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Anyone use them? Do they irritate your skin or actually help, and spead up healing? Reason I ask is I've read you need to remove the product with nail polish remover and I already have dry, sensitive skin. I tend to get cracks on the tips of my fingers, that hand cream doesn't quite penetrate and regular bandaids can't conform to. I've tried many things over the years (sleeping with white cotton gloves, slathering on vaseline and/or Aquaphor, Cortaid type creams, etc.).

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Mary

http://www.bandaid.com/liquid_faq.shtml

Q. If I want to remove Liquid Bandage, can I?

A. Yes. If necessary, Liquid Bandage can be removed with JOHNSON'S® Baby Oil or mineral oil. One minute after applying oil, wash area with soap and water. Repeat if needed.

Now baby oil sounds less harsh doesn't it? I already soak with it in a bowl of warm water. A trick my daughter and I came up with to keep the cracks to a minimum.

I wish a doctor would tell me - oh you're deficient in this mineral or vitamin, eat more or less of these specific foods.

But no, they tend to prescribe creams and ointments. I'd rather try natural ingredients (having gone the Cortaid route years ago).

Thanks alicia.

as noted on the site, i use them for lots of little cuts on my hands and those annoying little pieces of skin around your fingernails...

Mary, I have used it and if I remember correctly it does sting as it dries. Similar to Nu skin and those type products. It also turns dark and looks like dirt on your skin around the cut. I have never tried it on my finger cracks, I have tried the nu skin type products and they don't really help much. The best luck I have had is with the Aveeno lotion that you recommended to me, and using silvadene when I do crack. I know the prescription thing is an issue for you, so the silvadene thing is out. Covering at night with an antibiotic ointment helps sometimes too, a band-aid might stay on at night when you aren't trying to do things.

in the winter, i use Zim's Crack Creme (yes, that's what it's called) and put cotton socks on my hands at night right before i go to sleep.... i do the same for my feet too.

I've used Udder Creme on my hands during the winter months...yes you read correctly...Udder Creme...farmers actually use the stuff to keep their cows from getting chafed and cracked.

Eric

i've heard good things about that stuff

Nexcare makes a NoSting product in drops and a spray:

http://tinyurl.com/6pbcn

I have also used bag balm/udder cream, it worked ok. It did work better than the Zim's crack creme, but the bag balm was much greasier. I still have to say, the Aveeno intense relief hand cream is one of the best. I don't crack now that I use it several times a day (unless my eczema flares up) I haven't found anything that stops the cracking from eczema.

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Have you tried Badger Healing Balm? My husband uses it when his hands get cracked and super dry. He works outside and uses his hands, it is what alot of the outside working men use, it seems to work really well but is quite greasy. It would be good to put on at night. Most of the ingredients are all natural.

Virgin olive oil, Natural beeswax, Castor Oil, Aloe Vera Extract, & Essentail oil of Sweet Birch.
Just thought I would through that out there.
I just went to the site and it says its orgin came from a fellow who had cracked fingers, and came up with this balm. Here is the link.
http://www.badgerbalm.com/

I use Aquaphor on my youngest when she gets these dry patches on her belly, it seems to work until I stop using it and then it comes right back. Never thought to try the Badger because I always think of hands, I may try it.

that badger balm is good too!

Ive used that on my daughter and myself before and it does sting......but it sure doesnt come off for a while....like a regular banaid would. My daughter screamed like crazy the one time I put it on her........so no more of that for her. She has to have those Barbie and SpongeBob band aids anyways.

they're so lucky we dont use iodine like our mothers did. YOW!!!

I remember the days of Methiolade and Bactine on scraped and skinned knees...YEEOWSERS!!

Eric

oh yeah, early practitioners of downright sadism. remember those cooing little speeches about how it wouldnt hurt??

YEAH, RIGHT!

We use them a LOT at the police dept due to the NUMEROUS cuts, scrapes etc we occur during the course of a normal day I have not had any problems with it and I've got very sensitive skin.

Dennis

alicia-w wrote:they're so lucky we dont use iodine like our mothers did. YOW!!!

OOUCHY, just thinking about it makes it HURT And YES....the GOOD ol' Bactine, I can STILL smell it.........funny how certain smells return you to memories either good or bad!

Dennis

i use them, they work great and you cnat even see them, no more bandaids for me