cimorene

It's a good thing I started the oil cleanse method (for face washing) a couple of years ago (and stopped last summer when we got stuck here bc everything was too hectic and there wasn't space) because now I have a bunch of jojoba oil and castor oil, and my hands started to crack from the washing last week until I started being more careful about rubbing gently. My regular moisturizers go on first, and then I dab the oil mixture on the irritated bits and torn places, around the cuticles, and into the fingertips, which are starting to roughen and hopefully will not callus, and massage it in. The higher the oil content of moisturizer, the more work it takes to wash off, but it also doesn't evaporate or wear off as quickly and is hence more protective. (Any sort of oil will work for this, but I'd rather save the olive oil for cooking and coconut oil is solid at room temperature right now, which makes it inconvenient.)

Speaking of moisturizers, we got a ton of them from MIL, and I saved most of them, but she had a fondness for the perfumed stuff from The Body Shop. Even their scents that I like I can pretty much only have on my legs and feet, let alone the hands - they're a guaranteed sneezing fit. Wax doesn't have this reaction, but she prefers the grapefruit scent so strongly that I predict it will be hard to get her to use up the others (I've found like four). I opened a tube labeled "hemp hand protector" the other day and it was so nauseatingly strong smelling that I had to use oil and soap to wash it off and then I had to change shirts. The stink was still noticeable in the air like 6 hours later. On the other hand, the almond-scented hand night cream or whatever it's called is comparatively bearable. Still strong enough to make me sneeze if I wore it on my hands in the daytime, though.