Rough Hands

OpenEnded

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I had a look and it seemed the best option.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a product for my hands. They are very rough at the top of the palm(almost like calluses). It stems from rubbing my hands together(which I normally do out of excitement for something or to keep warm) which I do a few times a day and have been doing for years.

Any products in particular anyone could recommend?

Michellenman

Mix some sugar in to some moisturiser and rub in to your hands for a good while concentrating on the areas with the rough skin. Wash this off and then before you go to bed cover your hands in moisturiser again. Stick a pair of gloves on over the thickly layered moisturiser and head off to sleep. Do this twice/three times a week until your hands are soft and supple and then just do it once a week or so.

This is what I do anyway

fonpokno

My dad has rough hands and he uses a mixture of sugar and almond oil (or olive oil or whatever). Then moisturise with with something like Astral (really cheap thick moisturiser) or Vaseline hand cream. Should sort it out fairly easily if you keep it up and cheap too!

Edit: basically the same thing that Michellenman said!

Azureus

Much the same as above. Exfoliate the excess skin/callus off with sugar or an exfoliator.
Neutrogena do a great intensive hand cream-apply this regularly and at night with gloves and you should see a huge improvement soon.
Also Elizabeth Arden 8hour cream is amazing at getting rid of incredibly dry areas/roughness so you might wanna try that. Smells yuck and is way more expensive then Neutrogena and the likes tho, so i wouldnt rush out n buy some unless you know someone with some lying around

OpenEnded

Just to make sure, I presume you mean wooly winter gloves and and not plastic disposable gloves or anything like that?

Michellenman

Yeah, like rubber surgical gloves. That's what I use anyway. They're disposable and stops you wrecking a pair of normal gloves. I'm sure woolly gloves would be ok if you could get nothing else.

taram

If you really wanted you can get 'moisture gloves' from places like Boots, they're basically stretchy cotton gloves that help keep the moisturiser working without the sweating you'd get with the latex ones.