What to use for cracking, bleeding hands in the field.

[S-3 ranch]

Udder Butter. They might have changed the packaging. Used to get it at the drug store in a tin. Now I only see a tube.

I couldn't leave it at the clubhouse. My fellow sportsmen kept stealing it. I suspect most of them had never had cracked skin.

Chapped hands, maybe.

I don't want to speculate ...

I’m in the utter butter club also
My wife got me some body butter from robins nest I put it on my hands and feet when at home and it’s dry weather

A tube of Corona utter butter if traveling or pack hunting

 

[JoshOR]

Okeefes Working hands gets my vote. Seems to protect a bit as well.

 

[Matt5266]

Bag Balm

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

My knuckles dry out here in AZ this time of year. The best I’ve found is unscented Cerave lotion. Not greasy, heals up the cracks fast, etc. I also wear merino fingerless gloves from November through February while hunting and backpacking in AZ. It helps to keep them from drying out.

 

[AZ8]

I use Bag Balm, but I carry a little tube of Super Glue to close up the bad cracks while out in the field.

 

[Blackdog317]

"Green Goo". I used this during Archery Elk and 2nd Rifle in Colorado this year. A buddy recommended it. Worked great. Hands always cracked during & after these trips in the past. No issues this year.

The tin container is small (1.8 oz.). A little goes a long way. I think it is an all-natural, plant-based product.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTICWXC?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder_k1_1_9&amp=&crid=1XI2J3XUE1IKT&amp=&sprefix=first+aid

 

[DavidReed]

Beef Tallow. Ingested and rubbed in like lotion does wonders for skin.

 

[Riff]

Another vote for Duke Cannon Bloody Knuckles.

 

[Bolt]

Best I have found for daily use but I don't take this on hunts.https://www.badgerbalm.con
I usually have a bag of cotton balls with Vaseline on them to start camp stove fire in my hot tent. Each night when I start a fire I kill two birds with one stone. Vaseline helps with the hands and one of the best fire starters around.

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[tony]

I didn't read all three pages.
My dad was a machinist and his hands were always a mess. Whatever lotion he used, he slept with cotton "jersey" gloves on and said it helped.

I work in a women's prison and get to look at some of the nastiest hooves you can imagine. We prescribe Minerin/Eucerin lotion, and it gets those hooves nice and pretty for fair week!

 

[dirtshooter]

Another vote for beef tallow.

 

[TheWhitetailNut]

My hands are always dry when the humidity gets low, and if I don't keep up with something like Okeefes working hands they will crack and bleed. This year in Colorado for a week, my hands started cracking and bleeding really bad. I didn't have anything with me to put on them. Towards the end they actually kept me from sleeping from throbbing pain. Does anyone suffer from the same issue and have something that really works well to keep on them when in the field for weeks at a time?

Bearfat

 

[ColeyG]

I’ve tried almost all of the products listed……my favorite hasn’t been mentioned.

If you can find it, I highly recommend a product called Climb On Lotion Bar. Unfortunately it sounds like the Climb On company recently went out of business but was acquired by Black Diamond Equipment who is now making climb on bar but is currently out of stock. Some climbing shops might have stock. I’m hoping BD continues production but have heard that Burt’s bees has a similar product. I will likely check out Burt’s when I run out of climb on.

This.

Best solution for dried, cracked hands I've come across. It does a great job of both moisturizing and promoting healing. As a long time rock climber and serial hand abuser Ive gone through a long list of products and nothing else comes close.

I introduced Climb On to my wife a decade ago and she wont use anything else.

Hopefully BD can pick up where Climb On leaves off.

 

[RadialJett]

 

[Davyalabama]

I hunt in the East, I'm usually pretty close to game and have to worry about wind and smell. Yeah, all that gobledegoop, I've tried to kill my scent, except for ozone, I haven't gone that far. I do try to use nonscented soaps, lotions and hair products, laundry, etc. Ceravee unscented is what I use. You can already tell I'm a little touched in the head just for trying to outwit a whitetails nose, so take it for what it is. Ceravee does work, however.

 

[Maddog58]

Duke Cannon Bloody Knuckles

This is without a doubt the best

 

[ChrisA]

Raccoon fat did wonders for my hands back when I put up my own fur. My buddy swore it made his fingernails grow faster too

 

[Bryan B]

The lotions works ok, but I have found liquid bandage, or in a pinch super glue, on the cracks works well to keep them from cracking more.

 

[yfarm]

Despite endless ads to women about moisturizing creams and lotions, all this stuff actually retards drying from evaporation. Moisture in the skin comes from inside, absorbed moisture from outside is a miniscule fraction of the total. Thats why the greases are better than the lotions. Lotions evaporate, greases dont as fast, also why the gloves work. Try to get your wife/girl friend to put bag balm on their face. Notice your hands never get chapped when you sweat?

 

[Mule3006Elk]

Your case is more extreme. If this happens to you most years I would use the overnight gloves made for this purpose. Use a good amount of Neutrogenia hand cream and put the gloves on overnight. That will likely take care of the issue especially if you do so proactively not reactively. Bring a small amount of Neutrogenia in the field and put some on a few times t/o the day especially in the areas you are prone cracking/fissuring. Use can start doing this one week before your hunt to give your hands a head start.

I get these fissures on the tips on my fingers on occasion but always during hunting season. Prevention is the key ime. Amazing how a small fissure in nerve dense fingertips can hurt like you know what.