Yeah TB I don't know how to stress this enough.
My comment about not using latex gloves was learn't from painful experience when I was giving a set of keg poppets a good seeing to with some warmed up caustic a while back (they are out of realy old firestone kegs and are now made from unobtanium). I normally wear the big elbow length gloves I was suggesting but didn't have enough dexterity to hold the poppets and scrub at them so decided to put a pair of the disposable latext gloves on instead. Bad Bad move after about 10 minutes my hands started to feel like they were burning and all greasy/sweaty inside the gloves. I took them off (the latex gloves fell apart) and my hands had the soapy feeling which no amount of water seemed to be able to wash off as the caustic was in fact dissolving me
it had even started to soften up my fingernails.
After about an hour of running my hands under cold water the burning had subsided to the point where I didn't think I needed to drive myself to the hospital. My hands were not the same for about a month later.
Lesson learnt even more respect is given now.