over the last few days i've been introduced to three women who have nothing in common but one thing:
i shake their hand and i am surprised and aghast at how dry and wrinkly their skin feels.
these three women are all in their late 30s to mid-40s, and i met them in a variety of situations... both business and recreation. none of them work in a coal mine or anything obvious like that. a couple of them were mothers. one was a teacher. different situations, different lifestyles... but all three were in desperate need of lotion.
i mean, even the men i've met lately have softer skin than these women. these ladies' hands were shockingly coarse... unusual enough to lodge in my memory for days.
is this an epidemic of some sort? or does everyone --but me, apparently-- have chapped hands and i've just been oblivious until now?
Posted by xta at April 26, 2005 11:53 PM | TrackBackIt's an aging thing. My hands used to look great, but SUDDENLY I look down and they are starting to look a little wrinkly and the knuckles are getting dry and I find my hands ACHE sometimes from being dry.
I have yet to find the moisturize that makes any sort of difference long term, despite all of their claims!
Christa, you apparently are a carrier for a disease that makes another's hands become dry and chapped. As a public health measure, *please* stop shaking hands! ;)
Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas at April 27, 2005 06:22 PMhar har, joe. har har. :-)
i guess i should plug my favorite lotion for gidge and others... it's nutrogena's "hand cream". the tube says, "just a dab heals dry skin".
http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=17010
it totally changed my life. i cannot live without it.
Posted by: christa at April 28, 2005 10:15 AMIf we're talkin' cream, you gotta check out Ahava's Advanced Hand Cream. Just a dab will do ya. Ahava in Hebrew means love. Check out www.ahava.com .
Posted by: John Boy at April 28, 2005 12:19 PMmothers, teachers.... we're talking about the people of the world who wash their hands more than anyone else. hopefully, anyway...
Posted by: robdob at May 2, 2005 11:26 AMI work as a landscape gardener, and I am proud of my big,strong, hard, rough hands. They earn my living for me. My boyfriend thinks they are lovely hands.
Posted by: Maria at November 16, 2005 04:28 AMlately my hands have been rough too...ever since I had the waiter job at TGIF...I think it's something in the water.
Posted by: Billy at November 20, 2006 06:20 PM