CarolC -

Most rubber gloves will hold a lot more grease on the surface than your bare fingers, and if you've been "working on the car" they've probably picked up quite a bit of crud.

For handling a lamp bulb I'd take the gloves off and wash the hands well, then splash enough alcohol on the fingers to make the finger tips "feel dried out." Or get a pair of cotton gloves just for handling the bulb (and wash them after each use and don't use them for anything else.)

Be careful with the alcohol if you happen to be sensitive to it; but most people have enough "callous" on the finger tips to stand fairly liberal washing of the palms and finger tips with it.

Just don't get it into any cracks or crevises in the skin if you don't like "red-hot poker pleasures." If you should happen to "feel a burn" from the alcohol COLD WATER will kill the burn and rinse the alcohol off painlessly. Warm water will just make it burn worse.

John