Cracked Skin - Need a Good Home Remedy

[shawndell]

Vasaline will help a lot. and put some gloves on your hands at night when you sleep.In the morning you should feel better.you need to keep it up for a few days though and, any time you feel dryness coming on.

[Blubayou]

I use Palmers Cocoa Butter - you can get it at Walgreens - and wear cotton gloves at night.

[rgcraig]

I can get the measurements, but a lady at work makes this cream and said it's wonderful for dry skin.

Vitamin E, baby oil, and Vaseline.

[Jack Shephard]

http://www.badgerbalm.com/c-5-body-butters.aspx

This is good for cracked skin

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

I have BADLY chapped and cracked hands. Especially all my knuckles. Anyone have a good remedy?

I don't know if anyone suggested this yet but get some vaseline and rub a lot in. Then, wear vinyl gloves over it overnight. I use vaseline on a regular basis in winter because it WORKS. Lotion has alcohol and can dry your skin.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

So don't swallow them as well?

Putting the oil on your hands is just good for removing the soreness, but I think if you take Vitamin E its also good for your skin. Not certain about that....

My hands tend to crack badly in the wintertime, too (and just about anytime from having my hands in hot water a lot). Most lotions either don't really help, or will sting and burn any cracked areas. My best results have been from:

Arbonne body butter <----best results
Arbonne hand cream
Putting Vitamin E oil on sore spots
Weleda Skin Food, and Weleda Almond Moisture Cream <----my favorite because it has a very light scent, and is good for sensitive skin

[Timmy]

"Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee"!

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

Super glue will keep the cracks closed.........

Don't laugh. My mom does this all the time and it really works! Her doctor told her to!

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Bag Balm... Is that the stuff we used for cow teats?

Yes, it is. But it works great for dry skin. Keith has a horrible of eczema, so we've "tried them all"

Pure olive oil with cloth gloves at bedtime is good. That works well.

Cornhusker's Lotion is also good.

The key to it is that whatever you use, you have to keep it up. You can't stop just because you got it cleared up.

[Glenda B]

Bag Balm is good, but my alltime favorite is Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. Use liberally at night, or when you can keep your hands out of water and wear cotton gloves. I recently had some spots frozen off, and my Dermatologist recommended vaseline. I have used it on my face and hands for about 23 years and there is nothing better for dry skin as far as I can tell.
Do this for several days. And even after the cracks heal continue to use it and you probably won't have another episode.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I can get the measurements, but a lady at work makes this cream and said it's wonderful for dry skin.

Vitamin E, baby oil, and Vaseline.

That sounds like the same one I use but instead of oil, lotion.