Alligator Skin!!!!! - Woodbridge,NJ

You're probably damaging your skin by using the drywall sander, even with the lightest screen setting. It's rubbing off more than the dead skin and causing your hands to overreact. You need to nourish your hands from the inside out rather than continuously scraping off the dry parts.

Use only warm water (not hot) to wash your hands. Switch from soap to a mild cleaning lotion. Wear gloves when you wash dishes. And the best tip that works for me - put coconut oil on your hands before bed. No need to buy an expensive lotion, this works just as well. Slather them up and wear gloves to sleep if you can (I can't stand it so I just do the coconut oil and know that some of it will get on my comforter cover.

Put Nivea Skin Oil (not cream or lotion) on your hands and put on a pair of gloves overnight while you sleep. It works wonders.

Lubriderm lotion is wonderful for dry skin and so is Eucerin. When my oldest was a baby and I washed my hands so many times that my skin was cracking he told me Eucerin and to squeez a bottle of chordizone dream in it. Not sure that the chordizone cream did but it did help.

There's a cream out here lots of people use called Utter Cream and it heals quickly. If you can get some thick lanolin and put it in a small jar with your other lotion at night this would also help because it is thicker and would stay on and create a protective seal on the skin.

Good luck to you.

In fact, I have to make some of my winter body cream up for holiday gifts for the family.

the other S.

You are going to hurt yourself using a sander on your skin.
Put the hardware away.
To keep your hands soft, get some cotton gloves, slather your hands with lotion (or Bag Balm or vaseline or coconut oil or baby oil - diaper rash ointment will work too), put the gloves on and sleep with them like that over night.
Your hands will stay soft.
Use a sugar or salt scrub on them once a week (the dead skin will stay softened but you need to exfoliate it every so often).
You can also do the same thing with cotton socks for your feet.

1. stop using the sander.
2. nourish from within, make sure you are getting a good diet, proper exercise, rest. plenty of water and healthy fats (avocado, olive oil, almonds etc).
3. make repeated use of a heavy moisturizer- eucirin; shea, almond, or coconut butter.
4. use a gentle soap.
5. use gloves if washing dishes or cleaning.
6. use gloves to prevent exposure to wind and cold.
7. use warm not hot water when washing and bathing.
8. give it a few weeks. skin takes a while to correct.

best,
F. B.

Oh my gosh! Please don't do anything like that to your skin. Remember that your skin is the largest organ your body has. It's there to hold everything in, for sure, but also to act as a barrier to keep germs out. Sanding your skin will open the skin and let in germs that can cause you some REAL problems, even introducing it into the bloodstream.

Instead, go to a dermatologist. You can get REAL help there. If you think that's too expensive, just consider how much a hospital visit will cost when you're running a fever of 104 and have an infection that will have to be fought with intravenous antibiotics...

My hands get red and dry every winter. I've found a couple of solutions, but you really have to be persistant with putting on hand lotion frequently and not just morning and night.
1. Go to the feed store and ask for "Bag Balm." No it's not gamorous, but it's a lot cheaper than buying "Utter Cream" from the local pharmacy and is exactly the same stuff only no perfume was added. It will be in a square, green tin can with a cow and clover design on the lid. Yes, it's for cows. It's used to keep their utters from chapping. It's also used on horse saddles to keep them from cracking. You only need to use it once or twice a day. Preferably before bed, since it is greasy. It's petroleum jelly and lanolin mixed.
2. Go to a beauty supply store and ask for "Queen Helene's Whipped Cocoa Butter." Smells good and is more cream than the Bag Balm. It's still greasy, but not as bad and can be used more than once/day.
3. Sauve Vitamin E body lotion. That stuff works great, but you have to use it throughout the day.

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My hands get red and dry every winter. I've found a couple of solutions, but you really have to be persistant with putting on hand lotion frequently and not just morning and night.
1. Go to the feed store and ask for "Bag Balm." No it's not gamorous, but it's a lot cheaper than buying "Utter Cream" from the local pharmacy and is exactly the same stuff only no perfume was added. It will be in a square, green tin can with a cow and clover design on the lid. Yes, it's for cows. It's used to keep their utters from chapping. It's also used on horse saddles to keep them from cracking. You only need to use it once or twice a day. Preferably before bed, since it is greasy. It's petroleum jelly and lanolin mixed.
2. Go to a beauty supply store and ask for "Queen Helene's Whipped Cocoa Butter." Smells good and is more cream than the Bag Balm. It's still greasy, but not as bad and can be used more than once/day.
3. Sauve Vitamin E body lotion. That stuff works great, but you have to use it throughout the day.

Shortening. It's the lard that our mothers used to line the baking pans, fry chicken, etc.

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Sorry - I would NOT use a sander on my skin. I know there are people that do. However, **I** would NOT.

If your skin is that dry - you need to see a dermatologist to find out what's wrong with your skin. It should NOT be **THAT** dry.

If the sander is sanding your skin off and it's coming back? You MIGHT have plaque psoriasis or have an allergy that you are not aware of....

I can't imagine using a sander on my skin. If you can't feel that and it doesn't hurt? Girl - you've got a serious nerve problem too!!

Good luck!!