@pakopako@yakkoTDI
SWMBO bought me heated gloves for Christmas, but I haven’t tried them yet.
She bought the from The Sharper Image.
They’re thin, so that I can wear them under work gloves.
I’ll review them once I get a chance to try them out.
@LaserEyes legit question: what about your cuticles?
When I do warehouse work without gloves, my cuticles peel back (and itch). Lotion really doesn’t fix this (bandages and gloves do, but I can’t always wear them).
@pakopako I actually just started using my various cuticle oil things this week because they’ve started bothering me. I don’t really know if it will help. And I’ll probably forget to keep up with it.
I made a diy cuticle oil mix with vitamin E oil and some other oils I can’t remember anymore. Also have a stick, I think it’s Sally Hanson, it looks like pink lip balm.
Hoping it will help because I’ve been crocheting and knitting a ton lately and my fingers are getting so dry and rough because of it.
@LaserEyes although I don’t know the extent of the dryness of your hands, if they’re as bad as you say they are, then I can certainly relate. My hands crack every winter or during dry months. Crack along the knuckles and all around the back of my hands and in some cases, they begin to bleed and are easily cut because of their dryness. It’s happened for as long as I can remember. Lotions and other oils never seemed to work no matter how much I lathered on. That, and I never liked the greasy residue it left on my hands.
Have you tried Working Hands cream? I came across it back when I was, well, working with my hands on the daily as an automotive technician. Not only did using the cream help heal many of the cuts I received as a result of my work, but also relieved the dryness and sealed up cracks seemingly overnight.
Although my mechanic days are behind me now, I still use this hand cream during the winter months and it’s yet to fail me. I picked up a bottle the other day instead of the little jar they normally sell. Feels more like lotion than hand cream, but the effects or similar and it doesn’t leave you hands looking like you came on the loosing end of a Nickelodeon slime show.
@carbonviper@LaserEyes
My dad used to get those oh so sore dry cracked hands in the winter. He’d drench his hands in whatever lotion or oils he was using at the time and then sleep with a pair of white cotton socks over them. It wasn’t an overnight fix (ha ha, ) but it definitely helped! Good luck!
@LaserEyes
Avoid soap and water as much as possible.
If you must get them wet, don’t dry them until you have finished whatever wet work you have to do before drying them, and then just blot them dry and moisturize over the dampness.
We keep a Cerave lotion pump by our kitchen sink for this purpose.
Counterintuitively, alcohol-based hand sanitizers are almost always kinder than soap and water, unless your hands are visibly soiled.
YMMV
@werehatrack
Although, I generally agree, I remembered a blast from the distant past and ordered some Peanut Brittle from See’s Candy, and it was awesome as I remembered.
We used to get gift boxes of it on each floor,/unit of the hospital where I worked in the early 2000’s, and I grazed on it at every opportunity back then, because it was irresistible.
Fast forward 20 years later and it’s just as good as I remembered.
It’s made simply, but because they put baking soda in it, it’s got a very light crunch and slightly salty, and not overly sweet, but extremely delicious.
Sorry, I’m hungry for some now.
@tweezak lol they totally should. One time at cvs they asked if I wanted a free gift bag that they were giving for a promotion, and they said how many do you want, because no one wanted them. It was coupons, bottle of astroglide, samples of other types of astroglide. I should have taken more than one.
@tweezak This is a quoted from Astroglide, it’s the cutest…
It’s beginning to look a lot like you’re getting’ some…with Astroglide Female Lubricants. Astroglide® Female Lubricant sleighs. Bring good tidings and glidings this season.
@heartny@Kyeh The foot stuff helped keep my feet okay again after having a cracked heel. I have Vaseline but it’s in a tub stored away with my hair dying stuff (where you would use the Vaseline as a barrier for the dye on your skin). I should really just get a second tub.
As someone that works at a job where I either wash or sanitize my hands dozens of times a shift, I have had lots of luck with this stuff.
Particularly like that it doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy.
I keep them in my crack where it is nice and humid.
@yakkoTDI legitimate strategy
I just don’t expose my hands to cold air (which usually means pockets or retracting them up my sleeves).
@pakopako @yakkoTDI
SWMBO bought me heated gloves for Christmas, but I haven’t tried them yet.
She bought the from The Sharper Image.
They’re thin, so that I can wear them under work gloves.
I’ll review them once I get a chance to try them out.
I live where that’s not a huge problem.
Look, I use lotion, moisturizing soap, hand cream, and I still end up with dry skin and knuckles cracking from it. Nothing seems to help.
@LaserEyes legit question: what about your cuticles?
When I do warehouse work without gloves, my cuticles peel back (and itch). Lotion really doesn’t fix this (bandages and gloves do, but I can’t always wear them).
@pakopako I actually just started using my various cuticle oil things this week because they’ve started bothering me. I don’t really know if it will help. And I’ll probably forget to keep up with it.
I made a diy cuticle oil mix with vitamin E oil and some other oils I can’t remember anymore. Also have a stick, I think it’s Sally Hanson, it looks like pink lip balm.
Hoping it will help because I’ve been crocheting and knitting a ton lately and my fingers are getting so dry and rough because of it.
@LaserEyes @pakopako Some of my warehouse co-workers trim their cuticles way down.
Seeing somebody trim them is also how I found out that cuticles exist, at age 33. (I’ve never had visible cuticles.)
@LaserEyes Vaseline on your cuticles may help
@LaserEyes although I don’t know the extent of the dryness of your hands, if they’re as bad as you say they are, then I can certainly relate. My hands crack every winter or during dry months. Crack along the knuckles and all around the back of my hands and in some cases, they begin to bleed and are easily cut because of their dryness. It’s happened for as long as I can remember. Lotions and other oils never seemed to work no matter how much I lathered on. That, and I never liked the greasy residue it left on my hands.
Have you tried Working Hands cream? I came across it back when I was, well, working with my hands on the daily as an automotive technician. Not only did using the cream help heal many of the cuts I received as a result of my work, but also relieved the dryness and sealed up cracks seemingly overnight.
Although my mechanic days are behind me now, I still use this hand cream during the winter months and it’s yet to fail me. I picked up a bottle the other day instead of the little jar they normally sell. Feels more like lotion than hand cream, but the effects or similar and it doesn’t leave you hands looking like you came on the loosing end of a Nickelodeon slime show.
@carbonviper @LaserEyes
) but it definitely helped! Good luck!
My dad used to get those oh so sore dry cracked hands in the winter. He’d drench his hands in whatever lotion or oils he was using at the time and then sleep with a pair of white cotton socks over them. It wasn’t an overnight fix (ha ha,
@LaserEyes
Avoid soap and water as much as possible.
If you must get them wet, don’t dry them until you have finished whatever wet work you have to do before drying them, and then just blot them dry and moisturize over the dampness.
We keep a Cerave lotion pump by our kitchen sink for this purpose.
Counterintuitively, alcohol-based hand sanitizers are almost always kinder than soap and water, unless your hands are visibly soiled.
YMMV
Brittle doesn’t just grow, you have to make it. Honestly, though, that stuff always seemed kind of pointless to me.
@werehatrack
Although, I generally agree, I remembered a blast from the distant past and ordered some Peanut Brittle from See’s Candy, and it was awesome as I remembered.
We used to get gift boxes of it on each floor,/unit of the hospital where I worked in the early 2000’s, and I grazed on it at every opportunity back then, because it was irresistible.
Fast forward 20 years later and it’s just as good as I remembered.
It’s made simply, but because they put baking soda in it, it’s got a very light crunch and slightly salty, and not overly sweet, but extremely delicious.
Sorry, I’m hungry for some now.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
Speaking of dry hands, has meh ever sold Astroglide?
Asking for a friend.
@tweezak lol they totally should. One time at cvs they asked if I wanted a free gift bag that they were giving for a promotion, and they said how many do you want, because no one wanted them. It was coupons, bottle of astroglide, samples of other types of astroglide. I should have taken more than one.
@tweezak I know they’ve sold sex toys before!
@tweezak This is a quoted from Astroglide, it’s the cutest…
It’s beginning to look a lot like you’re getting’ some…with Astroglide Female Lubricants. Astroglide® Female Lubricant sleighs. Bring good tidings and glidings this season.
The blood of my enemies
Humidifiers!
I swear by this stuff when my hands get really bad.
@heartny I like the foot version even better, even for hands - it’s a little less waxy.
@heartny @Kyeh
I swear by Kiehls, by the barrels!
@heartny @Kyeh
This season I added good ole Vaseline to my arsenal, something I never imagined myself doing.
@heartny @Kyeh The foot stuff helped keep my feet okay again after having a cracked heel. I have Vaseline but it’s in a tub stored away with my hair dying stuff (where you would use the Vaseline as a barrier for the dye on your skin). I should really just get a second tub.
@heartny
Yes, yes, yes!
castor oil
I avoid dipping them in liquid nitrogen.
I usually use lotion on my hands, but on the rest of my body, I use lotion bars I make. They’re easier to use and a lot less messy.
@lisagd what are these lotion bars of which you speak?
/image curious
@lisagd @ybmuG
YES PLEASE, I’m curious too!
Goat milk soap.
/showme hands growing brittle
@mediocrebot i think these might be a little past hand cream
I use a little of all the main choices. I especially like Eucerin!
In this region, “brittle” grows around peanuts. Not hands.
/image peanut brittle
@f00l I have yet to enounter brittle that is not best avoided.
@werehatrack
Try jalapeño brittle.
@f00l <mode=“bartleby”> I should prefer not to.</mode>
@werehatrack
Poor you!
It’s cool I’ll eat your share. No one will even know.
/image “jalapeño peanut brittle” 2
As someone that works at a job where I either wash or sanitize my hands dozens of times a shift, I have had lots of luck with this stuff.
Particularly like that it doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy.