Putting on gloves

This might be a kind of stupid question but I can't seem to get the disposable gloves I bought onto my hands they always rip. I don't think that they are way too small. Any advice on how to put them on?

The gloves are too small, your hands are not dry or you are pulling them on too fast.

Check the size listed on the box. Then buy a box in a larger size.

This might be a kind of stupid question but I can't seem to get the disposable gloves I bought onto my hands they always rip. I don't think that they are way too small. Any advice on how to put them on?

No, not stupid, just perhaps less experience than some. I use these same regular nonsterile latex gloves for many things, including not only sexual and health applications but also messy or infectious chores like cleaning cat boxes, occasionally cleaning the cats as well(!), trash removal, household cleaning, etc., so have gone through thousands of them. "Latex gloves" or "rubber gloves" bought in 50-100 to a box can be wildly variable in their quality and rip characteristics. Mine are usually from the internet where I can buy repeat orders of what's worked well before. Locally, I discovered that WalMart and Target at least so far sell store brands of VERY poor quality, ripping easily just putting them on, often right around the base near your wrist, sometimes 20-30% per box or more. I'm afraid I can't list any names of good solid quality non-ripping gloves I've used, but when I see the boxes next I'll post them.

So first make sure your gloves are decent quality, then follow the others' advice on having dry hands, proper sizing, not pulling them on too fast or vigorously, etc.

More data and/or advice when I get the brand names to post.

BTW, vinyl or nitrile gloves seem much more sturdy than rubber, but I dislike and use very few of them, but they also seem much less prone to rip.

Eric

Adding to my glove post below, two items. 1) CareMates® gloves from the Internet worked quite well but my last box is dated 2014. 2) I just found two boxes from WalMart of NITRILE (blue) Equate® brand and VINYL Great Value brand, not latex or rubber, and their quality seems very good. Earlier I was referring to the WalMart or Target brands only in latex.

Eric

Small addendum to my glove posts below. Just now I put in a butt plug with water based lube using latex gloves from WalMart, actual brand name "Great Value." I mentioned them earlier. Now this box is probably over a year or two old, but even so, I just wasted multiple gloves simply trying to put them on. If that rate continued, probably 50% or more of the gloves were defective and ripped putting them on. They tend to rip down near the wrist near the rolled edge at the entrance to the glove. This has happened many times before so I stopped buying them unless nothing else was available.

So, if you're buying Big Box Store house brand latex gloves, like from Walmart or Target or perhaps others, I'd recommend buying only one box and trying them on your hands or your partner's hands or whoever will use them. If you have better results than I do, more power to you, but after only one test box you can throw them away or buy more as you see fit.

Good luck.

Eric

This is typically due to sizing, or too thin/too cheap of quality gloves. I've run into this with REALLY cheap latex, or very very thin nitrile. Almost never with the good, proper-fit surgical, exam, or high-risk exam gloves I like. And certainly NOT with the hazmat butyl, or rubber electrical ones!

I have fairly large hands and may fit me just fine.

Water

Definitely need better quality and larger ones it sounds like.