Hand and nail care

Here's an idea that my mother used to use when she was making maple syrup. Her hands would get horribly cracked from being in the wet outside, so bad they really hurt. She used a cream heavy in vitamin e, putting it on really heavy at night and wore a pair of white cotton gloves over them to help keep the moisture in and the cream from getting all over everything.

When hand cream is used, it develops a dependancy in the skin for more hand cream. I used to be a mucky muck for a major hand cream producer. They intentionally formulated a dependancy into the solution.
Glycerin, found in drug stores, is a good dry out preventative, so is nothing. The stones do not produce dry out agents in sufficient quantity to crack the skin. The stones are usually in a wet medium, and not dry.
I immerse my hands in sodium bisulfate regularly, use powdered polish, and they show very little signs of cracking.
My advice, six the hand cream, and the cracking might go away once the skin heals enough to repair itself.

i don't know if it's the coolant i use or just being wet for lengths of time, but i have found "New Hands" by Neutrogena to be quite effective as a post saw/post grind moisturizer.

fingernails, well, they are just another tool, luckily they grow back. this time of year when the weather is dry, i tend to keep them short anyway. they do make handy little grippers tho!

KD

WOW, if me hands did that I'd have to give up the rocks. May want to try rubber or latex gloves.

robert

There is another product u can get at pharmacies and some department stores. Avon sells them sometimes. It is a liquid glove like hand cream. Spread it on and wait for it to dry. You will be able to stick your hands in chemicals or whatever without worrying about your hands. On top of that, you hand cream when you wash your hands after doing whatever it is you do. The dirt will come off easy, and the hand cream will keep your hands soft. I used to work in a newspaper printing company in Gaylord Michigan, and always had my hands in acid cleaning ink blades. This was before they made rubber gloves mandatory. I never had bad handsd. The stuff reallty worksd.

That's some neat looking stuff there Lcars, very interesting.

robert

Wow, I remember my father using the liquid glove stuff. He also used Prell shampoo for getting the grease off his hands. That was some nasty shampoo.

My finger is now cracked. The only diff in my life is the rocks. Time for gloves.