kimmie
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winters here!Today i saw gritters were out!! a sure sign that its getting colder!!
So i thought i would remind you all to make sure you use extra moisturiser cream when going outside, this is for men and women...you will be less likely to have sore chapped skin in doing so....also...rub a small amout of sugar and olive oil mix into your hands twice a week, wash off with warm soapy water...and use a strong hand cream like a hemp hand cream to stop chapping and split fingers(when i worked in the body shop, I used to get men from building sites doing this at the demo tables....they loved the feel of the difference, their hands were always dry, split and sore before they tried it).
Remember that gardening gloves make your hand sweat and therefore they will need moisture cream before you put them on and again afterwards when you take them off!!
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Sassinak
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Do you know of a good barrier cream to use to stop the dirt getting ingrained into my hands. I can't work in gloves, I find them uncomfortable and hindering, but end up with grimey hands that won't wash clean. I have tried a couple of creams, but they just made my hands sticky so that the muck stuck to them 
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kimmie
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unfortunatly this will happen with all barrier creams but my nan swore that using olive oil for your hands first would act as a barrier and wouldnt be as sticky....although i have never tried this, but it may be worth a try!....if you scrub your hands (at least twice a week ) with a scrub....homemade(sugar and coarse salt mixed with olive oil) or body scrubs are better than hand scrubs(they are more coarse the hand scrubs), the bigger the granules the better, this will help in reducing the problem. I hope this helps sass.
If anyone else knows of a recipe please post it here!
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baldowrie
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yep winter is surely acoming as today 100's of geese flew over, many more than last year. They were so loud and so many of them the sound was deafening
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Diana
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| Sassinak wrote: | | ... but end up with grimey hands that won't wash clean. |
Try washing with a little bicarb of soda - it really gets your hands clean. Then you can wash it off as normal afterwards and moisturise etc
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pictishpunkgirl
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I get ingrained dirt out by putting neat washing up liquid on my hands with a scoop of sugar & rubbing them for a while then rinsing.
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kimmie
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another tip....before you do gardening....scrape your nails over a bar of soap....it will stop the dirt getting underthem when you do the gardening and is also easier to get out from under the nails afterwards!
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Ina
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But who wants to have clean finger nails! It wouldn't look as if you'd done any work at all... 
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Sassinak
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Kneading bread is very good for cleaning out the ingrained dirt LOL
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lor138
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I'm never coming to your house for a sandwich then Sassinak!!! 
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Ina
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Don't worry, the heat when baking kills all known germs...
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lor138
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| Ina wrote: | | Don't worry, the heat when baking kills all known germs... |
Isn't that a quote from the domestos advert Ina?? Oh god, she doesn't put that in her bread too does she??!!!!!!! 
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Sassinak
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I tried Jeyes fluid but it leaves a funny aftertaste.
Domestos is much better and it means that all the bread is white - none of that funny brown stuff haha
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lor138
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Hee Hee - good comeback Sass!!!
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Ina
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Actually, loo cleaner once did a very good job on my hands: I'd gone to Denmark on my motorbike, 500km in pouring rain - my hands were black from the wet gloves... Nothing would shift the blackness from the skin, and as I'd gone there for a wedding, I really didn't want to turn up with black hands (or in my leather gloves - didn't go so well with my silk skirt!!!). Loo cleaner did the job in the end. I never had hands that white before or after...
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kimmie
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yep and the reason is ...it stripped all your nutrients out of your skin!!
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Ina
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Quite possible - but to be honest, I didn't care - the job needed to be done! And I'm pleased to say my skin has recovered fully.
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