O'Keeffe's working hands Hand cream

old · Dec 13, 2013

So ay of you ever heard of this stuff and if you have how well did you like it?? I picked up a jar of it today and hope it helps. I want to adjust my check book today and just touched the check book with the tip of my thumb and the split/crack I have there started bleeding so figure I have nothing to loose in trying the stuff. My hands have been very dry and sore now for weeks

ray hofstetter · Dec 13, 2013

Works for me, but it takes time. Not instantaneous, it takes a couple of days to notice improvement.

jon f mn · Dec 13, 2013

Never tried that, but Udder Cream works great. My wife has that problem too and that is one of the few that will work for her.

Billy NY · Dec 13, 2013

Rich, that is a miserable winter time related condition, I get cracks a the corner of the thumbnails, end up moisturizing them, wearing painters tape over it to prevent further cracking, it comes and goes, but these sure are highly annoying and its like that paper cut pain its nothing when you look at it, but hurts like heck, even better when you jam it when doing firewood or other work LOL! Appreciate that post, be good to see how others deal with it, they are just starting again and its still early in winter. One thing is for sure, have to keep those nails trimmed too, seems to make it worse, talk about tractor maintenance, we need a bit of maintenance too, or it hurts like heck LOL !!!

dcarp · Dec 13, 2013

I use Bag Balm when my hands get really dry. Put a bunch on your hands at night, cover with a pair of old socks and in a couple days they will be healed (pun intended) & softer.

old · Dec 13, 2013

Up till today I have been using band-aids and triple antibiotic cream to help but it is hard to keep band-aids on and do much with your hands where grease and oil come into play. Saw a commercial the other day on this O'Keeffe's working hand and then when I town saw it at Orchenals so figured I had nothing to lose other then a couple $$

farmeroz · Dec 13, 2013

The wife and I get lots of cracked fingers. Usually I end up with bandaides on half my fingertips. We started with O"Keeffe's several weeks ago and I am Very Happy. Took a week or so for it to kick in but very good results. I try to use it when ever I wash my hands.

IH2444 · Dec 13, 2013

works well for me. I discovered the stuff last winter.
rub it in really well for best results.

Fergienewbee · Dec 13, 2013

My hands are fine, but my heels crack--enough to ruin a pair of sox in a few wearings. Wonder if it would work for that?

Larry

Royse · Dec 13, 2013

Rich, I love the stuff! Works best if you put it on and rub it
in good every day instead of just when they're that bad.

Larry, yes, it works on your feet too!

Mark-Ia · Dec 13, 2013

I use Udder Balm on my hands in the winter. works great. For the small cracks, I use a drop of Super Glue on the crack. The pain stops almost immediately, and will heal very fast.

Texasmark1 · Dec 13, 2013

Try udder cream in a white tub with black spots on it. Works on udders and all skin. When I was milking for the family's meals my hands were the prettiest they had been at any time in my life.

Mark

Texas! · Dec 13, 2013

Udder Butter, Bag Balm or whatever you want to call it works twice as good and only costs half (or less) as much. Get it at the feed store.

IH2444 · Dec 13, 2013

(quoted from post at 05:12:25 12/14/13) My hands are fine, but my heels crack--enough to ruin a pair of sox in a few wearings. Wonder if it would work for that?

Larry

they actually have a healthy feet variety too.

petetx · Dec 13, 2013

I used cornhuskers for years

Frank 41 · Dec 13, 2013

I use Fruit of the Earth with vitiam E and aloe and other good stuff. I have had diabetes for 35 years and this is the best stuff I have ever used. It will heal me in half the time and is not greasy. Dollar General sells it very cheap. It comes in a white bottle with an orange cap and a big E on the front. They come in a 2 pack. Get one for each, you and your wife. Works good for sun burn too, whenever that will happen.

retired farmer · Dec 13, 2013

I found the stuff at Ace Hardware a couple of years ago. My hands were starting to crack pretty bad from old age. I would put it on at night and by morning all the cracks were pretty much healed. Then I got a couple of years older and now it doesn't work quite as fast, takes about two days before they heal and then start cracking again. The stuff burns like fire for about five minutes after you apply it and then quits. I don't like anything on my hands so I quit using it. I just grin and bear it till they heal on their own. It is good stuff tho and should start using it again. My knuckles are a mess right now.

NEKS · Dec 13, 2013

This works for me. Only the old can I had said 1.0% sulfate and this one say .03%. Is the new stuff as good as the old.

Bill in Colo · Dec 13, 2013

I use Snowseal basically the same as Burt's Bees.
bees wax and lanolin I use more on hands and feet than my boots.

tdw4 · Dec 13, 2013

I suffered with cracked and bleeding hands for three years, then a friend told me to Super glue the cracks together and then apply O"Keefs to them night and morning Four days later NO cracks. Then I applied it just at night. Now I am just getting my last three chemo treatments and I have not used it for four months. I feel the chemo has killed what ever was causing them to crack in the first place. Super Glue First!!! W4

rodgernbama · Dec 13, 2013

Yea I'm putting it on my hands now. It'll heal cracked hands in a few days. They say it works best putting it on before you go to bed. I think it's a great product.

D beatty · Dec 13, 2013

We used it whe we milked cows and it great stuff the to heal chaped hands. The bag balm made before 1998 was better than the one manufactured after 1998. Wife got several warts on her arm and put it on them every day and after several months they fell off That was the Bag Balm made before 1998 ( had mecury in it). She tried many years latter with the new Bag Balm without mecury and it didn't work.

JMS/.MN · Dec 13, 2013

Read all the replies, before that, first thot was "Udder Balm"....glad to see so many say the same. Got out of dairy in "01, but UB was the ultimate cream for those issues, either on the cows or me. Cracked skin, heat rash, etc.....wherever on the body.

old bc · Dec 13, 2013

I use Nexcare skin crack care on the ends of my fingers when they crack. It is like a medicated fingernail polish but not as stiff. You can get it a most drug stores.
Crack Care

Bret4207 · Dec 14, 2013

O'Keefes is useless for me, so is Zimms Crack Cream. On real bad cracks Porters Liniment or a good dollop of Bag Balm or Udder Cream and a bandaid. For general skin softening in winter, I apply a light coat of Bag Balm or Udder Cream, any udder care product seems to work. It's your skin drying out that does it. Most of those products have lanolin and that seems to be the key. You can get straight lanolin too.

Bag Balm is about as good a boot waterproofer as Sno Seal and lots cheaper. Sno Seal also works good on skin.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 14, 2013

My wife uses it udder places than her udder.

Vito · Dec 14, 2013

i use Bag balm.Just moisten hands first with water,apply,rub in and you get pretty quick results.

HTH

Vito

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