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Knitspiration
✌🏼 More hand care tips from our knitting community
Yesterday I featured some products to help take care of your hands.
Well you all had quite a few additional recommendations.
So much so that I thought I should do a follow up.
But rather than me telling you why these products are great, I'm sharing what our community members had to say.
Here's some of the favorite hand care items our community is using:
There's another excellent protein enriched product that is non-greasy, works for all-over skin care moisturizing, strengthens nails, and is so inexpensive you buy it by the QUART in a pump bottle. It's called Mane 'n Tail Hoofmaker by Straight Arrow. Yes, mane, tail, and hoof, as in HORSES! You can get it on line (Amazon) or at your local tack and feed store. Race horse groomers are said to have been responsible for it galloping from the stables to the human care aisles when they realized their daily use on horses hooves and legs resulted in their own nails growing longer and stronger. Fifteen years ago a B&B guest turned me onto it and I've used it non-stop ever since in place of expensive lotions.
Norma also recommended Fiebing's Udder Balm but that one was not nearly as popular as Udderly Smooth. This is another fast absorbing, non-greasy moisturizer that many knitters swear by. It's secret ingredient is urea, which helps strengthen skin’s natural barrier by gently exfoliating and deeply moisturizing dry, stressed skin.
I personally love Bag Balm. Long long ago, way before the internet, I bought it at feed stores. Now it's online. I had a science lab with formalin treated specimens and then wrote on a blackboard using chalk (no gloves back then). Talk about fingertips so dry they cracked and bled!
Farmers used it for milk cows or cows with calves. It's great for hands that are chafed by frequent hand washing, or for cows with chapped or reddened irritated udder teats.
You can also ask plumbers who need to repair leaking pipes. Their hands get really chapped!
I go to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and this is what the entire team of dermatologist recommend! You should try it. It's clean and causes no negative interaction with anyone!
I push the right knitting needle back with my left index finger. This usually means I have a callus on my left index finger. Well, last week I switched projects and used a needle with a sharper tip, and poked a hole in that callus. It hurt! And knitting aggravated it.
I used New Skin in the tiny aerosol can (also in a popular liquid form), and went back to knitting with no pain or further injury. I want to make sure I always have a can of it on hand. It fixes small injuries without a noticeable band-aid. It lets me feel what I'm doing while it works, is invisible, really protects, stays on until it's done its work, and then falls off by itself.
— Johann Mitchell
Conclusion
So there you have it!
These were some great additional product recommendations and mostly things I had never heard of before.
But what do you think?
Have you tried any of these products?
What are your favorite hand care products or routines?
Hit reply and let us know!
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