Dry crack and pain.

**allycatz** · 19th July 2009, 19:15

Ask your Dr about Lipidous cream....its only available on prescription but is a fatty based cream. You could also try Eulactol heel balm on the split areas at night

**Hiflyer** · 19th July 2009, 23:08

Lucas' Papau ointment, or pawpaw as it is pronounced is a beauty for all cuts dry skin scars scabs etc,

ungvita is also brilliant, not as quick working as papau and also makes you smell like a crooss between a new magazine and a fish :S

**Pixie** · 20th July 2009, 08:54

Originally Posted by Trudes

Thanks for all the replys everyone... I'm going to visit my chemist tomorrow and rattle off some names and then head to the safety shop to get some gloves.
My cracks are bleeding from a day of bucket racing with shitty dry hands... no more she cried!!

Fiber Glass International Trade shops have Nitrile gloves for $12.00/100.

Get Gloves in a Bottle from hardware stores or safety stores.This stuff will protect skin from strong acids.

Go to the chemist and pay 5 times as much

**Pixie** · 20th July 2009, 09:00

Originally Posted by gatch

Not every feels its necessary to beat their chests and proclaim how tough we are ?

Just indicates latent homosexuality

**prettybillie** · 20th July 2009, 10:09

Me and the girls I was on my basic training course with the military used to get the same thing. They gave us blistex lip ointment - the one in the white pot. Worked a treat - cleared all the cracks up over night!!!!

**Colapop** · 20th July 2009, 10:22

Get to NZ Safety - I think? (bottom of the gorge) They have industrial barrier cream. Stops shit like concrete, oil, grease from getting on ya skin. It's what we use on site.

**Del Fuego** · 20th July 2009, 19:02

or something similar. It is a skin repair cream used by rock climbers and is bloody magic. Super Vitamin E plus herbs and crap. Works an absolute treat repairs worn, nicked, broken, cut skin... I can normally climb again the day after a hard climbing session... which is a miracle... I am a wuss

Get it from some climbing gyms etc

**Okey Dokey** · 21st July 2009, 08:19

Yikes, Trudes, it sounds like there are heaps of good products out there. Let us know what works for you in the end.

**Trudes** · 21st July 2009, 08:25

Absolutely! I had some Neutrogena hand creme so I used some of that which helped with the initial pain. Then I tried some Palmer's Olive Butter cream, which was also quite good. So gotta go to the chemist today so will ask about some of the creams that you lovely folks have recommended, so will post up how I get on.

**Colapop** · 21st July 2009, 15:31

Originally Posted by Okey Dokey

Yikes, Trudes, it sounds like there are heaps of good products out there. Let us know what works for you in the end.

I don't think she'd want it in her end if it's dry and painful!!

**newbould** · 21st July 2009, 15:48

Well done Col, this was all far too serious. I remember a little song from school days that may help

"Rich girls they use vaseline,
poor girls they use lard,
Dinah uses axel grease
because her cracks so hard"

Or something like that

**1wheel riot** · 13th August 2009, 19:39

emu skin repairer cream or a cream with honey would work to.

**puddy** · 13th August 2009, 20:38

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Aqueous cream. You can get big tubs of it from the pharmacy for next to nothing.

What he said!

**Lissa** · 14th August 2009, 10:22

There is a really good handcream that my mother gets from the Paua Shell Factory in Carterton. Not sure of the name of it, but its not expensive and not made of Paua

... but it makes your hands as soft as a babies bottom!