Topic: Soft hands!

[ninnyscrops]

How many blisters have we got then? 

Planted out seedlings at the weekend and now have "trowel handle palm blister syndrome"   :(

Next spring put BIG plaster on palm under gardening gloves.  ::)

[Doris_Pinks]

No blisters here, but my hands look like they belong to someone who is 110!
Hand cream on before bed tonight! ;D

[saddad]

So do mine but I feel 110...
 ::)

[Mrs Ava]

My hands have been horrid for years.  From my Saturday job in the hairdressers washing hair and rinsing perms, to gardening.  My nails are short and brittle, I have calluses on my hands, especially where my rings are as they dig in, and I have permanent dark staining on my first fingers and thumbs.  The only time my hands are really clean is if I bleach them (eek) or after 2 weeks on holiday on the beach.  The sand scrubs them clean whilst the salt water bleaches them.

[Carol]

 ;D  The female side of our family were not blessed with nice hands and mine are awful.  After a few minutes gardening they are rough and my nails are black with good honest soil  which doesn't come out even after washing.  Nails break straight across but who cares.   I like getting them dirty.  My feet are worse....  ;D ;D

[theothermarg]

oh emma jane isn,t it a pain when hands get stained like that i,v always been a hands on person and did ceramics for 16 years the skin surface goes and every thing gets ingrained , i tend to tuck fingers out of site as people think you don,t wash them when you have scrubbed and scrubbed :-[
marg

[cornykev]

Mine have been rough for years, a good dousing of E45 cream sometimes helps.  ;D ;D ;D

[laikadog]

green elder ointment is good for your hands, we made some and my mum thought it was fantastic,
cant remember the recipe tho,
it was something like 3 parts elder leaves, 1 part,comfrey leaves, loads of lavender heads, stewed in a couple of blocks of solid veg oil , strained,then potted in jam jars, lasted for months ;D

[timelady]

I'm careful to always put sunblock on my hands, a habit from cycling. Considering I'm now gardening and am usually scrubbing paint off my hands mine are pretty good. I use Burt's Bees almond cream but even use vaseline if need be on bad days. (Or Badger Healing Balm is good too - in a little tin, no petroleum.) Someone here mentioned sugar soap with olive oil somewhere? And finally, taking flax oil capsules - I introduced it to my mum a couple years ago and she now swears by it! She actually had cracking skin on her hands, no longer. :)

Tina.

[mc55]

even when I wear gloves my hands are so rough after I've been to the lottie - and how does mud get under your nails when you wear gloves ?? one of lifes mysteries.