🍀Are your hands okay? --- "Frequent care" will change the future of your hands

🍀Do you think that rough hands are "unavoidable"?

Before you know it, your hands are dry.

Your fingertips are cracked and painful.

When you bend your fingers, they crack with a sharp sting.

Even if you apply hand cream, they go right back to how they were...

Are you giving up on that"roughness",

"It's unavoidable because I do a lot of water work"

"It's unavoidable because I'm not as young as I used to be"

—are you just accepting it like that?

But in fact, rough hands area skin problem that can be sufficiently prevented and improved by continuing frequent care.

🍀Hands are your hardest-working body part

Hands are always

washing, touching, holding, and supporting.

They work all day long without a break.

Furthermore,

hand washing, alcohol disinfection, water work, UV rays...



Hands are always on the front lines of external irritation.
They are exposed to irritation and damage all day long.



Without you even realizing it, damage is accumulating.

🍀Did you know? The "weak points" of the skin on your hands

The skin on your hands is a little different from your face or other parts of your body.

The skin on your hands has these characteristics:

🌱The backs of the hands have very few sebaceous glands

🌱The palms have no sebaceous glands

🌱They dry out easily and struggle to retain moisture

🌱The stratum corneum is thick and prone to becoming stiff

In other words,they are a part of the body that is inherently weak at retaining moisture and has a structure that easily becomes rough if left alone.

Therefore, repeated hand washing and disinfection quickly strip away moisture, leading to dryness and rough skin.

🍀Common hand concerns

When damage to your hands accumulates, these types of problems become more likely to occur.

⚡️Dryness

⚡️Cracked skin

⚡️Itching

⚡️Hardened skin

⚡️Eczema-like bumps

After the age of 50, your recovery ability slows down, making it easier to feel that things are "harder to heal."

In particular, people who frequently come into contact with water or chemicals, such as hairdressers, nurses, and those who cook, tend to have chronic rough hands as an occupational hazard.

🍀A necessary mindset for the era of hand washing and disinfection

Hand washing and disinfection are essential for infection control.
That is precisely why you need "habits to prevent roughness".


When people think of hand care, they often think of

"applying hand cream," but in reality, that alone is not enough.

What is important is a habit that does not strip moisture from your hands.

Things to be careful about when washing hands

✅Do not use hot water (lukewarm water is the standard)

✅Gently and thoroughly wipe off moisture


If moisture remains on your hands, it will also strip away the skin's natural moisture as it evaporates.

After wiping them dry, apply hand cream immediately.
This "immediately" is very important for protecting the future of your hands.

🍀Turn dishwashing into "hand treatment time"

In your busy daily life, I recommend hand treatment while doing the dishes.

It's easy to do.

1. Apply hand cream to dry hands

2. Put on disposable gloves

3. Put rubber gloves on over them and wash the dishes

4. When finished, wipe off lightly and blend in the rest



The warm water steams your hands, increasing the absorption of the cream and making the moisturizing effect last longer.

It's great that you can turn your usual housework into care
without having to do "anything special."

"Care you can continue" is the most effective.

Having said that,

I know, but I'm too busy to put on gloves every single time!!

I'm sure there are people who feel that way.

When I was an esthetician, rough hands were a matter of life and death for me. "Hangnails" were not allowed.
Because I would scratch the customer's skin.

Since that time, what I have been doing and still do today is...

✅ Put hand cream into small containers and place them everywhere around the house.

✅ Put them in the pockets of my clothes or apron.

✅ Put them in a place in my bag where I can "take them out immediately."

I apply it frequently, at least to the parts of my fingertips that get rough easily.

The important thing is to be able to take care of them whenever you notice. It only takes a few seconds.

If you dislike the sticky feeling of cream, please look for something that suits you, such as a light gel type.

The only slightly troublesome part is dividing it into smaller containers, but after that, care becomes much easier.

Thanks to that, even while providing nursing care, my hands were almost always fine.

🍀Hands are also a sign from inside the body

Swelling and dryness in the hands are also signs from the body.



When your hands are prone to swelling or your fingers are hard to bend, that is a sign that your body's water metabolism is stagnant.



When the kidneys are tired, excess water that cannot be processed tends to accumulate in the extremities such as the hands and feet.

Also,when your hands are dry and rough, doesn't your hair also feel dry?

That might be a sign of dehydration throughout your entire body.




When your hands start to get rough, try paying attention to the condition of your hair and skin, as well as your body's fatigue.

🍀Hands are important sensors that feel temperature

The fact that your hands and feet get cold easily is actually an important function to protect your body.

Hands play the role of sensors that detect outside air temperature and regulate body temperature.

The fact that your hands and feet get cold easily is proof that your body is facing the outside air and "working properly."

Think of it that way, and when you feel cold, please warm your body and take care of yourself.

Your hands work for you every day without a single complaint.

That is exactly why you should take the time to care for them.

🍀Frequent care protects the future of your hands

Once hand roughness becomes severe, it is difficult to heal and tends to recur.

That is why frequent care before it gets worse is more important than anything else.

You don't have to do anything special.

✅ Apply cream after washing your hands

✅ Apply a layer before and after doing water-related chores

✅ Be conscious of hydration from within your body as well

These small, consistent efforts will cultivate "healthy, beautiful hands that are resistant to roughness" months and years from now.

Your hands have been working hard every day for your family, for your job, and for yourself.

That is why, starting today, please show your hands a little bit of kindness.

By continuing frequent care, you can create hands you can be confident in,
even as you age.

Thank you for reading until the end.