Walnuts - my hands are brown!!!

[snohare]

I was under the impression that walnut juice was famous for its ineradicable stain, which goes only when your skin wears out ! I'd be interested in how/if you do manage to get it off...
Headfry, you do realise that if you and your brother are serial nut-nuts, and frequent this forum, then you are a subspecies...grapenuts !
(But walnut go into that too deeply.)

[Two_Sheds]

Walnut is a good natural dye for cloth, but "was mostly used to dye hair and skin"
Using natural plant dyes

[Hilary B]

Walnut juice is tricky, but I THINK my oil-flour-salt recipe will accelerate the fading (which is probably all you will get).
Hands get washed so often that maybe it will fade reasonably quickly anyway.

[Headfry]

VVG sorry for delay difficult to get on vine these days.

I will ask my Brother this weekend, but knowing him he just plonked it in a pot of earth - bless, he is really good at getting trees to grow though.

Snohare - 'nutters' oh yes that would be us - yay i'm a 'grapenut' and I love it

and, YES my hands are still very very brown
I have tried most things now, but I still look like I have wooden hands - ho hum

[stella]

Dont worry it will wear of, takes about a week We have walnut trees in Italy and I always gloves when picking them, my husband never, and the stain does go eventually. Enjoy the nuts

[rdmstff]

My husbands hands are the same, he quickley gets through rubber gloves and now lives with the stain until it wears off.
We planted 6 young walnut trees some 20 years ago, in the past my goats had seen them off before they fruited, this time they are double fenced. They have certainly given us plenty of fruit. We do have a problem with drying them as they seem to go mouldy, now we dry them in the Rayburn on a low heat. I prefer them green

[Flummery]

I found that nothing lifted it but time. About a fortnight should do it!

[Glutton4...]

My FiL swears by Beef Dripping as a hand cleaner!

I picked Walnuts yesterday, and, strangely, now have stained hands. I'm going to try Sw*rfega - will report back.

Walnuts are eeeeeeeeeeasy to grow. Squirrel buries nut. Nut grows. Simple. I have a trug full, drying in the shed, picked yesterday. If anyone wants any, PM me...

[Glutton4...]

My hands are cleaner after a good scrub with Sw@rfega. It's the orange version, if that helps. My hands weren't badly stained, but noticeable. Could be worth a try. Take a trip to your nearest H@lfords, or your friendly motor mechanic may be able to let you have a spoon-full!

[Headfry]

At last the brown is wearing off! yay

[snohare]

I take it that walnut theft will never be a professional career for criminals...too easy to get caught brown handed !

[Headfry]

I wal'd nut do it without wearing gloves!

[Glutton4...]

My Dad was moaning yesterday that his hands are brown! They go clean when he washes them, but the brown comes back as they dry! LOLOLOL

[snohare]

I think it can be safely said - offhand, there is no immediate remedy.