Horrible winter hands!

I keep a box of latex type gloves in my car, and pop a pair on whenever at the yard (underneath normal gloves in winter) as the ingrained dirt was embarrassing!

They help against the chapping somewhat too. Then vaseline at night when I remember..
 
Mine are the same so I took myself off to the nail bar and had gel nails done £15 they are great will last me 3 weeks (we will have to see) !!!
 
I get Epaderm Emulsifying Ointment (500g) on repeat prescription from my GP. As prescriptions in Scotland are free, it sure beats paying £££££s on Palmer's and Norwegian Formula which I have also used effectively. Epaderm doesn't absorb quickly but I find it acts as a good barrier and applying it little and often, especially overnight, really does help. I also use it on my feet when they start to crack too. I guess it doesn't take much to spot a horsey person, just look at the hands!;)
 
Got a great tip from my manicurist (my hands were like sandpaper) to use hand or foot cream designed for diabetics. It contains urea (the higher the urea content the better the results) which absolutely works. I now use Flexitol (you can buy it on line) really cheap and soooo effective. Hands and feet now like baby soft no matter how much I abused them. Nothing better. I used to use EA eight hour cream, but a bit sticky for hands and didn't work nearly as well.
 
Sorry to drag up an old thread but does anyone have any recommendations for ways to deodorize hands? I use gloves as much as possible but my hands have a distinct horse urine niff that I cannot seem to shift. I scrub and rinse in lemon juice but wondered what other do ?
 
I tend to wear warm gloves with a pair of marigolds over the top! Keeps hands dry as well as keeping dirt well and truly off-the material on gloves always managed to let some type of dirt through!
 
Beatrice5 said:
Sorry to drag up an old thread but does anyone have any recommendations for ways to deodorize hands? I use gloves as much as possible but my hands have a distinct horse urine niff that I cannot seem to shift. I scrub and rinse in lemon juice but wondered what other do ?
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Dunno if it works for horse pee, but it certainly does for things like garlic or onions - wash your hands in COLD water with, wait for it, A TEASPOON! Don't use your best silver, just any plain old stainless steel cutlery. My brother was a chef and gave me this tip, it really does work.
 
mix olive oil, lemon juice and granulated sugar into a paste and massage hands together with it - goes a disgusting colour but when you wash it off with warm water and liquid soap it leaves your hands lovely and clean, soft and smooth. Also find body shop hemp foot softener very good. - only problem with that is my lurcher licks it all off given half a chance!!
 
I swear by Scholl cracked heel cream for helping repair cracked hands, I suffer terribly with splits in my hands that often bleed and are incredibly painful. I apply the heel cream and once repaired, I moisturise wil Palms cocoa butter. They've been the best ever this year (though it helps that my 3yo is wintering off!)
 
O'Keeffe`s Working hands .... AMAZING stuff ... I asked on here what to try a couple of years ago, I had tried everything else on this thread to no avail, and it had all left my hands greasy too (which I hate), but they were still cracked and sore (especially the finger splits) and then I bought some O`Keeffe`s and what a difference !!!! The hubby and Father in Law both work outdoors and their hands were really bad too, got them a tub of it each and they haven`t looked back either. Like Ronseal, it does exactly what it says on the tin lol
 
trick is to have lots of gloves and lots of handcream.

swap gloves as soon as one pair gets damp.

put hand cream on every time you pass a bottle, so have some in tack room, wash box, car, handbag, bathroom, kitchen, at work etc.

mine are not too bad. I wear gloves 99% of the time and probably apply hand cream 6/7 times a day. put a really thick layer on before bed and gloves over the top.
 
I just use any fat or oil, sudocreme, leather balsam, olive oil, lard or anything and wear rubber/disposible gloves after applying. Doesn't matter what product you use, frequency of application is more important.
 
Mine have been fine this year - and I've just figured out why! I'm lathering handfuls of pig oil onto Alfs legs to prevent mudfever every couple of days. He's got lovely healthy legs, and I have lovely healthy hands!
 
Victoria25 said:
Lol, I was just looking at mine this morning thinking eughhh …. For me it the inside of my thumb and the inside of the next finger … constantly cracked skin and look like ive not washed in months … wear gloves as much as possible but they look OLD!!! :(
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OMG! lol.. you just described my hands or as they used to be.. especially my right index finger, it was very rough, scaly and what not, I tried several hands creams but they did little if anything and I had to keep reapplying them all day long as none of em seem to be resistant at all a friend of mine gave me a sample of sunnyqnyc balm's sample and it worked like a charm. not sure what's in it that worked so quickly, may be the mink oil but it has many ingredients. It's expensive but it works, at least worked for me.
 
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