Help! I have farmer's hands!

Avon, liquid glove. Works great.

I usually don't like to wear gloves but, as I'm getting older, my hands are starting to hurt more after pulling weeds. I find that the gloves help in that aspect. I've never been one to care if my hands have raspberry or blackberry stains on them, it all wears off eventually
My secret for cleaner hands? I don't have an autamatic dish washer. If I'm baking and cooking a lot then I have the dishpan of soapy water going all day, generally I wash em once a day and I'm in the dishwater for about 20 minutes. Any stains are usually gone by the time I'm done. In the winter I use the plastic gloves so my hands won't get so chapped when going outside during or right after dish washing.

Let me offer a neat recipe. I am a pharmacist, and worked in nursing homes. The doctors in SE Oklahoma started writing orders for "Dollar Store" cream. I had to ask what that meant.
A family member of a resident had made this lotion up and it is WONDERFUL.
At the dollar store, buy:
1- large tub of Vaseline
1- large bottle of Baby lotion
1- large jar of Vitamin E Cream.

Mix them together in a bowl in the kitchen, and store in tupperware. It whips up light and fluffy.
I bought my supplies at WalMart, and have given this to all of my relatives, ranch hands, etc.

It is used up quickly and they always ask for more. It feels wonderful.

I know you are looking to remove stains, but use this after they are clean. It will make them soft and smooth.

Have a great day, Kimberly :baby04:

I am lotioning up my hands all through the day- went thrugh about a gallon a year of KIss My Face, need a few more gallons.

I hate the feel of dry powder on my hands so I use a bread machine, and wear gloves to root around in the dirt or anytime I plant/ use roguh dirty handled tools. Once in a while I grab a few weeds withut gloves but then dirt comes off easy. Only have dirty nails when I wear a glove with a hole but I've patched most of those.

I also grease up (crisco or equivalent) and wear socks/gloves over hands /feet overnight when they get dry and tough/rough.

I have always been a pig. I was a female child who had dirty hands by 9 am even at school, and though I worked as a nurse for several years I refinished furniture, carved soapstone and wood, used noxious chemicals . . . and had hands that felt like leather. I would get terrible callouses I had to use sandpaper on.

Now that I'm just farming I am supposed to be covered with dirt. Aren't I??? I too can't work with gloves and was not good as a nurse at wearing them. My hands are like eyes. There are plenty of times I am ashamed or really surprised at how filthy I get by 9 am, but secretly . . . I love it!!!

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