Cleaning Fretboard

I get patches of grey on my fretboard, which im guessing is skin, and also i get bits of fluff and a build up on gammy stuff either side of the mettle strips on the frets. I have treid taking off my strings and cleaning it with water and a bit of soap in it and tried to scrub the mettle bits with an old tooth brush to get rid of the bits there. But to no prevail :( There is still bits either side of the mettle bits, for a while the grey patches of skin went but they soon built up again.

Does anybody have a technique that works well or know anything you can use on your fret board that wont discolour the wood or anything?

DON'T USE WATER!!!!!

Go to your local shop - they should have some stuff for cleaning your fretboard.

Don't use water, it's the devil.

D.

u can use enough water to make the cloth a bit damp, thats all. water will ruin the guitar. try nepthane....lighter fluid basically, ask around about that

Citric oil! NO WATER!! water will get inside the pores of the wood and then the wood will start to expand/stretch/shrink/whatever depending on the roomtemperature. Citric oils and other guitar polishes will close those pores and seal the wood.

So what do you lot use to clean the fretboard? By the way i only used a damp cloth and dried the fret straight away so it didn't feck up the wood...Can you recommend a product that works well so i can buy it off the internet, i can be arsed to go to the shop :P