Do not use any 'household' cleaners or polishes on a guitar!

A lot of them contain silicone. Once you get that stuff on a guitar, its pretty much impossible to remove, which means that any attempt to repair or replace the finish is doomed to failure.

If you take a silicone-contaminated guitar to a shop to have work done on it, you could contaminate the shop, which would then have to replace anything that might have picked up some silicone from your guitar.

Avoid that **** like the plague!


Get some lemon oil and a proper guitar polish. Follow the directions on the bottle. Be happy.

If you use anti-perspirant on your fingers, you will need to clean the fret board more often. Lemon oil, remember? If you're using particularly vile stuff, there is a chance that it will bleach out a dark wood like rosewodd or ebony. It may damage also the finish on the back of the neck. I wouldn't recommend it. Most guitar players have sweaty, greasy, hands by the end of a set. I think its a genetic precursor that always accompanies the 'guitar-playing gene'. Live with it.