What is a good hand lotion?

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Winter time. Been working in a lot of tile mortar, grout, setting type joint compound, etc, of late. Hands are chapped.
What is a good NO/LOW odor hand lotion for men?


I bought some hand lotion at CVS today.
Looked for something with no fragrance. Must have been 40 brands and kinds. Sheesh!
Couldn't find any - didn't have my glasses tho.
Bought some Vaseline brand. Says MEN HEALING MOISTURE on the label.
Boy is that some stinking, perfumed stuff!!
$9 down the drain as it stinks so bad I sneeze.
I should have asked here first but didn't think of it.
What do you guys recommend?
Thanks.
 
(quoted from post at 18:33:50 01/18/18) Winter time. Been working in a lot of tile mortar, grout, setting type joint compound, etc, of late. Hands are chapped.
What is a good NO/LOW odor hand lotion for men?


I bought some hand lotion at CVS today.
Looked for something with no fragrance. Must have been 40 brands and kinds. Sheesh!
Couldn't find any - didn't have my glasses tho.
Bought some Vaseline brand. Says MEN HEALING MOISTURE on the label.
Boy is that some stinking, perfumed stuff!!
$9 down the drain as it stinks so bad I sneeze.
I should have asked here first but didn't think of it.
What do you guys recommend?
Thanks.
lubri-derm. Or bag balm if they are realy bad. The lubriderm is easy to find and not that expensive.
 
Second the bag balm. Mine get cracked, split, and downright rough. Does has a slight odor or sorts.. reminds me of linseed oil.
 
Someone brought this subject up last year and the only thing I ever had good luck is this stuff-it is expensive but it even works on cracked thumbs.---Tee
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The best so far.
Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream

$1.49 at Wally World
Made by Norwegians for Norwegains.
 
Silicone glove is the name of the stuff I use. I don't know where my wife gets it but it is one of the few things that work for me.
 
Try 'Curel Fragrance free'. Pretty good stuff. I worked refueling aircraft (a million years ago) had to take my gloves off to open the filler caps. Every joint on my fingers bled at days end. Had a bowl of lanolin, soaked my hands in warm water for 5 mins. then stuck them in the lanolin. Hands never completely healed until the spring.
 
I like Corn huskers and O'keeffes. Corn huskers has a smell. If I get out of lotion, have used plain old vaseline petroleum jelly
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Husband (and the rest of us) use Curel Fragance Free lotion.

We also occasionally use No-Crack Night Cream - it works well when my husband gets the cracked finger thing. It's pink, it's greasy, it has an odd stink (not exactly Vick's smell - but a stench)... ya definitely won't smell "purdy". LOL
 
Check out www.randolhoney.com. they have the best all natural lotion. It is shipped all over the world. Our clean up man at the car dealership had wet hands and feet all day long, 6 days a week. He's been doing this over 20 years and swears buy it.
 
Same brand, "aloe soothe" works very well, very effective. I don't like any of the perfume reeking kinds of products at all. This one for some reason does not stand out, mild but not over bearing. Seems to absorb quick, with no annoying latent film left behind. Seems to cure dry skin quite well enough. I'd have done the same thing, but waited until spring or summer as cantankerous products like these make good deer repellent near ones garden. Liquid dish soap, just baffles me as to why most of them have this overpowering aroma, vs. just being soap. Its kind of offensive actually.

I'm assuming your not handling any portland cement materials bare handed. If I even touch any of that, it will remove my fingerprints in no time, must be the lye in it. That would really play heck with ones hands. Concrete is even worse.
 
A good one is to have some sheep.LOL Go out and rub your hand over their wool occasionally. I used to work in a place that had some and that is what we did in the winter time. I think the wool has lanolin or something similar.
 
I sheared a lot of sheep 50 -60 years ago and to this day my hands won't chap, and I rarely wear gloves and the winters here are brutal.
 
O'Keeffe's working hands and Unscented day use "No-Crack super hand cream, by Dumont Company Lacrosse Wis. my fingers crack bad, these two have helped tremendously. gobble ps the "No-Crack" does not have that greasy oily sticky feeling after use. My daughter the nurse who washes her hands dozens of times a day put me on to it.
 
Growing up, my friend's dad almost always wore gloves, "hand shoes", as he called them.

Us "young bucks" laughed at him for that, back in the day.

As I've gotten older, I've become a big fan of "hand shoes".

I don't think it would be unreasonable for you to wear appropriate gloves when working with "tile mortar, grout, setting type joint compound", vs. dealing dried out, cracked hands.

Of course, there's some "jobs" probably best done without gloves, when a delicate touch is required! :)
 
I use Eucerin oatmeal enriched cream on my arms and hands(no fragrance). But I also use Okeefe's working hands on my fingertips. I do a lot of outside work during the winter and this combo seems to work well.
 

Corn Husker's Lotion is what I have used for 50+ years..it really helps delay Blisters, too..

For extreme cases, use "Sno-Seal" made for Leather, wear a pair of Latex gloves over it over night..

Has Lanolin and Beeswax and nothing better for leather..heat the boots with a hair dryer and rub in all it will absorb..

When cool, wipe them off, the leather will polish up, too..
 
My vote goes to bag balm. I use it at night and wear nitrile rubber gloves then wash off excess with hot water the next morning.
 
Hmmm, going to have to get some of the non-greasy, non-stinky No-Crack.
The greasy type is good stuff - but stinky and greasy.
 
O'Keeffe's Working hands works for me. Very little smell when applied,
none after a few minutes. It feels a little weird for a few minutes,
similar to Avon's silk glove, but that goes away too. I never seem
to remember to apply it until my hands are cracked and bleeding.
Within a week of once a day application, they are rough, but healed.
It might be much faster if I wore gloves over it, but I don't.
 
automatic transmission fluid... no darn good loosening engines but sure does wonders for the hands. just ask any auto trans. mechanic. manly yes and you'll like it too.
 
Joe's medicated hand cleaner with lanolin. Wash hands once a day and rinse with hot water and dry. Hands stay soft and cuts and scrapes heal quickly. Napa has it.
 
I also use a cream called Cetaphil which is good for for our skin ans has very little alcohol in it which is not good for skin. Use to use Bag Balm but many years ago they chaned the product and it is not as good at healing.
 
Actually ATF fluid is not good for everybody to get on hands. It can have a side effect to skin and don't want to breath a lot of ATF fumes.
 
Women are smarter than us, they unscrew the lids and smell stuff before they buy it, I have seen my Wife do that with everything from perfume to dishwashing soap.
 
For a lotion that isn't greasy and doesn't stink, I recommend Cornhuskers. I use it before and after I do any concrete or tile work
 
any hand cream with a major ingredient of "lanolin" will be good. hard part is to stay with a regular regime of usage. in other words once in awhile don't get it.

suffered from cracked hands and fingers until i retired.
 
Working Hands; not greasy. Anything Corona. Typically has a fair amount of lanolin. I?m well into my winter?s stock. Corona can be found at a feed or fleet store.
 
reminds me of the book of mice and men. the bad guy farm forman always wore a glove on one hand to keep hand soft so as not to irritate his wife's skin.
 
Wow!
I figured I'd maybe get a couple of replies.
I used to get chapped hands as a kid and remember using both bag balm and corn husker's.
Friday is always date night for the Mrs and I.
I wonder if going to Fleet Farm to get some bag balm will be romantic enough for her.
Thanks to all.
 

I am the head dish washer at my place I like to do it because it gets my hands clean. I use a razor blade and shave off the dead skin around the cracks they heal up in a few days after that. If I don't remove the dead skin off it will never heal and get worst. I ware nitrile gloves most all the time use Bag Balm, and most of the lotions in this post they still crack shave the dead skin away from the cracks... Stay away from lotions that contain alcohol, alcohol drys the skin...
 
For many years my hands were so bad in the winter all I had to do was make a fist and my knuckles would bleed.

Moved 11 years ago and the well water was real hard so we installed a softener.

Amazing the difference it made to my hands.

Wash them 2-3 times with plain old bar soap and they come out smoother than a baby's bottom.

No more dry skin, cracked knuckles, broken cuticles.

It makes such a big difference to your skin that I am surprised they don't use it as a selling feature when marketing softeners.
 
When my hands get cracked as they do every winter, I put Vaseline on them and put on a pair of cotton gloves before I go to bed. They are much better in the morning. I also keep the dead skin cut back.
 
"Udder balm" in the little tub with the push to squirt nozzle is an excellent product. Feed store should carry it.
 
I have een using Gold Bond longer than Shack(sp)has been hawking it. I use the diabetic lotion,no smell, and it is not greasy.
 
Not Fruit of the Loom BUT Fruit of the Earth in the orange bottle. It has vitiman E and aloe in it. Is not greasy and smells good. Dry skin and too much soap gets me and this is the best thing I have ever found. It is made in Texas and is cheap. Can be found at Dollar General for $3.00 for two bottles the last time I bought it I think.
 
Not what you asked for, because this stuff stinks to high heaven
and feels like you have Vaseline smeared on your hands, but in
about half an hour your hands are soft. The "greasiness" washes
off with dish soap but the smell does not. Another option if you
can stand the smell. It certainly works well otherwise.

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