So could you keep your hand soft by wearing a glove full of vaseline?
I’m asking for a friend, well I say he’s a friend, he’s a dickhead.
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So could you keep your hand soft by wearing a glove full of vaseline?
I’m asking for a friend, well I say he’s a friend, he’s a dickhead.
For real though, my husband has eczema mostly concentrated on his hands and they get real torn up in the winter especially. If it gets really bad, we’ll get him a pack of latex gloves, he slathers on Vaseline and then I help him get the gloves on, and then he sleeps that way. It’s the only thing that manages to make a significant difference. It’s not comfy but sometimes his fingers bleed so we gotta do something.
In the netherlands doctors use Cetomacrogol 1000 (with 10-30% vaseline) or a variant or Bag Balm (less usesd) for people having eczema or psoriasis. It adds disinfectant and hydration properties. Works fantastic
Buy some Locobase cream of you have it where you live. By far the most effective thing for my Accutane hands when I was on that.
I used to do this too, until I found something more targeted. I also have a sensitivity to common lotion ingredients so can’t use them without making things worse. Unfortunately the petroleum jelly is never absorbed so without the gloves everything you touch gets greasy
damn, chasing aliens really took a toll
Unrelated, but you have any rabbits I could pet?
I love early-morning Of Mice and Men references. This is great.
Wonder if her husband ever applies it to her, just asking
It’s all fun and games until someone isn’t careful with an after-sex cigarette
It could really rekindle the old feelings
Can enough friction ignite vaseline?
What’s the name of that Talking Heads compilation?
Sand In The Vaseline.
What’s the name of that Flaming Lips song?
She Don’t Use Jelly
(She uses vaseline)
Ice Cube - No Vaseline
yesman@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That thing about being anti-bacterial is true. By simply being a barrier that microbes (and dirt, and water) can’t penetrate. For short term wound treatment, petroleum jelly is an excellent barrier for an open wound that’s not bleeding. Bandages inundated with it can keep a wound clean in the roughest conditions.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Get a jar or tube today!
Tedesche@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It comes in jars?! And in tubes?!
I’m gettin’ one!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you put it on a burn it holds in heat and hospitals use a wire brush to scrub it out of burns.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A WHAT-Brush?