Homemade lotion for extreme dry skin (cracking fingers etc)?

[travisgier]

Dry skin is the biggest problem in winter and according to skin specialist home made lotion is the best treatment for dry skin..

 

[lwheelr]

My husband has severe cracked and bleeding fingers every year. Three changes really helped a LOT.

1. Yogurt every day. This makes a huge difference.

2. Borage Oil capsules. Borage oil heals from the inside out, and is great for skin and hair. One capsule a day does more taken internally than all the stuff you can rub on the outside.

3. Getting the Chlorine out of the water. When we visited Texas for a week, and drank only well water, his skin problems completely disappeared, and so did mine. This is really hard, since federal law requires that all community water systems use Chlorine (another instance of trading an occasional risk for a long term certain killer). If you can at least get it out of drinking water, that helps, but it doesn't completely do the trick unless you get it out of bath and wash water too.

Lotions can help, but if you can heal the damage so it doesn't even occur in the first place it is much better.

 

[laurahill]

I think olive oil,almond oil,jojoba oil is a good moisturizer for dry skin.Also use tea tree oil for cracked finger.It is a fungus killer and good anti-oxidant.

 

[freemotion]

Although I generally take a natural, plant-based approach whenever possible, sometimes emergency treatment is needed in order to function well! I get cracks on the tips of my thumbs and when this happens, the absolute best and quickest cure is a drop of Krazy glue right on the crack. Usually one treatment is enough. I used to use New Skin liquid bandage but not anymore. That stuff, like many first aid treatments sold in this country, is made to stink and sting so silly Americans will think it is doing something amazing. Krazy glue does neither, and works much more quickly. And my thumbs don't have a strong chemical smell when near a client's face.

Just don't glue your fingers together.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

bag balm! my dad swears by the stuff. he says before you go to bed to soak your hands/feet real good in water, towel dry em, put bag balm on, put socks/gloves on, and go to bed! repeat for a few nights until they are soft.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Although I generally take a natural, plant-based approach whenever possible, sometimes emergency treatment is needed in order to function well! I get cracks on the tips of my thumbs and when this happens, the absolute best and quickest cure is a drop of Krazy glue right on the crack. Usually one treatment is enough. I used to use New Skin liquid bandage but not anymore. That stuff, like many first aid treatments sold in this country, is made to stink and sting so silly Americans will think it is doing something amazing. Krazy glue does neither, and works much more quickly. And my thumbs don't have a strong chemical smell when near a client's face.

Just don't glue your fingers together.

I use superglue too. My hands crack terribly, and superglue keeps me sane. I also use it for papercuts.

 

[kristenm1975]

Wow, I'd forgotten about Krazy glue! As I dimly recall, isn't that what the stuff was originally created for? Emergency field dressings during WW2 perhaps? Can't remember, but how interesting! I'll pass that along.