Got my very dirty TOM pf squeaky clean and the first patch of wax is currently drying. Didn't even need Novus to clean it, just rubbing alcohol and a microfiber cloth.
It scrubbed the dirt off very well, with no ill effects.
It seems it also scrubbed a layer or two of skin off my fingers.
I guess the moral of the story is to wear gloves when working with microfibers.
Never had an issue before, it's just a cloth. And it shouldn't be "scrubbing" your fingers if you're holding the rag, unless you're somehow doing it wrong/holding it wrong. Perhaps it was the rubbing alcohol? Hmm...
Quoted from EvanDickson:Didn't even need Novus to clean it, just rubbing alcohol and a microfiber cloth.
I think you're warning people about the wrong half of this equation....
Quoted from andre060:I think you're warning people about the wrong half of this equation....
I agree.
Although, towels can sometimes be pretty raunchy 
Yeah, I bet this is more due to the alcohol than the cloth.
Your point is still valid though. I was using some Brasso yesterday, washed my hands, and later touched my eye. It felt tingly for 15 minutes.
I pretty much always wear nitrile gloves when working on pins while cleaning, soldering, or working with any sort of chemicals/substances.
Quoted from PanaPinResto:Why use a microfiber cloth, your hands are soft as cotton.
Not any more
Quoted from EvanDickson:Huh. I never would have guessed the issue was the alcohol.
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Wear gloves when working with any kind of chemical, including household chemicals.
The packs of nitrile gloves at harbor freight are cheap enough to make this not an issue.
Yeaaaaaaaaah. I have been using microfiber towels daily in auto detailing for over 20 years and have never lost skin lol. I have also never lost skin using Isopropyl alcohol, even at it's highest available percentage, now if it's Denatured Alcohol that would be a different story. That stuff is used for fuel and I would never handle it barehanded.
Some people are susceptible to adverse reactions.
I used acetone servicing printers and that was horrid skin peeling quickly stopped using that though didn't effect my work colleagues.
They soaked the rag in the stuff.
I was the first one to start using gloves.
when using alcohol I can feel the oils (skin) getting stripped away.
Quoted from AUKraut:Unless you have a rare allergy to cotton I can pretty much guarantee that your skin reaction was due to the Alcohol and not the Microfiber cloth. Do you also break out when using a towel after you bathe/shower?? If not, it's the chemical you used, the alcohol, that caused the reaction on your fingers.
That would be one hell of a rare cotton allergy since microfiber is polyester.
Quoted from Marvin:That would be one hell of a rare cotton allergy since microfiber is polyester.
....Damn, I stand corrected. I could have sworn that MF cloths were a cotton derivative.......never mind!!
Ya sound like a drunk frat boy...
I didn't think it could be the alcohols fault, 
it's never the alcohols fault.
I usually don't need sandpaper I just use my dried up hands.
Quoted from PanaPinResto:Why use a microfiber cloth, your hands are soft as cotton.
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