r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Fratzenfresse • 19h ago

Waffle house isnt made of waffles my hands do this every winter

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It doesn’t hurt but it’s annoying as hell

YES I MOISTURIZE

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u/TacetAbbadon 19h ago

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u/Gobbyer 18h ago

I usually get so bad cracks to my hands in winter, that they literally rip open like volcanic fissures if they stretch. And this shit still works lol.

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 17h ago

This stuff works against this? Holy crap, I need that!

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u/creamersrealm 17h ago

Working Hands will fix that in about 2-3 days flat. It happens to me every winter.

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 17h ago

Already ordered it haha

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u/Gazebu 14h ago

My hands get this bad and worse every winter. It also helps to apply moisturizer, then Vaseline, then put cotton gloves on at night before bed to keep everything on. The Vaseline helps seal in moisture. I can't use working hands but if you can still find it, my favorite moisturizer was the udder cream with the cow print bottle. I don't remember the name off hand.

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u/Secret_Beekeeper 5h ago

Youre gonna be amazed at how quickly your hands are healed by this cream.

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u/May_of_Teck 9h ago

WHY doesn’t it work for me?? We have it out on the counter at work. My hands cracked and bled all through the summer 😭

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u/Celitha11 16h ago

Be warned, don't put it on your bare dry hands. What I had to do is get my hands damp with water and THEN put this on. What it does is trap in the moisture. If you use it on already dry and chapped skin it will make it worse. Speaking from experience lol.

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u/Gazebu 14h ago

Is it not just me that it burns horribly when my skin is cracked?

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u/NeedsItRough 11h ago

Yes!! I just commented about this!

I think I'm allergic to an ingredient or something because it did absolutely nothing positive for my hands, only made them bright red and burning on top of the already dry, cracked, and bleeding skin

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u/Gazebu 11h ago

It causes the same thing for me!

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u/Self-described 13h ago

It stings so bad!

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u/Celitha11 9h ago

Try the water trick next time, it helps so much!

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u/ImaginationPlus3808 17h ago

Wear gloves outside, as much as you can. Don’t need to be big thick ski gloves. But something to protect from the dry air, elements.

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u/Viitori 16h ago

This was what my hand looked like at work on monday. Bought a new jar of the stuff, applied it twice at work, a couple times yesterday. All healed today.

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u/PenLegitimate7064 16h ago

My hands looked like that when I was a nurse and washing my hands many, many, many times a day. Working hands is the only thing that helped.

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u/cybah 16h ago

Definitely this. This is similar to my knucks in the winter. Working hands is the only thing that works well AND overnight. I slather some on an hour or so before bed. Tap it off with some tissue to get the big chunks and go to bed. I'll wake up in the morning with it all smooth.

Also second the comment about trying not to be outside in cold weather without gloves. I notice this gets far worse when I do that than if I wear gloves all the time.

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 16h ago

Yeah, I already try to wear gloves, but even then it's awful. Already ordered the ointment, so hope it fixes it.

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u/NeedsItRough 11h ago

Obviously it varies from person to person, I must have some sort of allergy to one of the ingredients because it only made my hands worse.

Went from dry, cracked, and bleeding to bright red, painful, dry, cracked, and bleeding.

Seems to work for everyone else in the world though 😂