Dry damaged skin from hand washing

Sammylouise wrote on Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:37am:

Hands are cracking open due to washing. So bad and stings. I have found hand conditioner is hurting and stinging due to the open cracks of skin whilst looking after grandparents and children. 

The aloe Vera plant is helping as i have used it on sun burn before on grandparents. The top outer layer is useless and the 2nd layer of film is poison but after that the soft flesy inside is great for skin repair. Hope this helps ...

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paulsav wrote on Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:43pm:

Hi Sammylouise

Yes aloe vera is excellent and if you put a little veg oil, ie, sunflower has high Vit e content or olive oil on top of the aloe vera whilst still damp it will seal it in and definitely wont sting. It will also speed up your healing and moisurising process.

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Also do this at bedtime with some cotton gloves on, works wonders.

Regards

Pauline.

BuilderGeoff wrote on Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:48am:

If you can get some O'keeffs working hands, that will solve the problem.  Available from Amazon

paulsav wrote on Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:08pm:

Yes Geoff its very good, but bit expensive and Sammylouise would have wait delivery, sunflower oil has the highest concentration of vitamin e which will sink into the skin and seal in the aloe vera. It doesnt appear she has returned to follow up since posting and if she has used my recommendation...

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... for past 5 days she would now have beautiful moisturised hands. We,ll wait and see

Pauline.

Sammylouise wrote on Fri May 8, 2020 12:27am:

Thanks for the vegetable oil, very good and i am u now using vegetable oil after a layer of aloe Vera 💗 the gloves i remember from a 70's vogue magazine edition. 

There was a character in benidorm sitcom who used vegetable oil ob her face instead of sun screen, was that Madge in the motor wheel chair? ...

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paulsav wrote on Fri May 8, 2020 1:19am:

Wasnt sure you had even read my reply as it was several weeks ago, but glad you have tried it and should have soft moisturised hands by now and so cheap, just little disappointed my reply didnt warrant a helpful tick though. 

Regards

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Pauline.

Sammylouise wrote on Fri May 8, 2020 12:19pm:

Still learning how to use the net and now ticks. I will get there eventually on learning to use the correspondence but if i have not learned ticks yet, here is a big heart instead 💗