Hands like cardboard

[Dave Martin]

Its the cold weather that causes your symptoms. Try rubbing generous amounts of vaseline onto your hands at night and sleep in the polythene garage forecourt gloves for a few nights.

[Mark Bolam]

'Snowfire'

[shanks]

+1 for the udder cream. Its amazing stuff.

 

 

YOu do a manual job.....you want tough hands, surely????????

If you really do want hand cream then udder cream for cattle is the best, and "b natural skincare" products made from beeswax are also very good.

[MikeTM150]

+1 for the udder cream. Its amazing stuff.

 

Under mint (similar stuff but very minty!!!!) is good for aching joints and muscles, u stink like trebor extra stronrg mints and u don't wanna leave a bit on ur hands then have a pee cuz it'll make ur eyes water and things tingle where they've never tingled before!!!!

[WorcsWuss]

'Snowfire'

 

Another vote for Snowfire, I always keep a tube of it with me at this time of year, seems to heal splits, cracks and sores almost overnight, nice 'manly' smell too... DEFINITELY worth a try, keep it in your pocket, it's like a fat lip salve stick... I get terrible dermatitis / psoriasis or whatever it is on my right hand sometimes... Snowfire is the only thing I found which touches it, tried nappy creams, the B natural stuff, barrier creams, everything. Snowfire is the stuff, no contest. I use it on the baby's sore bits too now!

 

My only quibble is, being designed 'for blokes', whose idea was it to have to push the stick out the tube with your finger? I have little hands by comparison to most Scandinavian fisherman and even I have to use my little finger, or a biro...!

Edited December 15, 2011 by WorcsWuss

[Grandad]

"Glove fulla vaseline?, disgusting..." Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck.

Seriously, udder cream is great, it's pure lanolin you know...

[predator]

cheers thank for all the advice etc my sister has e45 cream and has offered me a tub full

but fancy the snowfire could you tell me where to buy it as i,ve never seen it advertised and i do get dermatitis wet leaky itchy skin on the backs of my finders all caused by wearing rubber gloves in the past so can only use the builder rubber grippy ones for short periods so with the cols weather and my first time mauling with logs alot etc my hands are suffering now rough and very dry splitting on the tips too and can will get very sore for me and start bleeding etc

[landylass2a]

Udder cream, dont confuse it with udder mint:thumbdown:

This one is very good, and it is anti bacterial, any ag merchants or horsey place sells it:thumbup1: works as a barrier cream, helps stop any secondary infection:thumbup1:

[White Noise]

I used to get cracked skin and my hands were always in a mess . Someone told me to rub Surgical spirit with castor oil into my hands . Well after your cuts have healed anyway . Since using this cheap product my hands have been a lot tougher and at £1.40 a bottle from the discount shops its a winner . I rub this stuff on Mon / Fri after work but don't use it on weekends .

[Matthew Storrs]

my hands feel like gorrilas not hairy tho, be proud of it, shows you work for a living!