I’ve spent the past few months working almost exclusively in the machine shop at work, which leads to a lot of hand-washing throughout the day with aggressive soaps like Lava and TMT Borax.
Wife and I also cook a ton of food on the weekends, which leads to even more handwashing. We just finished cooking half a dozen meals of chili (gonna freeze half of it), and my hands are seriously dried out. From time to time the skin at the left/right ends of my fingernails cracks and then takes a good week to heal, painfully recracking several times along the way. Getting tired of it.
I have some hand lotion at work and at home, nothing special.
I’m looking for something special.
What’s the best lotion you can recommend?
On the news a few weeks ago they mentioned a lotion that contains an ingredient that actually stimulates your skin to produce more of its own oils. Anyone heard of this, or know what brand I should be looking for?
Lanolin- best stuff out there for hands. Put it on at night, wake up happy as can be! It’s super sticky but man does it work! Also works great for chapped lips.
Day - Hemp Hand Protector bought at the Body Shop. Lovely, lovely. It’s cheaper at the store than on amazon. Usually sold at malls.
I know how you feel. In the winter, my skin gets so dry from the cold weather that it cracks and bleeds and hand washing makes it worse! I recently started working with Eucerin, which has introduced me to their extremely dry skin lotions. Their new Professional Repair lotion is made with clinically proven moisturizers: ceramide-3, skin’s own moisturizers and gluco-glycerol to help heal very dry skin. It feels great too!
Ugh. I hate how winter dryness affects my hands. The best OTC solution I’ve found is Neutrogena Original Hand Cream. I apply it every night before bed, and rub the excess onto my neck and face. It is a little greasy, but smells fantastic.
For those painful splits at the corner of my nail, I dab on a bit of Bag Balm, cover it with a bandaid, and try to keep that hand away from water as much as possible.
Buy a couple of geese and spend an afternoon butchering them, rendering their fat, and generally breaking them down.
I swear to God, after I did that one dry winter day, my hands were softer and more moist than they’d been since I were born. Plus, at the end, you get to eat goose!
For starters, get Snap-On medicated hand cleaner. World of difference between it and the ones you’ve been using – this will improve your skin condition, not worsen it. Use it at home as well.
I am a dedicated hand washer with chronically dry skin, so my hands are often a mess. I’m also not good about putting lotion on my hands because I hate the greasy feeling.
I just picked up some Curel Hand & Cuticle Therapy lotion on a trip out of town and I really like it. I was surprised at how quickly it restored the skin on my hands, and it’s not greasy. I’ll likely purchase it again in the future.
One is Caren Hand Treatment, picked up in a hospital gift shop. Amazing stuff. Not easy to find in stores, so I order it online. It comes in several fragrances, but none are what I’d call “perfumey”.
Another good one is Medline Remedy Skin Repair. They used it in the nursing facility on my father’s peeling, extremely dry skin. It works both to repair and maintain cracked, dry skin. I also order it on Amazon.
