ORIGINAL: blw
I once needed to wash my hands after doing something on my truck. Couldn't think of anything good, so I used that gritty, powdered dishwasher soap. My hands were so dried out that I had to use hand lotion every half hour for weeks.
I too have used the powdered dishwasher soap to clean oil and grime from my hands, but afterwords used some regular hand soap to clean any of the dish soap off of my hands, use something with moisturizers.. No porblems for me!!
Craig.