Dry, splitting, cracking, bleeding finger tips

[unknown-user]

Thanks for the advice.

[unknown-user]

Patricia,

I have used both Polysporin and Neosporin with excellent results.

[unknown-user]

Unfortunately, taking Prednisone is not an option at this point.

[Briggsie B. Peawiggle]

I have cracking callouses on my heel that I sometimes have to glue together so they will heal. I use nail glue for that….weird but it works….but one thing that really REALLY helps is this:

[Briggsie B. Peawiggle]

Oh….Oops….www.jamarklabs.com or call 888-252-6275

[Leigh Griffith]

The primary ingredient in Bag Balm is lanolin. I think there is some
sort of antibiotic in it as well, camphor, mint, etc. It does smell a
bit mediciney. I haven’t used it since we were milking goats and
raising chickens, rabbits and an organic garden, but it was a life
saver back then! I was amazed and appalled when department stores
started carrying those teeny cans of it for $3.00 or $4.00 each. We
used to buy it in a can that was about a 3 1/2″ cube for about $2.50 at
the local farmer’s co-op. Any feed store should have it. I should pick
up some more!

I just went to their website and got this info:
Bag Balm is available at drug stores, farm stores, pet stores, hardware stores, feed stores, and tack shops.

If unavailable, order direct:

Dairy Association Co, Inc.

P. O. Box 145

Lyndonville, VT 05851

800-232-3610 | 802-626-3433 (fax)

http://www.bagbalm.com
Leigh
p.s. We used to take a bout 1/4cup and melt it into paraffin to make Bag Balm candles in the empty cans as Christmas gifts!

[Mary Ellen Fitzgerald]

I have a friend with the same problem, and in addition to everything else mentioned, she added humidification to her apartment, keeping it at 50%, with various fountains and humidifiers, and her problem was essentially solved.

[unknown-user]

My druggist carries a generic version called moisture balm. The other ingredient besides petroleum jelly and lanolin is hydroquinoline sulfate. The smell is from the lanolin. Hydroquinoline sulfate has a certain effect, I don’t remember what, but you can search it and find information.

One more suggestion for the fellow with the chemical exposure and severe skin problems is to try clay or mud packs on your skin. It draws out whatever is in there, and draws to the surface the natural moisturizers and compounds in your deep skin.

[Leigh Griffith]

“The smell is from the lanolin.”
Actually, the mediciney smell in Bag Balm is not from the lanolin. I
have a large tub of straight lanolin I use in the winter for my lips
and hands, and it has a very mild wooly smell (of course). The smell I
am refering to is more like a cross between camphor and mint. It is
fairly strong and objectionable to some folks, so I thought I would
warn about that.

The clay packs, etc. can be found in the form of various “masks” and
are a good idea, you just don’t want to use them too often or they may
be even more drying.

[unknown-user]

The moisture balm I use doesn’t have that kind of scent. It has the wolly scent mixed with that of vaseline. I don’t notice any other. Perhaps it has less hydroquinoline sulfate in it.

[Denise Krasicki]

Someone noted bag balm…. another similar product is Udder Balm, just like cow udders’s which is what it was orginally made for when it was cold and dry and they had the same problem due to milking machines.

[unknown-user]

Bag Balm/Udder Balm and similar products are also easily available at quilt or sewing centers. Quilters also suffer from this malady.

[Leigh Griffith]

…And when you are a quilter who paints a lot of her own fabric (also very hard on the hands, especially when using salt) and plays the harp…

[unknown-user]

A possible solution to the problem:

My husband and several members of his family suffer from this painful problem. No one is a harpist, however.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

I believe the hydroquinoline sulfate is an antiseptic, so the lanolin is the effective ingredient.

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