How to clean your fingernails

[Duncan Grimmond]

I was told by my mother that Vim and soap was good. There was also a soap bar (probably carbolic) which contained pumice, I've forgotten the trade name. The best I ever found was a product called "Boraxo" , proudly labelled "A twenty mule-team product" that my father-in-law got from work, he was an engineer for the NCB. The mixture of coal dust and grease/oil is notoriously hard to shift. It was a powdered soap presumably with a borax component and some lanolin which was to be used with wet hands and it worked really well leaving the skin soft. I still have a small amount left, though he retired in 1986 IIRC.