What to do if your hands are hard and dry

Many parents and housewives have rough skin on their hands. What should they do if their hands are hard and dry? This is mainly caused by long-term contact with cold water and hard work. If you want to alleviate this condition, you must take good care of your hands. After washing your hands in daily life, apply some hand oil to help slow down the evaporation of moisture in your hands. Let’s learn about the reasons why hands become rough due to aging.

1. Four reasons why your hands become rough due to aging

1. Like to wash hands with hot water

When the weather gets cold, many people like to use hot water to wash their hands. Doing so can easily cause the sebum on the hands to be washed away, causing the skin on the hands to lack protection and become more prone to roughness and aging.

What to do: The water temperature for washing hands should be controlled at around body temperature. Generally it is better not to exceed 40 degrees Celsius.

2. Not using sunscreen on your hands

Rough hands may also be caused by not using sun protection. The skin on your hands is often exposed to the sun and also requires sun protection. The metabolism of the hands is slower than that of the face. Without sun protection, they are easily damaged by ultraviolet rays.

What to do: Apply sunscreen on your hands when going out, and be sure to reapply sunscreen in time if you stay outdoors for a long time.

3. Less fat layer on the hands

There is less fat on the hands, so the skin on the hands is more stimulated when it comes into contact with external objects, which makes it more likely to cause aging and roughness of the skin on the hands.

What to do: Eat more foods that supplement collagen to enhance the skin's own defenses. For example, you can eat more pig's trotters, pig skin, beef tendons, chicken wings, chicken feet, white fungus, fish maw, etc.

4. Less hand cleaning

The skin on the hands also secretes sebaceous glands and is contaminated with oil, dirt and bacteria. If you do not clean your hands frequently, it can easily cause the skin's stratum corneum to thicken, oil and dirt to accumulate in the pores, and the skin on your hands to become increasingly rough.

What to do: It is best to wash your hands frequently before and after meals every day, and use a mild hand soap with less irritation to clean thoroughly.

2. Diet therapy for rough palm skin

The skin on our body will change as we age, our work environment and our living environment change. In addition, there are many other reasons that can cause our skin to change, the most intuitive of which is our hands. In our daily life, we may often find that our hands become dry and rough for unknown reasons. So what should we do when the skin on our palms becomes rough?

1. Supplement animal collagen

Eat more pig's trotters, chicken feet, and meat slices to replenish the collagen in your skin and make your skin more moisturized through food supplements.

2. Supplement vegetable oil

Since rough skin is caused by insufficient oil secretion from the skin, you can get vegetable oil to moisturize the skin by eating more sesame seeds and walnut kernels.

3. Vitamin C supplement

By eating more vegetables and fruits containing vitamin C, you can also moisturize the skin and have the effect of beautifying the skin. Vegetables and fruits that are generally high in vitamin C include green peppers, broccoli, spinach, rapeseed, alfalfa, tomatoes, kiwis, oranges, and sour dates.