Dry skin on hands

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motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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I use no shower creams nor soap on my body most days. If I have been exerting myself or it's been especially hot, then I'll use a cream, but a scaly patch appeared on my lower abdomen soon after I started using cream shower wash, and I have a patch on my upper thigh that gets itchy if I use them too. I wash all hairy and 'potentially smelly' parts with plain white unperfumed bar soap, but I reckon a brisk rub over with hot running water and a flannel deals with most skin. I have no complaints from my Good Lady!

Googling sodium benzoate rewards you with all sorts of cranky websites decrying SB as sperm of Satan at the very least. Most are obviously nutters. Doubtless it does affect some people's skin though.

footnote

924 posts

105 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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motco said:
I use no shower creams nor soap on my body most days. If I have been exerting myself or it's been especially hot, then I'll use a cream, but a scaly patch appeared on my lower abdomen soon after I started using cream shower wash, and I have a patch on my upper thigh that gets itchy if I use them too. I wash all hairy and 'potentially smelly' parts with plain white unperfumed bar soap, but I reckon a brisk rub over with hot running water and a flannel deals with most skin. I have no complaints from my Good Lady!

Googling sodium benzoate rewards you with all sorts of cranky websites decrying SB as sperm of Satan at the very least. Most are obviously nutters. Doubtless it does affect some people's skin though.
I know what you mean about the sodium benzoate websites.

I have to say I'm genuinely disappointed cutting sodium benzoate out in handwash isn't the breakthrough for others that it was for me - I really thought it was a Eureka! moment worth sharing.

It's such an annoying/frustrating condition - all the worse if it's not just on your hands.

Years ago I was tormented with it on my waistband area - which pretty much rules out public swimming if you don't want to scare the horses.

Avoiding biological washing powder sorted the waistband out luckily but took time to discover being pre-internet days.

PieSlayer

8,842 posts

186 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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PlayersNo6 said:
mrsshpub said:
Neutrogena Norwegian Formula hand cream. I prefer the unscented product.
This. Marvellous stuff.
This x1000

Gandahar

9,600 posts

127 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Let me role back a minute

There is a bloke called ANGRY DOG

who is worried about dry skin on hands?

Something to read whilst scaling

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139069.Enduranc...

Man up. This is not LH (Ladies Hands) it is PH



Edited by Gandahar on Tuesday 21st February 22:00

Flibble

6,470 posts

180 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Gandahar said:
Let me role back a minute

There is a bloke called ANGRY DOG

who is worried about dry skin on hands?

Something to read whilst scaling

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139069.Enduranc...

Man up. This is not LH (Ladies Hands) it is PH



Edited by Gandahar on Tuesday 21st February 22:00
I think you underestimate how much of a pain it can be. Saying man up is all fine until you can't do "manly" stuff because your hands are literally bleeding over everything. I like to tinker with my car as much as the next man, but brake dust in open wounds is definitely where I draw the line.

Long Drax

744 posts

169 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Gandahar said:
Let me role back a minute

There is a bloke called ANGRY DOG

who is worried about dry skin on hands?

Something to read whilst scaling

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139069.Enduranc...

Man up. This is not LH (Ladies Hands) it is PH



Edited by Gandahar on Tuesday 21st February 22:00
You clearly have no idea what you are writing about.

This is the Health forum of PH. Obviously you are in the wrong place. May I suggest you'd be more comfortable perusing DH (Dick Heads), the website where only real butch, he-men hang out.

wilwak

759 posts

169 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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I've always had the same problem and a few weeks ago my doctor suggested Dermol 500.

What an amazing change!

It's an anti infection moisturiser.

Big 500ml pump action pot for about £10.

Available from Amazon or any chemist.

Worth a try.

Munka01

453 posts

138 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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DRY YOUR HANDS PROPERLY.

Will make a huge difference.

Flibble

6,470 posts

180 months

Thursday 23rd March 2017
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wilwak said:
I've always had the same problem and a few weeks ago my doctor suggested Dermol 500.

What an amazing change!

It's an anti infection moisturiser.

Big 500ml pump action pot for about £10.

Available from Amazon or any chemist.

Worth a try.
Saw my dermatologist this week. He prescribed Dermol, and a non-steroid immunomodulator ointment. Too early to say how effective this combination will be, but it feels like things are progressing at least.

Also took blood for testing and put me in the queue for a patch test.

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

169 months

Saturday 1st April 2017
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A lot of hand creams replace moisture in the skin, and over time, the skin won't naturally produce it anymore.

I have found before work to use a product called 'gloves in a bottle' which does help to reducing skin from drying out.

Then in the evening, i use Crabtree & Evelyn gardeners hand recovery system and this works very well!

JumboBeef

3,772 posts

176 months

Sunday 2nd April 2017
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Dehydration. Drink more water.

In fact, drinking more water will solve some/many/most of your medical problems smile

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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I suffer majorly with dry cracked and dry hands, the ends of my fingers can just split for no apparent reason as do the areas at the end of my nails where the nail meets the skin on the edge of my finger, it can be so bloody painful, the doctor diagnosed it as contact dermatitis.

What seems to cause it are soaps, and in particulalr washing up liquid, if I do the washing up without gloves on, my hands flare up massively and really quickly, stress doesn't help either.

I use an aqueous cream (which is dirt cheap) to wash my hands and then I apply it quite liberally to them as a moisuriser, it helps, however it doesn't go away completely, I also have a small bottle of it with me when at work o I can apply it 3 or 4 times a day, usually after I've washed them.

Funny thing is, when we were holidaying last year in Sardinia my hands almost cleared up and I forgot my cream.