Ok so apparently my skin is too soft and so gripping paper for my filing job is not easy and I've made mistakes because the paper keeps sticking to each other (and of course to human error and me not double checking) and I can't get them apart with out licking my finger. I've tried the little finger tip sleeves that have grips on them, but they don't work. And I can't stand using that petrie dish looking stuff. I already have a bad habit of touching my face, that if I used that my skin would be even worse than it already is.
Soooo i need to find a way to roughen up my skin. I'm going to be gardening soon, but I don't think that will really roughen up my hands to much. What are other things I could do or try? Any other nifty office product that could help?
**Oh and something portable. I'm a work study so I don't have a desk job :( It's a go where I'm needed and file in random corners under stairwells. Creepy, I know.
When I worked in an office, I would get a soap dish and cut a sponge to fit. Wet the sponge a but, and use that to wet your finger. I'd buy big packs from the dollar store and cut each sponge in pieces. I changed sponges every few days.
Rock climbing would do it as an exercise. or plying the guitar, that is portable :)
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Calluses actually make gripping slick dry surfaces MUCH harder... because there's less oil (aka they're much drier). It's *almost* as bad as getting super glue on your fingers (filling up your finger prints makes it *impossible* to grip). Licking your fingers (or getting them wet) does the same thing to your fingers as licking your lips: chaps them... and they get really, really dry. Without the oils, your fingerprints won't work as well. Same token, if you're handling a lot of paper every day, your oils deplenish... creating the same problem... dry finger tips.
It's not that your skin is too soft, it's that it's EITHER:
- too dry
- doesn't have enough fingerprint depth
Just using face lotion (on your hands) will help a great deal. Hand lotion can stain papers... but face lotion is designed to be non-greasy and to soak in quickly (so makeup can be applied). It will do double duty by replenishing oils AND plumping up your fingerprints.
In the meantime... a rubberband around your finger or finger and thumb will help. But you need to replenish the lost moisture.
I don't think rougher skin will help.
I have very thin fingers so the finger cots don't work for me either. Have you tried wrapping a rubber band around the end of your finger? Not too tightly, of course, but I've done that and it works. You should try it.
Cheap and portable.
Best wishes.
the callouses of which you speak will form while performing your job eventually, be patient. Keep a damp sponge nearby to moisten your finger tips.
If you need calluses on your hands start lifting weights! I only know this because I strength train regularly and if I don't wear gloves or grips, they get all rough and I don't want that to happen.
