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What you need:

• Sand sheet file
• olive oil
• Concentrated sage leaf tea
• Work gloves as required

Our hands are usually the mirror of ourselves. They say a lot about you. Do you work a lot or little, are you a mechanic or a banker. Are you a simple person or particularly rich.

Cracked hands do not have to be

• So that you don't fall into one of the many clichés, you should of course take care of your hands regularly. Anyone can do that, whether poor or rich, whether banker or mechanic. Nobody has to walk around with dirty hands or calluses and cracks.
• Cracks often form from heavy or hard work. To protect your hands, the body excessively much Cornea in particularly stressed areas and you have calluses.
• Working with adhesives or other chemical agents also leads to calluses, yours skin just want to protect yourself.
• Sometimes the calluses are so cracked that dirt can hold onto them well. Despite being washed with soap, your fingers are black and seemingly dirty. But that doesn't have to be the case either.


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Avoid calluses on stressed skin areas

1. If you tend to crack, you should wear work gloves for particularly strenuous work. They protect your sensitive skin in advance.
2. If you cannot wear gloves for a variety of reasons, use a protective skin paste. Apply this protective skin paste to your hands in the morning after getting up and washing your hands. It protects your hands like an invisible glove. If you then start a job that you know is particularly stressful for your hands, apply some more cream to your hands before starting the activity.
3. When you have finished working, wash your hands with water and protective skin soap. Dry your hands and put the invisible glove back on.
4. If you have had cracks on your hands for a long time, you can file and smooth them off with a sand leaf file. Chapped skin must always be kept supple.
5. It is always advisable to wear gloves when working with chemical agents. A cotton glove may be enough for less stressful materials, you won't sweat in them and your hands are protected.
6. For a quick remedy, do a hand bath in the evening from an extract of sage leaf tea and olive oil. Put your hands in the hand bath for 20 minutes and they will become soft and supple. Small cracks heal better thanks to the anti-inflammatory properties of the sage.
7. You can get professional help in a nail salon. The specialist working there can then place your hands in a paraffin bath, which makes your hands feel and look like new afterwards.