Can bleach absorb into your skin?

Take a good look at the night sky some time when you are out in the country where there is no artificial lighting. Then consider this. - Science tells us that the stars (Planets) in the Universe are situated at the same approximate distance apart as are the atoms in our bodies. Yes our skin is very porous, even though we see, and believe it to be water tight, it is not. I wouldn't dream of putting my hands into a solution of bleach. Take Time to put on the rubber gloves! It will reflect favorably on your health.

I don't know if it absorbs into your skin or not but I wouldn't touch bleach without gloves. It burns my hands when I touch it. You really should put some gloves on. You just never know what some chemicals do to your body when you are touching them every day. I would start putting some gloves on if it were me.
Stay safe,
Trish

Hi tlb! I really don't know. It sure is hard to get that smell
off your hands! I clean my bathtub with bleach and I can't get
that smell off my hands. So I can just imagine how you must
feel. I'm sure it does get absorbed into the skin. I don't
know if it can do any real damage. I know what it does if
it gets on your clothes. I have plenty of bleach stained
clothes to prove it! It sure can't be very good because it
is very strong. When I am cleaning the bathtub it gets into
my throat sometimes and it burns. Not only does it make my
throat and eyes burn it makes me choke! I don't know, but I
think we should check it out further!

Household bleach is usually hypochlorite which is an oxidizing agent and it would cause some chemical reaction with your skin on contact. Better to always wear gloves and try to minimize exposure. The irritating smell is chlorine gas (Cl2) and it has a very bad effect on your health so try to minimize the inhalation of fumes as well.

You should tell the manager that you need gloves! I used to work at a bakery before where we used blech to clean the floors a swell. We were required to wear gloves for it for safety purposes. Anyway, I think bleach smells good, it's just that it does make your hands dry! So obviously, it is absorbed into the skin! Haha! just slather on moisturizer after washing your hands.:)

see first let me tell u that bleach is not good to use on daily basis it should be used for 15 days interval,if u use on daily basis ur skin gets darken,may be u feel that i have talked something against the property of bleach because it whitens the skin by removing dirt but it is true and i have personally faced it. And coming to smell it is bleach property and u shouldn use hands u shud use a brush to paint over face and please keep the bleach away from eyebrows and eyes otherwise they will start burning and there is also a chance of loosing ur eyes..!! So please dont use it on regular basis

What's kind bleach are you used for clean?usually,the bleach which direct contact combined with harmless chemical,but the bleach you have used affect your eyes and you feel burning,it means that some oxidation reaction is occuring,obviously your hands have affected by this bleach,you have no feeling with your hands only because hands not sensitive as eyes.for your safty,you must wear gloves when you are working,if it's impossibility,you need wash your hand more with fresh water.

it can be absorbed. i am not sure though. so better use the gloves if you can. i think it will minimize risk

Yes, bleach is absorbed through your skin and, besides making your hands extremely dry, it's not good for the blood stream either.

Do you have to use bleach? Do you think your employer would use "Simple Green" all purpose cleaner or something similar?

If you really don't have time for gloves, be sure to keep a lot of hand lotion available. A really good non-greasy one that I've found is Mane & Tail Hoofmaker. It's made to put on horses' hooves but it's fabulous on our hands too! If you contact the Mane & Tail company, they'll send you free samples so you can try it for yourself.