Really dry hands

wmpdd3

Has anyone got a solution to really dry hands. I don't have exemea (sorry bad spelling), but I have deep ridged beside my nails and the skin is a tough as nails!
Not so good to look at.
I have tried everything, normal hand creams do nothing even Neutreogena.

The best I have found is a cuticle oil and urea cream.

Any suggestions?

becah

have you tried olive oil? when mine get really dry, I soak them in olive oil and let it soak in for aboult half an hour if i'm sitting at home doing nothing. i also constantly keep a tube of e45 in my bag, or any other handcream, and try to put it on my hands after washing.

DubMedic

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Has anyone got a solution to really dry hands. I don't have exemea (sorry bad spelling), but I have deep ridged beside my nails and the skin is a tough as nails!
Not so good to look at.
I have tried everything, normal hand creams do nothing even Neutreogena.

The best I have found is a cuticle oil and urea cream.

Any suggestions?

i have a similar condition to you
i find i get it because i wash my hands alot under cold water
maybe you do same ??
my hands have the look similar to someone who is old and has worked on a farm all their life and im only young !! and have never touched a farm tool in my life
the solution im working on at the moment is i have a small bottle of alcohol solution ( its made for the healthcare side of employment ) and it clips onto your belt ... it comes in a small 100ml bottle with a squirty pressy ( best way to describe it sorry ) top, and it will save washing hands as the alcohol will kill most germs present , i find it also alot easier on my skin ( i hate the smells of moisturiser uggh ).
HTH

445279.ie

I use Elizabeth Arden 8 hour handcream which I find very good. Put it on before going to bed and your hands will be lovely and soft the next morning.

Redzer7

Vaseline Intensive Care For Hands And Face, Should Be In A Yellow Bottle

Lobelia Overhill

Yes To Carrots Hand and Elbow Cream, sorted my dry hands out

wmpdd3

Wow fair play to ye all for quick reply.

Been using carrex gel as mentioned for about a year.
Have tried eight hour, vaseline, olive oil and betnavet and diprazone which are skin steriods.

I often use plasters or spray on elastiplast because it's so sore to let my hands touch anything. Worst thing is I can't knit when there really sore.....

http://www.giab.co.uk/index.php

Thinking of this, anybody heard of this?

Pinky Pixie

The body shop do a hemp hand protector I swear by it:). The lip balm is also really good but it tastes funny so I only use it when I really need too

Ruthee

Get a pair of cotten gloves from the chemist.they are only a couple of quid. At bedtime but your hand cream on and then wear the gloves overnight. It helps the moisturiser to sink in better... bit of a passion killer, but at least you'll have soft hands in the morning!!

fonpokno

My dad works in the garden a lot so his hands get really dry and rough. What he does is scrubs off the rough skin with a mix of almond oil and sugar. The almond oil softens the skin as he goes anyway. Then he lashes on moisturiser every night. He usually uses aqueous cream, e45 or just vaseline. Works really well for him.

I have really dry skin on my arms and what I do is moisturise them straight out of the shower. The moisturiser seems to work better if my skin is either damp or only just patted dry.

Kablamo!

One I found for when my hands are super dry (sometimes they crack when I flex them) was rubber gloves and vaseline. Not the cream, but the petroleum jelly. Put it on, throw the gloves on, go to sleep. Feels horrible though!

Redpunto

The best hand creams ive come accross are the elizabeth arden 8 hour hand cream and nivea SOS hand cream (ive only ever seen this one in Superdrug)

Madame Razz

La Roche Posay do a fantastic hand cream called 'Xerand'

My ex had hands like yours OP and it sorted them right out.

ms momo

I also used to suffer from really dry hands, due mainly to lots of handwashing during the day (I work in a hospital) to the extent that my hands used to crack and bleed across my knuckles! I found using 8hour cream as another poster said with the cotton gloves at night to be the best temporary solution. However - somebody suggested that I take an omega 3 and omega 6 supplement to improve the quality of my skin from the inside out and honestly I haven't looked back since! I take the supplement every day and just pop on a bit of e45 twice a day and no more cracked skin on my hands and the dry areas on my elbows and upper arms have improved too!
Good luck - its really so sore to have such dry hands and I never found creams to be a solution as I generally had to wash them straight off.

bills

Try the one from lush- it really works. I think there's two but try the more intensive one.

JackieRyan

One my grandmother gave me make some porridge let it go really cold and use this to wash your hands instead of soap ,i found after a week it really worked ,

Orlee

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Has anyone got a solution to really dry hands. I don't have exemea (sorry bad spelling), but I have deep ridged beside my nails and the skin is a tough as nails!
Not so good to look at.
I have tried everything, normal hand creams do nothing even Neutreogena.

The best I have found is a cuticle oil and urea cream.

Any suggestions?

Go for Eucerin - It's by far the best cream out there and not rediculously expensive

It's sold in Boots but you can still get it in lots of other chemists.

It's 5% urea (yuck I know!) and its unbelievably good! It's especially made for excema/psoriasis

They have a whole range from body lotion and hand cream to shower cream!

Honestly .... you'll see the difference in no time at all!

Taltos

I have excema (spelling no clue ) quite badly on my fingers and psorisis (flares rarely).

have not found trigger yet.

but E45 all the way.
At one point steroids was needed then a purified olive oil from the chemist - but 99.9% of the time (all) using E45.

kerash

Pinky Pixie wrote: »

The body shop do a hemp hand protector I swear by it:). The lip balm is also really good but it tastes funny so I only use it when I really need too

+1 the Hemp cream, my Grandmother has the worst dry hands I have ever seen, (she puts her hands in soap power, bleach, goes gardening etc.) and they are very very dry, scaly and cracked and hacked to bits:eek:
The Hemp cream is the only thing that works for her.
I have eczema myself with flares up if I use washing up liquid on my hands but the hemp cream helps and doesn't irritate me. I just use it as a cure all now!! Best of luck.

wmpdd3

ms momo wrote: »

I also used to suffer from really dry hands, due mainly to lots of handwashing during the day (I work in a hospital) to the extent that my hands used to crack and bleed across my knuckles! I found using 8hour cream as another poster said with the cotton gloves at night to be the best temporary solution. However - somebody suggested that I take an omega 3 and omega 6 supplement to improve the quality of my skin from the inside out and honestly I haven't looked back since! I take the supplement every day and just pop on a bit of e45 twice a day and no more cracked skin on my hands and the dry areas on my elbows and upper arms have improved too!
Good luck - its really so sore to have such dry hands and I never found creams to be a solution as I generally had to wash them straight off.

You might have cracked it with the omega 3 and 6, used to eat alot of fish until last year that's about when my hands got really bad.

For a short term solution a urea cream is def.the best used with the gloves. Garnier have a new one that's a bit cheaper than Eucerin but the minute I stop using it, I'm back to square 1.

Great reports from Hemp, I'll try that too.

Also it was a bit better when I got back from my hols last May. Could the lack of sun have anything to do with it.

I'll try the omega pills and let you all know!