Gasoline and skin - how dangerous?

That kind of limited exposure shouldn’t hurt too bad. It’s more of the constant exposure that’s bad.

Did you use soap? Gasoline is kind of oily, so soap would help get it off better. Sounds like a good thing to google.

You should be perfectly fine. I’ve washed my hands in gasoline quite a few times. No damage.

Your natural oils in your skin should protect you from intermittent exposures such as spills. Most of the nasty volatiles evaporated in the first 5–10 minutes and left the whiffy gas smell on your skin. Gas is made of oil and that in itself is not so bad. It is the hydrocarbons that did evaporate quickly that you would ever be concerned with and again your exposure was short lived.

If you do have a rash of any kind, either research the MSDS for gasoline and or seek medical attention.

It depends on your skin, but gasoline is relatively mild anyways, so you should be fine. As @WillWorkForChocolate says, some of us use it to wash our hands. My skin is rather oily, so my skin is insensitive enough to chemicals that I have been known to not notice small splashes of sulfuric acid.

If you were sensitive enough for your little exposure to be an issue, you would’ve noticed by now.

It’s really a bad deal near open flames so definitely avoid that until you scrub it off.

16 hours later, absolutely no ill effects, thank you all for answering.