Surely to hell there is something that will help my hands!!

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Mostly posting for traffic, but I'm getting really fed up of the state of the skin on my hands.

I can get this dry, horrible, sore skin anywhere and it usually flares up on my neck, face and hands. Have been prescribed creams that clear up my neck and face, but not my hands.

My fingers feel like they are burning, it's awful, so sore and ugly

You may have a wheat intolerance OP

Another vote for Aveeno. It solves all of my Eczema/dermatitis issues when other products don't work.

Sorry but I am a little bit horrified that your hands are like that and you don’t already gloves when baking!

Exactly !
You felt bad about holding the baby but not about using your unprotected hands to make stuff that people presumably buy and eat ?!

DH has OCD and washes his hands constantly. As a result they are permanently cracked, bleeding and ultra dry. He got recommended Flexitol Cracked Heel balm. It's amazing! For the first time in years his hands don't look like they belong to a zombie. Even our DCs (4 & 2) commented on how much better they looked!

Are you coeliac? My hands look like that if I eat gluten. The only thing that works for me in a flare up is Kiehl's ultimate strength hand salve.

You could try washing up gloves for when you're doing the dishes. Minimising the amount of water you drench your hands in will help drastically I recommend those rubber gloves that cover both your hands and at least halfway up your forearm.

E45 cream is really good for dry, flaky, and itchy skin, eczema, sun burn, and dry psoriasis.

The type of hand soap you're using could be a factor. If you wear latex gloves you might be allergic?

Do you wear gloves when you’re handling the icing etc? Bet it’s the sugar.

Nothing is going to make a difference unless you are really strict about wearing gloves. No hands in water without gloves. No cleaning without gloves.

And when you try a cream, use it for at least a couple of weeks to see if there is a difference. Deffo try the overnight cotton gloves with a good emolient like epiderm or epimax.

I find this good, lots on at night with gloves

Flexitol Hand Balm - a lighter version of the heel balm recommended above so it absorbs better.

Derma Guard is a good non-greasy fragrance-free light moisturiser and barrier cream.

I was about to suggest Child's Farm, so many people swear by it. I use Aveeno as I get contact dermatitis, sometimes so badly the skin cracks and bleeds

Definitely gloves or socks over your hands at night too. I also find lathering it under rubber gloves when washing up too, he heat helps the cream to absorb

Aveeno was the only thing that worked for me too. It is quite cheap, I think 3 or 4 pounds.

I get skin allergy really bad in hay fever season, effects my face, neck, arms.
My eyes can really puff up too. At the moment I’m trying to keep my skin as moisturised as poss, currently using child’s farm, and Eurax - can buy off supermarket shelf (for itching) And take oral and nasal anti histamines.

Moo Goo Wash, it might be called milk wash. It's expensive but using that instead of any kind of soap or other washes (even SLS free) cured my hands. I still have to be careful but I can use ordinary soap or handwash stuff now the odd time without being back to square one. I used to go through so much hand cream till I discovered this.

Once your hands are ok you might get away with switching to something cheaper, like Child's Farm.

I take extra care when cooking or baking to wash hands as few times as possible. So wash one - get all the dry ingredients ready and tins lined. If mixing butter and flour with fingertips do that. Then crack eggs and wash raw egg and butter/flour off all at same time.

Moo Goo MSM (something like that) is good, so is CeraVe lotion for dry skin. I like these as they are big bottles and not expensive for the amount. Apply every time you wash your hands apart from when you're going to handle food.

Make sure you are drying your hands well after every wash. Not drying my hands is as bad as washing them with Fairy Liquid or similar.

Never ever get any kind of household detergent on your hands. Don't use any SLS products for hair or body either.

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream... wonderfully healing x

I was going to suggest that. It works on the most surprising things: my friend swears by it for his psoriasis and it's really good on bad sunburn.

Another cream that really helps healing is hypercal cream. Nelsons make it but there are other makes too, some chemists sell it but you'd definitely find it in a health food shop.

A combination of Aveeno hand cream and Cetraben cream made all the difference to my poorly hands.

Good luck finding the answer op, there is something out there that will work

DS was having burning hands - one night he called me because they were red, sore, swollen and stinging, and we figured out that he'd just been to the toilet and washed his hands. The liquid soap we had was causing it, we switched to bar soap, and he's had no problems since - could you try switching out any soaps you use?

DS2 has a similar reaction to some wipes - his skin goes red and cracks and bleeds - we thought it was nappy rash until we switched out his wipes and he got better in less than 24 hours.

Have you tried Child Farm moisturiser? This works really well on contact dermatitis

Also if your hands are really bad and you can’t sleep: wrap in flannels that are soaked under a cold tap and wrung dry as possible and wrapped around your hands. Managed to let me sleep many a night

Bepanthen Nappy Care Ointment & Cotton Gloves overnight.

I guarantee it will work. Trust me

Ouch! That look super painful. I used to have really bad eczema on my hands when in care work. It ended in several trips to.my GP before I was given betnovate a 10% steroid cream the usual stuff just didn't help. The two best things I found were being absolutely religious bout wearing gloves when cleaning, cooking and washing up.

Also when I could I would slather my hands in aqueous cream and then wear the white cotton gloves. Literally coating them every in cream every hour at least through the day and then wearing the white gloves to help it sink in. I also wore them at night and did the same. I work the gloves annd creamed my hands at least once an hour every day. It was the thing that really cracked it along with the steroid cream overnight.

Don’t use liquid soap. Get oilatum soap bars for every sink you use. Will make a huge difference,

My daughter suffers with eczema and she has found Diprobase cream works really well on her hands.

My hands are like this. Recently I've had success by putting a layer of hydrocortisone cream first. Then a layer of nice after sun cream. It's very moisturising. I sometimes take an antihistamine to stop me scratching.