rest. They offer good resistance to motor oils and it makes my oil changes easy. When I’m all done with the oil change and remove the gloves, my hands are totally clean.
The main issue with these gloves is that they are thin. The tradeoff for being so comfortable is that they tend to rip easily. These seem more prone to puncture and rips than other thin dispoable nitrile gloves.
For bigger jobs such as heavy cleaning of car parts where your hands will likely get doused in oil and other chemicals or fluids, you definitely don’t want to be using these gloves. For most other jobs, these work great. Just beware of handling things that will poke the gloves, which then causes the gloves to rip easily.
Curad Nitrile Exam Gloves: Amazon
