Just cuz I luv yooze guys

[SasquatchMan]

I have successfully "invented" a hand balm for myself, which seems to counter the effects of drywall mud, snowy tools, and the generally dry air here.  Mixing up beeswax and olive oil at about 1:3 in a saucepan and then pouring it into a flexible plastic container (like a cottage cheese tub) yields a little puck you can rub in your hands.  No more cracks.

[woodmills1]

Add some vitamin E oil for real medicine.

[RavioliKid]

Hey, that sounds great! I'll have to give it a try.

I don't mean to sound dumb, but where do you get beeswax? Do you have to talk to the bees, or do they have an agent?
 ;)

[Ed_K]

 Sounds like a great bullet lub :D.

[SasquatchMan]

Crafting stores have beeswax.  It's popular for making candles and things like that.  I bought a lump of wax "so pure it may contain bees or parts of bees".  Hope my balm doesn't sting me. :D

[Tom]

Find a Bee Keeper.  Most of them sell their bee wax to outfits that make foundation.   They don't generally care who they sell to.

[Paul_H]

I was thinking that the drywall compound would fill any cracks quite nicely ;)

[SasquatchMan]

 :D

It is my suspicion that no compound on earth could dry out hands worse than drywall mud does.  It dries on your skin, then just keeps sucking moisture... of course, if I didn't get so much slopped all over the place I'd probably be better off anyway!

[chet]

Da best stuff I have found fur yur hands is Bag Balm. They use the stuff ta keep dem moo cows happy. Some of dem farmers have purty ruff milkin' hands.

[SasquatchMan]

For some reason, Bag Balm can't be sold in Alberta.  Go figger. ???

[chet]

Dat explains why dar ain't no happy cows in Alberta.  :D

[SawInIt CA]

Add some Emu oil to it. The stuff makes drywall hand soft

[ScottAR]

How does one oil an emu?  ??? ;D  

[chet]

I tink sawInIt means bird poop.  :D

[Kevin]

I've tried the emu and didn't have much luck with it.
My fingers are taped most of the winter months.

[Don P]

Bag Balm is heavy duty stuff but too greasy for me, kinda odiferous too. I like Cornhuskers. Mortar is right up there on the list of giving me dishwater hands. One thing a mechanic told me, goop up your hands before you start so the grease isnt sucking into dry skin. You'll clean up prettier   ;D.

[Bro. Noble]

Are any of you old enough to remember the 'Fuller Brush Man' coming around and displaying his wares?  Carried this huge case of the most wonderful things-------so it seemed to a little fella that hardly ever went to town.  Mom bought carbolyc salve from him.  It came in yellow cans.  We always had one can for us and one for the cows.  It was about (maybe exactly) the same as bag balm.

[SawBilly]

I 'member the Fuller brush company, my mom used to get stuff there, dont 'member what.

Doc says to try Aveeno lotion. seems to work pretty well. just dont use anything made with water, that dries you out even more.

[Paul_H]

My parents always have "cow salve" in the medicine drawer,that they buy from Watkins.It is carbolyc based and it was what my Grandma used on her kids and cows.

We have a tin around here someplace too.

[etat]

It'll slick yer hair back too!  

[Jeff]

 :D :D

[burlman]

I can help out with a supply of bees wax, but I'm right out of those tiny Q-tips to clean their ears,

[pappy]

Dapper Dan  :D :D

[Frickman]

I got a friend down in the big city whose wife saw bag balm in one of those fancy mail order catalogs she gets, but you'd have to sell the cow to afford it. Well, I stopped by the feed mill to pick up a fresh can, and guess what. You can get a big can of bag balm, same kind of fancy tin, for less than the small can. Go figure. Anyway, he got alot of bonus points when he gave her a genuine can of bag balm straight from the country. She's a city girl and gets a kick out of those kind of things.

[etat]

Braver than me.  I'd be afraid to kick a city or country girl either!