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[brin_bellway]

[mild cw: illness]


Something I haven't yet seen any preparation guides include:

Moisturiser!

Take it from a food-service worker: frequent hand-washing does a *number* on your skin. Not only is dry skin unpleasant, if your skin gets dry enough it can actually crack, and now you've got a bunch of tiny wounds on your hands. Needless to say, tiny wounds on your hands are very bad if you're aiming to keep germs out.

Personally, I buy the big (one-litre, I think) bottles of Loblaws house brand. I use it a minimum of once a day (at bedtime, so that I'm not touching much else until it's had a chance to absorb), but if it's a *very* hand-washy day I'll do it two or three times, with a particularly liberal application at bedtime.

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

Oh boy it hadn't even occured to me that (whatever bullshit is fucking up the skin on my hands, including creating aforementioned tiny wounds) was a contagion factor. Guess I need to get gloves or something. Or see a doctor. But that's so much work.

(I *think* bullshit is the cold weather fucking up my skin, hence it happening pretty much entirely on the hand that gets left out in the weather to hold my bag in place, so mosturiser sounds like a good idea anyway)

[brin_bellway]

Winter tends to be like that, yeah. I use hand moisturiser year-round, but I have to up the dose significantly in winter.

I would definitely give moisturiser a try: you might find that that alone is enough to fix your problem.