Removing the smell of garlic

[tiny e.a]

I was chopping copious amounts of garlic on saturday and the smell is still on my finger tips, I washed my hands throughout cutting it to try and reduce the smell, and immediately after I'd finished and yet there it still is!

Does anyone have any idea what you should wash your fingers with to get the smell off? I tried lemon before, natures cleansers and what not! but it didn't work

[boobesque]

Wash your hands in soap and rub them over a stainless steel spoon, works a treat, i actually have a steel soap

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!10377

Its great!

[tiny e.a]

cheers boobesque, perhaps I shall have fragrant fingertips yet!

[ermintrude35]

...washing with salt or sugar helps....

...also years abck a chef I knew swore by ruing your hands with parsley to rid them of garlic?....

[ermintrude35]

*rubbing

[Figi]

Why bother - the smell of garlic isjust wonderful.

[meglet]

Try rubbing vinegar on them. Brilliant stuff, it can clean toilet bowls!