Po ta toes
Dry crack and pain.
Hehe, not quite as bad as it sounds, really.
Everytime I do stuff on my bike, especially mixing pre-mix or other petrol related activities I end up with really dry hands and little cuts on my fingers..... Really sore!
Anyway I know I should wear gloves but never remember until it's too late. So does anyone have any suggestions of good hand cremes or other magic solution that can ease the pain of my dry cracks? Cheers.
Flat Out Biker
I'd give up the pre-mix on the Hornet ..... its a 4 stroke !
Other than that, industrial gloves maybe the ticket
edit .. ok I guess u'r bucket maybe a 2stroker!! I'd still go withe the industrial gloves. Should be able to pick some up from NZ Safety
Scooter boy
bunnings sell cheap latex gloves, bit pervy, but also good when cleaning ya harley, since wash/wax/cleaner/wd40 is all hard on girly hands. i know because i get paper cuts easy as well....
Que?
Buy a decent barrier cream and some lanolin based moisturiser. Now you'll be smelling like a sheeps bum, but your crack wont be sore.
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Po ta toes
Yep the premix is for the bucket although I like getting my hands into all the dirty crap.... So looks like I need to buy some latex gloves and put the box somewhere I'll see them and actually use them! Lanolin.... Sheeps bum.... I like it! So maybe I could put some of that on my hands and then put a pair of gloves on and then I can moisturise while I work?!
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
Best hand cream by miles is that Neutrogena stuff, at least as far as repairing dry, damaged hands:
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Forum whore
I agree with madness....its comon to get dry cracked hands when milking cows.Originally Posted by Madness
Buy a decent barrier cream and some lanolin based moisturiser. Now you'll be smelling like a sheeps bum, but your crack wont be sore.
You're welcome
getting hands consitantly wet and dry is really bad for them...and nomal garden variety hand moisturisers are shit..infact...I reckon they make them worse!
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
Totally agree, unfortunately I get occasional dry/cracked hands as part of an allergy that harrasses me from time to time and I've found that most hand moisturisers do aggravate the problem, that stuff above is the only thing I have found that works and actually helps to heal the cracking.
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sem fiddy pilot
I have a similar problem at work (Jet A1 fuel, and fertilisers)
I have found stuff called "Lipobase" works quite well
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Forum whore
Aqueous cream. You can get big tubs of it from the pharmacy for next to nothing.
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on the up
Good thread Trudes.
I suffer from the same complaint myself. Well actually I don't suffer, I just fix it.
What I've found helps is to use a nail file to file the cracked skin smooth, and then use the hemp cream from the Body Shop on the smoothed out skin. Works for me.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Po ta toes
Thanks guys, some good suggestions! I will have to investigate some of these creams while I'm buying some gloves! I'll have to wear gloves while the cream is on my hands so I don't grease out everything else in the house!
(BTW my hubby thinks it's halirious that I managed to get a bunch of bikers to talk about the type of hand cream they use.... it's ok, he doesn't understand, he has baby bottom smooth hands (not enough hard work I say!))
Double shot!!
I get the same every summer. Just drink lots more water and the problem goes away.
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Forum whore
It's good shit - and cheap. Plus it's a good barrier cream for kids faces if you are face painting them.
It's also a good barrier cream to prevent Boardie rash in the summer and probably boob rubbage as well
My supermarket has the latex and a non latex glove in a ten pack, cheap - I find the latex ones give my hands a bit of a itch so the others are a good alternative.
Crack, latex & cream - all excellent words to use in a sentence
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Heh! I just think it's hilarious that you've start a thread about your dry crack.
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