Help! With very chapped hands!

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Dottie

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Every time the weather goes cold my hands get very very dry and chapped. They get really sore and cracked to the point that i get little cuts that bleed (eww and ouch!), and it even starts to spread down to my wrist!

I have tryed various creams and potions including E45 cream, The santuary with the little gloves and at the moment i am using The body shop's Coconut hand cream, which works for a while.
I was just wondering if anyone had any miracle cures before i take a trip to the doctors!
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The new range from Vaseline is really good, the hand cream is called " Intensive rescue soothing hand cream" Its made for very dry skin. Its one of the best hand creams ive used!
 
I have exactly the same problem, my knuckles spit open and bleed and weep, i discovered dr hauschka hand cream last year and they were much much better, i also wear latex gloves around the yard to stop my hands getting wet then dry.
 
gloves, and not using nylon haynets, has cured my hands of this... they used to be agony. tbh if you sort out the reasons why your hands are getting wrecked in winter (in my case, dunking, pulling out, carrying around lots of wet nylon haynets, hands continually getting wet, chafed, then not properly dry, unlike in summer) then almost any hand cream will help.
 
Udder cream & rubber gloves overnight and a good coating of that Neutrogena 'Icelandic Fishermans' Handcream during the day. On cold wet days put the handream on followed by a pair of vet gloves with woolly ones over everything.
 
Cotton gloves under rubber when you muck out.....as a bad sufferer of this,I use 'The Body Shop Hemp Hand Protector' and when very bad at night use good old Germoline with a plaster wrapped round the cut.....trust me it's if the splits and cuts have healed over night! Hope that helps as know the misery it causes!
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I put savlon hand barrier cream on before I go to the stables and then I wear gloves for all chores!
That stopped my hands from chapping last winter oh and lots of hand cream before bed!!
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Body shop hemp cream for me too. I also use the butterfly strips to close up the cracks with a plaster over the top. I can sympathise with you its hell when they get bad ***rushes off to touch some wood as mine are okish at the mo ****
 
Do you have a local agricultural merchant nearby?

Farm and Family skin care by Teisen products. I swear by it! It's basically uddermint.
 
For healing up bad splits and cracks I use Lion Ointment. It's an old-fashioned remedy but it is the only thing that has ever worked for me. The steroid creams which I got on prescription didn't even work.
 
Another fan of the Body Shop Hemp Hand Protector here, it's brilliant. I find wearing Latex/rubber gloves at the yard make my hands sweat and this makes the problem worse but last year found a pair of thin (so I could undo buckles etc in them) waterproof skiing gloves which were fleece lined and they saved my hands from getting into a state in the first place.
 
Gosh, something I feel qualified to talk about - there's not much I don't know about lotions and potions! Secret is to keep skin in good condition before it dries out. This means applying hand lotion at least twice a day and more times when weather is bad. you don't need to spend a fortune, Superdrug do some great hand creams. But if you can splash out, Helena Rubenstein 8-hour hand cream is fab as well as Clarins.
But best one is olive oil. Smear it in, put on some plastic gloves and watch TV while it sinks in. Very good for dry hair too.
 
The only cream that I've found to work is Eumo rehydration cream - relieves soreness immediately, absorbs quickly and is non-greasy. Costs around £3.50 from Tesco's etc - couldn't get through winter without it
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My Mum said during the war they used to wee on chillblains, eeewww! Something to do with the salts in it I think.


There's some cream or other which contains urea think it's called Cuticura?
 
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