Dry Hands/Fingers

Health food stores -- Whole Foods, etc. -- are better places to find shea butter. Get 100% shea butter if you can. It's fantastic stuff for a million uses.

~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Aveda Hand Relief was given this 2004's Allure magazine Best of Beauty award for hand cream....and I've used several tubes of it. It's my favorite hand cream --- I've tried tons of high-end and rock-bottom-priced hand creams. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Yeah -- and Zim's Crack Cream is pretty good, too --- but gooey. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Haw! (Flaxseed oil is great for this too.) ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Neutrogena tests on animals. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Yeah yeah YEAH. That stuff is worth every dime! ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

It's funny about "expensive". Usually what is most expensive is buying stuff with just a smidgeon of the best ingredients, and a bunch of extra stuff that doesn't help. If you get the ingredient that does most of the work it will be more per fl oz, but cheaper per application.

I go to my dermatologist for skin needs because it's so much cheaper to get the active ingredient without paying for all the cosmetics marketing.

Also because this lady is an internist. She can look at my skin and tell me what my hormones are doing. She's so excellent.

Tina

Well, the L'Occitane hand cream is 20% shea butter. The other ingredients are honey, almond, linseed and althea oil, and essence of african flowers. It has a very light sweet floral scent that I am addicted to. It's amazing stuff.

Because the finger is a recent development my dear Watson. ;=)

I do, I do! You can tell if a person is drinking enough liquids by checking their tongue for cracks. I'm happy to report that mine is crack free.

Seems that this is a popular remedy here too.

Now can anyone tell me where I would find white cotton gloves? I'd like to have them on hand.

Any large drugstore or any beauty supply store has cotton gloves for sale. Look in the section that has loofahs and shower caps and stuff. They're not always white, though -- the ones I bought had flowers on them. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Thank you, Sooz.

I remember getting a rash when I was kid, I think for Mr.Bubbles? My mother put petroleum jelly on my hands and then secured white cotton socks over them. Worked a charm. I'd rather use the gloves though.:=)

Shea butter is great, but I don't know if a standard drugstore will carry it. You are probably better off at a natural foods store/co-op kind of place.

Lanolin is also nice - look for Lansinoh or PureLan in the breastfeeing supply area of Target or similar store.

Barbara

Sounds yummy. I get a cream from a local soap maker that helps arthritis and other joint pain. It has olive seed oil, shea butter, mango butter, cocao seed butter, emu oil, MSM and calendula. I love the scent and the after scent of natural calendula. I got it mostly for Pete's hand pain, and everytime he uses it I perk up and sniff the air.

Tina

*smiles* You sound like Adam when I use Hair Food on my curls---I smell like a tropical paradise for days, and every time he walks by, I get my hair lifted to his nose and he inhales deeply.

Link! Link! I have to have some of that stuff!

-Kalera

Dr. Sooz wrote:

People's tongues crack???

-Kalera

Margie wrote:

Hmmm. I guess I shouldn't ask about whose crack on whose tongue.

Tina