Dry Hand Skin Repair Kits

You need:

1. A non-drying hand soap to use all day, every day, for hand washing.

2. A non-greasy, but moisturizing and protective, hand day cream to apply after washing throughout the day - as often as possible.

3. A deeply hydrating skin treatment at night that can soak into your thick and damaged hand skin to help it heal.

My Dry Hand Skin Repair Kits have everything you need, including:

Vermont Foaming Hand Soap:
A gentle and non-drying foaming hand soap. It's naturally rich in hydrating glycerin so that it cleans without stripping your skin's natural oils. It's certified organic and natural too.

Dr. Bailey Skin Care Dry Skin Hand Cream:
My hand cream is the best intensive, non-greasy hand cream for daily use and beats all other products I've tried. The trick is that it is non-greasy, which makes it a really good hand cream to use throughout your day after hand washing. This is an essential step for healing your hand skin and greasy hand creams are messy and impractical. Dr. Bailey Skin Care's Dry Skin Hand Cream hydrates and protects without greasy oils, so you can apply it to your hands all day long after washing and your hands will heal. The tube is also a good size to carry in your purse, to keep in a coat pocket (there's always a tube in my lab coat), to keep by the sink, etc. Put a tube by every sink at which you commonly wash your hands to make moisturizing convenient. This is how you heal your dry, chapped hands and brittle nails and keep your skin healthy all year long, no matter how hard you are on your hands.

Bag Balm and Cotton Gloves:
This combination is the secret for deeply hydrating night repair therapy for your dry, chapped, and damaged hand skin and for brittle and cracked fingernails too. The gloves are the best-fitting therapeutic cotton gloves with a comfortable, but snug, wristband to keep gloves on while you sleep. Bag Balm Ointment is unsurpassed for healing chapped hands. It's been a healing remedy for the cracked, hardworking hand skin of housewives and gardeners for over 100 years. Bag Balm is an American farm and folk remedy that's been around since 1899. It's a lanolin rich, slightly antibacterial ointment that was originally used to keep cows' udders from chapping during cold Vermont winters. The farmers who applied it found it healed their chapped hands and Bag Balm rapidly gained popularity for human use. Over the years, bag balm has become known as a multi-purpose wonder treatment for the entire family. Bag Balm is also used to relieve chapped, scratched, wind-burned or sunburned skin anywhere on the body (feet, heels, elbows, etc.) and splitting, brittle fingernails too. Applied to cuts, scrapes, or abrasions, it heals the skin quickly. For cracked fingertips I recommend adding this perfectly textured file to help keep your fingertip skin from becoming thick and cracking.

A Really Good Petite Fingertip File:
Fingertip fissures can be treated and prevented by gently filing excessive and dry skin. Think of your fingertips like leather, they get thick and dry with use. Filing off the thick skin helps you keep your fingertips properly moisturized, and this prevents cracking. This little file has just the right gentle sanding surface for fingertips. It is sturdier than an Emory board and just a little rougher than a diamond fingernail file - in short, it's just perfect for rough fingertips!

Directions for use:
Dr. Bailey's Skin Care For Chapped, Painful, Dry Hands and Fingertip Fissures
You can have soft, healthy hands all year round if you understand what causes chapped hands and what you need to do to treat and prevent them. Exposure to harsh chemicals, strong detergents, and extreme weather causes the loss of skin oils and pulls water out of your hand skin, causing them to chap, crack, and become painful. Once chapped, they are fragile. Continued exposure to these elements will escalate the chapping.

With careful hand washing, the use of gloves to protect your hands from weather and chemicals, and the regular application of the right moisturizers, your skin will heal.

1. Hand Washing
Apply Vermont Foaming Hand Soap to the dirty palm side of your hands only, unless the thinner more fragile skin on the back or your hands has also gotten dirty or come into contact with germs.

Use only very gentle soaps that rinse off easily such as Vermont Foaming Hand Soap.

2. Hand Moisturizing
During the day, apply a good, non-greasy hand cream such as Dr. Bailey Skin Care's Dry Skin Hand Cream immediately after toweling off from washing. Only apply your hand cream after washing because moisturizers work by trapping water that your hand skin soaked up when they were wet. Applying moisturizer to dry skin never helps your dry skin heal!

Apply Dr. Bailey's Hand Cream to your entire hand, but especially the back, which has thinner skin and is more likely to chap. Wipe off the excess cream from the palm side to keep from having a slippery grip and to keep it off things that you touch.

The most effective non-greasy hydrating ingredients are glycerin and lanolin. During the day use a product that is non-greasy such as our Dry Skin Hand Cream, which is glycerin rich. At night give your hands a deeply healing treatment with a Bag Balm, a heavy ointment that is loaded with lanolin to soften and heal rough dry skin. To do this, soak your hands in warm (not hot) water for five minutes, towel dry, then apply a generous layer Bag Balm. Put on the cotton gloves and leave them on overnight. (If you are wool allergic, use pure Shea butter instead of Bag Balm because lanolin comes from wool. Shea butter is available in the skin care section of your natural food store.)

3. Wear Protective Rubber or Latex Gloves
Protect your hands when you're in harsh weather or need to touch strong detergents or chemicals.

Because hand skin is thick, it can take up to six months for severely chapped hand skin to heal sufficiently and regain its barrier strength so be patient and keep using the gloves.

4. Care for fingertip fissures
Rough and cracked fingertip skin is like thick old, dry, cracked leather. You need to thin it down by filing it and soften it by drenching it in water-binding moisturizers.

Soak your hands in warm water for five minutes or more, then gently using my Petite Finger and Foot File to gently smooth your rough skin. Then apply Bag Balm daily to any cracks until they finally heal.

Care for the rest of your hands as outlined above.

Kit Product Ingredients: Dry Skin Hand Repair Kit

Vermont Foaming Hand Soap: 7 fl. oz. Saponified organic olive, coconut and jojoba oils, vegetable glycerin, organic aloe vera and rosemary extract.

Dry Skin Hand Cream: 3 oz. Purified Water, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Cetearyl Octanoate, Isopropyl Palmitate, Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate, Sorbitol, Panthenol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phenoxetol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Disodium EDTA.

Bag Balm: 1 oz. 8 Hydroxyquinoline Sulfate (0.3% in a Petrolatum, Lanolin Base)

Cotton Gloves: 1 pair

Petite Fingertip and Foot File: 1 7-inch 2-sided file