My wife is allergic to them, and she gets the same reaction. She has to wear them for work. Some of the untreated gloves dont bother her though. The reaction goes away quickly, and doesnt seem to bother her too much. I'd suspect that the glove reaction is less risk than the epoxy, but who knows? Maybe we'll all get cancer of the fingernails... I guess it the dishwashing gloves I use, not the oven cleaning. They are yellow and cost about $1.00 a pair. I can clean and reuse them once or twice, so the cost is about the same as latex but they are much stronger.

> Anyone else out there find that they're allergic to the standard
> disposable gloves? I started out with the standard powdered latex gloves,
> with which the skin on my hands broke out in hundreds of pin-head sized
> blisters that itched like crazy. I then tried latex non-powdered,
> non-latex powdered, and non-latex non-powdered, and had repeated
> outbreaks. The non-latex non-powdered worked the best, but I can still
> break out if I wear them for longer than a half hour or so. So eventually
> I went glove-free halfway through my boat-building and tried to be as
> careful as possible. I figured I would chance the reaction to epoxy rather
> than get a guaranteed reaction from the gloves.

> Anyone wanna buy some gloves? I've got latex, I've got powdered.......:)