It is citrus season and for days now you have begun to see the fruit shops overflowing with oranges, lemons, grapefruits and tangerines. This last fruit can cause mixed feelings, not so much because of its flavor, but because of the smell it gives off when peeled, since it tends to remain in our hands for hours, even after washing them.
Although the smell of tangerine is not necessarily unpleasant, it can be annoying for some people due to its persistence. This is because the skin of this fruit contains limonene, an essential substance present in several citrus fruits and which gives them their characteristic smell. When peeling a tangerine, small drops of oil from the peel shoot out and stick to our skin, making it smell like this fruit for a long time.
If you want to continue enjoying tangerines without their smell sticking to your hands, here are some tricks to solve this situation, harmless for some, but quite annoying for others.
