[richdraws]

So my hands are generally covered in flappers, blood blisters, dry skin, callousses, split tips, pads worn through, nails smashed, cracked and torn, knuckles gouged and the backs of my hands grit rashed-ed. How much of this is preventable with a bit of mincing hand care? Clearly the skinned knuckles are hard to avoid with my simian genetics but I hope there is something can be done for the rest.

What skin care knowledge can anyone pass on? I am worth it 

Yours haggardly

Rich

[Bubba]

Are you uncomfortable with your sexuality or something?

[Mike Tyson]

CLIMB ON CLIMB ON CLIMB ON!!!! Its some good shizzle for sorting out you hands. I also use Palmers Cocoa Butter. Its loaded wid Vitamin E and it leaves your hands smelling like chocolate........... UMMM, Chocolate!!!!!

[Monolith]

As good as Palmers may be, the stuff is made of shit. It's full of polyparabens and all other sorts of carcinogenic wank.
Although it's eased up a lot now, I've always suffered from eczema, and have hence found it difficult to find a product that moisturises and conditions sensitive skin.

http://www.funkyraw.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=47

Try this. I'm just about to order some and I'll let you know how I get on, I dare say it would be just the ticket.

[Mike Tyson]

As good as Palmers may be, the stuff is made of shit. It's full of polyparabens and all other sorts of carcinogenic wank

I didn't know that.

It still smells nice though.

[Monolith]

It still smells nice though.

Damn straight! Smells incredible. And Climb On is good stuff indeed. It's moisturising properties don't seem to last too long for me, but I'm sure less manky hand owners have great success with it.

[jfw]

does anyone else find super chalk makes their hands a bit sore?? extra drying agent gubbins??

[Houdini]

Once a year under a full moon when Uranus is in Cancer, we gather in the Brazilian jungle to snort fire and drink the blood of the Aboochi-mammal!

After that, my skin's fine.

[jfw]

this aboochi-mammal?

[Houdini]

?

[richdraws]

Thanks. Climb On is ace on toast for thinning skin and cuts. I wonder if is there much that can be done to prevent flappers, and does anyone else get blood blisters regularly?

I thought pink would nice.

[Bubba]

Hoofmaker is good too.

See bottom of this page: http://www.newton-corbett.co.uk/mane_n_tail.htm

[moose]

I'm another big fan of the Palmer's Cocoa Butter for "smoothing".  If you have problems with additives then those Lush shops do a whole range of hand-creams that use cocoa and shea butter and are supposedly free of antagonising preservatives etc.  The climb-on bars are pretty good too (if only on account of their small size) - perhaps a little too greasey for use during the day and I am not overly convinced that the price is justified (again Lush do some similar waxy bars that are slightly cheaper and look similar).  Other worthwhile products to have in stock are E45 (cheap, no nonsense, non-greasey, goes in smooth, recommended by pharmacists etc) and savlon for soothing / sterilising those little cuts that are turning a little puffy and infected.  A pharmacist once recommended some stuff called "Snowfire" to me as the "atomic bomb" of rough-skin treatments.. not tried it yet myself though.

Best advice though is to get mechanical: occassionally take a pair of nail-clipper / scissors to any tiny "tags" of loose skin or incipient flappers before they tear and take off half a finger.  Sanding / emery boarding callouses near the finger joints before they split or catch and rip on a crystal is also good.  A recent copy of Climbing or Rock&Ice had a bizarre procedure involving a butter knife for removing horrendous build-ups of dead skin!.  I'll dig it out and if it's any good type it up here.  Though frankly those scoopy shaped file things for removing dead skin from your heels work pretty well for heavy duty skin removal.

[Dr T]

The climb on balm's also good on new tat's if anyones interested....
(well that what the missus says I'm needle phobic )

[Andy_P]

Eucerin. Its brilliant. You can get it from Boots. It comes in various strengths and there is one specifically for the hands. I have tried lots of moisturizers (E45, Ocitane Shea Butter stuff, Climb on etc) and this one is by far the best. It is made from Urea (like piss), which is the bodies natural moisturizer. It's about a tenner a tube, but worth it.

[gorgoberry]

Best advice though is to get mechanical: occassionally take a pair of nail-clipper / scissors to any tiny "tags" of loose skin or incipient flappers before they tear and take off half a finger.  Sanding / emery boarding callouses near the finger joints before they split or catch and rip on a crystal is also good.  A recent copy of Climbing or Rock&Ice had a bizarre procedure involving a butter knife for removing horrendous build-ups of dead skin!.  I'll dig it out and if it's any good type it up here.  Though frankly those scoopy shaped file things for removing dead skin from your heels work pretty well for heavy duty skin removal.

Hmmm? That article anything like this? Lovely photos.

http://www.beastskills.com/calluses.htm

Has any one tried this contrast bath malarkey for the poorly poorly fingers and such?

http://www.beastskills.com/contrastbaths.htm

Ain't so sure of its efficacy, I'll ask a passing scientist.

[Bonjoy]

The climb on balm's also good on new tat's if anyones interested....

I prefer butter and a sprig of mint....

[jfw]

?

i just worked out this was supposed to be hay - as in eh?

but i thought it was a close up of the ass crack   

this is the longest friday afternoon ever - someone better post some funny soon

[widdop]

udder cream  ,its the winner

[Jim]

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream is the bollocks, although expensive.
Will be trying the Eucerin next, never heard of it before.
also will be trying witchazel shortly.
have tried nearly everything else and its mostly shit

[webbo]

Eucerin. Its brilliant. You can get it from Boots. It comes in various strengths and there is one specifically for the hands. I have tried lots of moisturizers (E45, Ocitane Shea Butter stuff, Climb on etc) and this one is by far the best. It is made from Urea (like piss), which is the bodies natural moisturizer. It's about a tenner a tube, but worth it.

its currentley on offer in boots £5.95 or there abouts.

[Monolith]

Look out for Moon's forthcoming 'Manicure Maintenance' pack. On shelves soon!

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http://www.slate.com/id/2100652/

[Sloper]

Bloody mincing yoof, you allknow VAS is the true path to good skin ask Vermin.  The stuff with aloe vera is particularly fine and more importantly dead cheap.

[moose]

Look out for Moon's forthcoming 'Manicure Maintenance' pack. On shelves soon!

How dare you intimate that the mighty Moon would take the easy option of rebranding exisiting products!  As we speak he is developing "nano-bots" that actively rebuild skin, rather than the soft option of merely striving to preserve it. 

The stresses of manipulating a very small pair of tweezers have triggered Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!  The strain of using an absurdly over-sized monocle has almost sent him blind!  A rogue batch of 'bots reduced S7 to "gray-goo" and dissolved an Arctic Monkey.   But still he persists!  Showing the diligence and application that marked his cameo in Hard Grit he will not rest until even the most flakey-handed weakling enjoys the permanent skin-tone of a suede rhino.