Dry and chapped hands

Treat dry, cracked areas specifically

Cracks often form on the hands, which can be extremely painful even with the slightest touch. This can be prevented in a targeted manner, or alternatively treated accordingly so that no infections can develop.

• If you suffer from extremely chapped and dry hands, which also develop dry and painful non-bleeding wounds, especially in winter, In any case, you should treat the skin correctly so that no germs or bacteria settle and the skin status even further worsen.
• In winter or during the cold season, i.e. in autumn, you should definitely wear gloves, with mittens being ideal, as they store the heat better. This prevents the dry, cracked hands from cooling down.
• Individual painful and deep cracks in the hands of the skin can be covered with plasters during the day. So that healing takes place, you should clean the small cotton cloth of the plaster with pure aloe vera gel (min. 90% natural) and rub in a wound and healing ointment that contains the active ingredient dexpanthenol. Prepared in this way, the antibiotic agents of the medicinal plant aloe and the healing agents of the penetrate Skin care cream under the plaster into the skin so that the wound heals within a few hours begins.
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• In addition, the plaster protects against further tearing of the dry, cracked areas on the hands, as well as against the penetration of dirt or bacteria.


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• To wash your hands, use curd soap without additives, as this soap has very good properties that do not attack the important protective acid mantle of dry and chapped hands. In addition, it is very cheap to get in pharmacies and drug stores.

Take care of your hands gently again

With further measures, means and care products you can take care of your chapped and dry hands again.

• When doing housework, especially when cleaning with household cleaners, you should always wear household or rubber gloves so that further dehydration can be effectively prevented.
• A bath with a peeling consisting of jojoba oil and sugar is ideal for removing keratinized cells from very dry skin. To do this, carefully rub the mixture into your hands in a bowl and then simply wash them off with cold water so that the fat in the oil can work deep in the skin. You may also wear cotton gloves at night so that the oil is not rubbed off the skin.
• A mixture of jojoba oil and tea tree oil also works wonders for treating chapped and dry hands. Mix a few drops of each of the oils and carefully rub into the cracks and deep cracks so that healing can take place.
• With a tannic acid powder from the pharmacy, you can restore the protective acid layer of cracked and dry skin on your hands. In this way, the healthy skin is exposed, which you should of course care for afterwards with the measures and means mentioned above.
• Milking fat without additives can be used to thickly cream your hands. After that, you should wear cotton gloves again, especially at night, so that during the While sleeping, the care substances can penetrate deep into the skin, so that a beneficial healing process can take place.

Use in everyday life when extremely cracked and dry skin a fatty cream on the hands several times a day so that the skin's resistance is increased while healing can take place at the same time. You should carefully work the care cream into deep dry cracks, a plaster "seals" the wound dressing.