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Originally Posted by Gemme
My skin on my pinkie knuckle cracking from the cold and dry air. Blech. 
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Carmex lip balm does WONDERS for chapped and sore hands, elbows and heals!! WONDERS! Better than ANY lotion I have ever used. My mom uses it on her thumbs and palms where she has eczema and she really sees/feels a difference. It makes the skin supple & keeps it from cracking. Then, when a friend had really chapped skin on her hands so bad they would crack & bleed (she worked on her poultry farm in the nasty cold & wet weather), we gave her a bag of the little jars of Carmex...she started using it daily like lotion and within a week her skin had improved considerably. Plus, if she used it before going outside to work, it gave her hands a barrier to the cold air. I used it often when I worked in cold warehouses and my hands would get very raw... LOVE IT!! (but it does burn just a tad when you apply it to chapped/cracked skin...but it soon becomes soothing.) A trick I learned was to apply it after a warm bath before bed and wear gloves or socks for a short time to allow it to soak in.
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