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Take care of your hands!
By Lonneke | January 13, 2008
For many women is it a reoccurring nightmare. Every year again they suffer with winter hands. How do you recognize winter hands? You have dry, painful and vulnerable hands. It’s real annoying, especially if the problems don’t seem to go away! Here are some tips to make the best of it.
Rub it in!
Use every day a day crème with a nourishing effect and don’t forget about your nail groove since they can dehydrate very easily! There are special pens available for your nail straps/ grooves. This handy little tool, that is foresee of an oil, is taking care of your nail straps and with the point of the pen, you can push them a little bit backwards at the same time. The oil helps with this to do this all a bit smoother.
Handgloves
Are your hands full with cloves and are they very painful? Cover them before you go to bed with a thick layer of Vaseline or hand cream. Wear cotton handgloves and let your hands absorb the cream all night. Sterile cotton hand gloves can be purchased at almost every pharmacy.’Earth Therapeutics’ has special warm gloves like the ‘Moisturizing Handgloves’. These gloves use your body temperature to make the cream softer which makes the healing crème easier absorbed by your skin.
Mask
These days we have different hand crèmes in the store. The assortment is growing and growing. It wasn’t always like this; in the early days the assortment wasn’t as big as now or crèmes were too expensive for particular families. Creating a mask yourself is easier than ever before with ingredients of own kitchen. you’ll be astound, but it works!
One of grandma’s old receipt box: Mix 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon mineral oil with a few drops lemon juice. Rub in your hands with this. Let the mixture absorb for about 10 minutes and wash it off with warm water. Result: Your hands are soft again and do never radiate as before!
Peeling or scrub
Also your hands need some scrubbing once in a while. A good peeling or a scrub is a real reward for your hands which helps you to remove all the dead skin cells. This will result in a healthier and better breathing skin and are nutritious crèmes better absorbed. You can make a hand scrub quite easily by yourself to mix through some sea salt with oil. After a scrub or peeling you’ll always need to rub your hands in with a rich nutritious hand cream.
washing
Wash your hands with a feeding, soft soap. Dab your hands dry, instead of rub them dry.
Cleaning
Is it time for your spring break house cleaning? Cleaning detergents contain aggressive acids which dehydrate your skin. Always wear while you’re cleaning latex hand gloves to protect your hands!
Outside
When it’s freezing, nothing is more delicious then feeling warm. Your fingers will cramp-up from the cold. Once within in a warm space they will warm up again and that will result in a tingling sensation in your fingers. Protect your hands against the cold with hand gloves before you go outside.
Little tip: Always make sure you have the right size gloves; by too small hand gloves your fingers will swell, by to large hand gloves it goes journey!
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