Best hand cream for lambing hands

[Greythundercloudys]

My hands get in a terrible state when lambing , what's the best hand cream to try and help them.?

 

[Sheep92]

My father takes them fish oil tabs every morning and his hands never bother him, II'v begun to do the same and my hands are fine so far I've 250 odd lambed, they used to be in shite other years

 

[Timbo]

I use E45

 

[AftonShepherd]

Not much more lambed today... nothing in the TexX's today. There were 3 pairs in the hill ewes and a single. 2 more pair in the other commercials and 3 or 4 singles...

Weather has been nice today - except a really heavy (but very warm) downpour at 6pm as I was doing last rounds.


Not sure if any of you remember, but last lambing I bought a tub of this stuff
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I bought it well into lambing I think, and it seemed good at the time but I don't think I got full benefit from it. I do remember wondering if I had been sucked in by good advertising.

I suffer with the backs of my hands and wrists drying out quite badly at lambing - just the constant wet-dry and blood/cleanings stuck on them and wind chill on the bike with sleeves rolled up in all weather which all just sucks the natural moisture from your skin. They then get itchy and I scratch, they bleed and it becomes a vicious circle...
I had Attrixo hand cream and E45 lotion I've used before and both were OK - Attrixo the better of the 2 - but skin still took a beating.

This year since the first day of lambing I've used the O'Keeffe's, once a day before going to bed. Working it into my hands wrists and halfway up to my elbows... this stuff isn't OK. It's bloody good!! My hands are usually getting in a mess by now but they are still in perfect condition!

Not sure if I'm using a bit too much or its just how the cream is... but once it's absorbed in and dry, I can still feel it on my skin. It doesn't rub off onto bed sheets or anything - that I've noticed! and I can still feel it there on my hands in the morning. But if that's how it works I'm not complaining!

Can't recommend it highly enough if any of you suffer like I do with dry or cracking skin


(sorry @primmiemoo no chin, just my hand for you to look at this time)

I'm with Nithsdale on this one!

 

[Al R]

I'm with Nithsdale on this one!

I’ve got O’keefe’s working hands like @Nithsdale Farmer but havnt used it much, sent the misses to get udder mint cream but she came back with Nettex Udder Cream instead, big 1kg pot, after a week of lambing I put this on twice a day for 4/5 days and havnt had to put it on since and my hands aren’t burning anymore.

 

[Becs]

I used to suffer with dry, cracked hands but now I just try and wear latex gloves as much as possible handling lambs etc. I just fill my pockets with them so I've got some all the time in the shed

 

[HarryB97]

O'Keefes is the best i've ever used as well as Lanolin. The key is little and often

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The end

 

[Andrew1983]

Think it’s something like Norwegian formula skin cream I use when hacks get bad, usually put it on at night, hands feel almost human again in morning.

Does anyone else take a reaction to lambing/calving fluids? My hands/forearms get very itchy, seems to wear off as season goes on but at the first few I’m almost considering getting rid of stock! Only seems to have started on me the last few years.

 

[spin cycle]

ectoplasm...cures everything

 

[abitdaft]

Olive oil or udder cream here.

 

[M-J-G]

I'm with Nithsdale on this one!

It is pretty good.

 

[steveR]

Use a good barrier cream at the start of the day and again at lunchtime.... THEN, use the creams other mention.

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, Dermashield is brilliant. I've used it since it first launched and I bought my first can at the Royal Welsh off the guy who developed it back in the early 90s. 500ml aerosol can goes a long way and is well worth the modest investment. Tax deductible too...

It dries non greasy in about 2 mins and the protection it gives is truly impressive. I emailed a complaint several years ago about the formulation of one batch I felt was a little more greasy than normal, and had the Boss man call me and get the details off me on the batch etc, then sent me replacement cans! Then got an emailed apology and an explanation of the variation at that time. Cracking service I thought.

 

[Filthyfarmer]

 

[Nithsdale]

I'm with Nithsdale on this one!

I did wonder how I was quoted in this thread



O'Keeffe's Working Hands is easily the best stuff I've ever used - and I've tried most things, except for @Northeastfarmer udder cream, hadn't heard of that one before

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I did wonder how I was quoted in this thread



O'Keeffe's Working Hands is easily the best stuff I've ever used - and I've tried most things, except for @Northeastfarmer udder cream, hadn't heard of that one before

Get some off amazon and see what you think...big tub lasts ages

 

[abitdaft]

I did wonder how I was quoted in this thread



O'Keeffe's Working Hands is easily the best stuff I've ever used - and I've tried most things, except for @Northeastfarmer udder cream, hadn't heard of that one before

Regarding udder cream, when my daughter was a baby she had terrible nappy rash due to teething, my FIL slapped the biggest tub of cream you have ever seen in front of me ( this same tub must have been on the go since the 50'S, think 22k mineral tub size, I said no way on earth was I putting anything like that on my child! Cue a few hours later, screaming daughter with a red raw posterior and I was slathering it on, by morning you would not have been able to tell there had been a rash, and when I say rash I mean bleeding!

 

[Nithsdale]

Get some off amazon and see what you think...big tub lasts ages

If I get worked through the O'Keeffe's I might give it a try .. but that little tub (96g - randomly) is lasting a long time as is. You need very little to do both hands and wrists

 

[neilo]

Use a good barrier cream at the start of the day and again at lunchtime.... THEN, use the creams other mention.

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, Dermashield is brilliant. I've used it since it first launched and I bought my first can at the Royal Welsh off the guy who developed it back in the early 90s. 500ml aerosol can goes a long way and is well worth the modest investment. Tax deductible too...

It dries non greasy in about 2 mins and the protection it gives is truly impressive. I emailed a complaint several years ago about the formulation of one batch I felt was a little more greasy than normal, and had the Boss man call me and get the details off me on the batch etc, then sent me replacement cans! Then got an emailed apology and an explanation of the variation at that time. Cracking service I thought.

I can’t like this enough. Far better to stop the cracks appearing in the first place, than to try and make them bearable after.
I’ve been using Dermashield for many years now. It’s so good as a barrier, it even stops the smell of rotten lambs getting into your skin pores, which as every experienced shepherd knows, will take days to get out later.
Marvellous stuff. During lambing I always have a can in the kitchen to apply before I go out, and another can in the lambing shed to ‘top up’ if I wash my hands several times outside.

 

[abitdaft]

I can’t like this enough. Far better to stop the cracks appearing in the first place, than to try and make them bearable after.
I’ve been using Dermashield for many years now. It’s so good as a barrier, it even stops the smell of rotten lambs getting into your skin pores, which as every experienced shepherd knows, will take days to get out later.
Marvellous stuff. During lambing I always have a can in the kitchen to apply before I go out, and another can in the lambing shed to ‘top up’ if I wash my hands several times outside.

One tip on rotten lamb smell. Cold water. Hot water opens the pores and let's the rankness in. Scrub with the soap before letting water anywhere near you first.