I don’t mind being a dude and caring about moisturizing our skin.
- When I was a kid, neither of our folks ever stocked the apartment with hand lotion for our siblings and I, especially while every single one of us were in the relentlessly dry Winter time months.
The skin on our hands would divide in several places and then turn to calluses. I asked a bestie once what I could do about our “rough feeling” fingers that she’d gently criticize, and she said it was as easy as using hand lotion every single day before leaving the house. That day I went out and purchased a tub of Gold Bond Ultra Healing Hand Lotion and I was in heaven. Now that I’ve been using it for many years, I always have soft and smooth skin that doesn’t get so dried out that it cracks and tears into small slits that bleed after so much abuse. However, even the Winter time seasons are a test for our dried out skin, even with applications of hand lotion every single day. Occasionally the air humidity levels outside drops down below 30% and you can really think it on your skin. It provides me with an uncomfortable dry cough as well. The only way I can get any respite at an apartment with humidity being so low is by using a humidifier while every one of us were in the Winter months. You have to be careful with humidifiers though, as you don’t want your humidity levels to go above 50% if you can control it. That’s why I use a humidity meter for when I have the humidifier on so I suppose when to turn it off. Failing to follow these directions could end up in toxic mold growth inside your home.