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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2010-12-02 10:27 am

It rubs the lotion on its skin

Darlings, Darlings. My poor hands, they are dry and the skin is in great need of moisturisation.

What little credibility I may have had has just disappeared. I have bought some kind of lotion or unguent from Boots to plaster on my poor, dry paws in an attempt to stop them rustling like empty crisp packets when I make a fist. Apparently I have sensitive dry skin. That delicate aroma of Christ knows what, is something that is apparently hypoallergenic, whatever that means.

Seriously, though, the skin on my hands is so dry you could almost strike a match on my knuckles and I have taken the drastic step of buying this bloody stuff before the skin cracks and I ooze everywhere. So I can live with the lack of credibility. The irony, of course, is that anyone who trawls back through this journal four of five years will read about me grumbling about how greasy my hands always were. Well, I’ve solved that problem by going too far in the other direction. How to strike a happy medium, eh?

The desiccating aspects of the current weather aren’t lost to me, either. With temperatures sitting at or below zero for the next few days and a permanent wind blowing in from the east, well, what’s a chap to do?

Kissy kissy, mwah mwah.

[identity profile] snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
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I can't recommend this stuff strongly enough. It doesn't smell of anything and it's the best moisturiser I've ever used.

[identity profile] ellefurtle.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
All you need now is your hand cream in a pump action bottle on your desk then you can be like the other girls!

[identity profile] changeling72.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
I use moisturiser all the time. But I guess I'm not a good example of masculinity..?

[identity profile] ladkyis.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
a pump action bottle oooooh. I use my eczema cream.

[identity profile] littleonionz.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Norwegian Formula is pretty gud stuff, other than what you get from the docs. (Lots of pourly cracked paws in this house during wintertide)

And anyway, only silly or sick animals fail to adequately groom themselves. Consider yourself a very sensible bear.

[identity profile] fractalgeek.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Norwegian Fishermen's Formula". THAT sounds manly.... :-)

[identity profile] fencingsculptor.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Woooooa Dude !!!

It's like you've turned all chick !!!

As a bloke you have one choice and one choice only:

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream (Unscented)



Used by the gnarliest Mountaineers and explorers, it's the only acceptable hand cream for blokes.

Two small concentrated tubes lasted me a 4 week trek in the Himalayas, in the winter, at -30c and the four subsequent years.

Dispense with your delicate aroma, buy a tube.


To non-scratchycracky paws

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"...I'm a hand model, mama. A finger jockey. We don't think the same as the face and body boys. We're a different breed.'

[identity profile] fredlums.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Boots Protect and Perfect - beautiful stuff that doesn't pong although I can't testify as to the masculinity of this particular product!

[identity profile] karinmollberg.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That´s alright. Some of us girls shave too, you know! Keep it up.

[identity profile] jfs.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The Pound Shop on the ground floor in the Exchange does coconut oil hand and nail moisturiser for a pound a go - it's great stuff.