Hands flaking and getting wrinkled quickly when washing

mrcheez

My hands have recently started getting wrinkly after approx 30 seconds while having a shower. The sort of level of wrinkling you would imagine after submerging them in water for 5 minutes!

I was abroad last week and the water was very hard so it possibly triggered this as it was never this bad before.

After washing my hands normally the skin is getting pretty flaky.

What I'm doing now is regularly applying SOS hand concentrate moisturiser that you can get in Lidl (like Neutrogena). Is it worth getting a Hydrocortisone or possibly use Emulsifying Ointment instead of hand soap when washing hands?

raemie10

mrcheez wrote: »

My hands have recently started getting wrinkly after approx 30 seconds while having a shower. The sort of level of wrinkling you would imagine after submerging them in water for 5 minutes!

I was abroad last week and the water was very hard so it possibly triggered this as it was never this bad before.

After washing my hands normally the skin is getting pretty flaky.

What I'm doing now is regularly applying SOS hand concentrate moisturiser that you can get in Lidl (like Neutrogena). Is it worth getting a Hydrocortisone or possibly use Emulsifying Ointment instead of hand soap when washing hands?

There is no hand cream on the market that will work any better than normal oil..

Here's a super easy (and cheap) tip.

Warm some olive oil/coconut/avocado etc, add some (freshly grounded if possible) black pepper and massage into your hands. Pop on some pure cotton gloves/socks and go to bed.. do this as many nights as you need until your mitts are back to normal

mrcheez

I've read about the cotton gloves thing, what purpose do they exactly serve?

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When your skin is warm the oil can penetrate more, also, it's keeping the oil from being wiped off.

mrcheez

It seems to not be as bad today. I was at a water park all day about 6 days ago while abroad, and the water would have been highly chlorinated.

I'm wondering if it was an allergic reaction to the chlorine, although I've never had this problem before as I used to swim in pools all the time (albeit last time was about 3 years ago)

LinF

mrcheez wrote: »

It seems to not be as bad today. I was at a water park all day about 6 days ago while abroad, and the water would have been highly chlorinated.

I'm wondering if it was an allergic reaction to the chlorine, although I've never had this problem before as I used to swim in pools all the time (albeit last time was about 3 years ago)

It could be. I have started using Vit E Oil (bought from Naissance/Amazon.co.uk) on my hands morning and night as a moisturiser. Very good results so far and very reasonably priced, a little goes a very long way.

mrcheez

The Cien SOS Hand cream from Lidl and cotton gloves seems to have sorted it, but I definitely think it was a reaction to chlorine.