climbOn Lotion bar 0.5 oz (14 g) – sustainable, purely plant-based body care

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Giddy didn’t outshine the other products enough to earn our highest scores, but it was still a favorite among testers. Joshua Tree Climbing Salve So, this choice mostly depends on your preferred skin texture. Wax-based salves are suitable for comparatively harder skin with their pros for climbers. It does help healing a little, and it’s pleasant to use and apply. It felt the most like a conventional hand lotion, and it has the least recognizable ingredients list of the lot. Because this is the primary function of the salves, this category was weighted most heavily in scoring. Feel It’s neither oily nor obtrusive, and it stays on without getting in the way. The ingredients are plant-based or beeswax, and all are food-grade, which is important for some customers.

If you care about the ingredients in your balm, we recommend using EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Database to research the ingredients in the balms you’re considering before buying. Tip Care vs. General CareAnd most importantly, DO NOT forget to reapply your handcare climbing lotion before bed. It’s a super important step that newbies often skip. How do climbers take care of flappers? To make matters worse, the oily residue means that it’s impossible to do anything else for about 10 minutes after application. Unless you have the time to sit and wait for your hands to dry, this is a pain.

We often go along with the most popular chalk, but there’s a good chance it isn’t compatible with your skin type. Don’t use climbing chalk with active drying agents unless you tend to have sweaty hands. Some climbers that have very wet skin when climbing will use a drying agent. We don’t recommend this for the vast majority of people. If you take care of your hands properly with a good routine they should actually be less wet as they won’t be constantly trying to repair themselves. Combined with a good chalk this could solve a problem with wet hands without further action. O’Keeffe’s is the other cream-style product we tested, and it’s also the least climbing-oriented (or marketed) of the six.None of these are terrible attributes, and in general the O’Keeffe’s cream was pleasant if uninspiring. Most climbing skin care balms and creams are a soft wax or oil based – in contrast to traditional skin care creams. If you have quite dry skin try to get something that moisturizes with natural oils that will be absorbed by your skin but not leave it to soft. If you have oily or sweaty skin, try and get something with a natural, mild drying agent. O’Keeffe’s earns a mention here not so much out of performance — it was the weakest performing salve in our test — as for being drastically cheaper (per ounce) than any other salve we tested.

The hardcore wax-based climbing salves are mostly for severe restoration of the skin. They’re usually applied to hands after a long history of skincare neglect. The first lotion on this list is the Rhino Performance Cream. It is hydrating, regenerative, and cleansing. It is made with earth-grown ingredients and smells very nice. If you have beat up hands it really does help your performance. It is on the expensive side, however. Climbing salves are best for restoring fingertips, especially after extreme abuse. They can be helpful, but many climbers get by well without them — don’t worry if you don’t use one. Hard Skin vs. Soft Skin To close things off, I did a few rounds of testing where I applied one salve each to six individual fingers and noted the results. This is also a salve, but it is not bar-shaped. It is more like a vaseline tin, where you put your finger in and scoop some out. That is probably the main reason why it ranked lower than the bouldering hand creams on this list. Once again the products are natural, with beeswax, almond oil, mango oil, and jojoba all making appearances.The answer depends on how much you value your dollar and your fingertips. The ClimbSkin is a strong performer that feels wonderful on the skin, but other contenders won’t take such big bites out of your wallet. How well did my skin heal using the salve? Did it make a substantial difference? What were the characteristics of healed skin? The idea of Crimp Oil is to keep your fingers in great shape and promote healthy muscles. It can be applied up to three or four times a day and it gives your hands the care they need to repair, but not to the point where they get too soft. Recovery-wise, the ClimbOn seemed to produce the most reliable healing. I personally care most about performance outdoors, which means that I like my tips to be ready for a beating. The ClimbOn heals without softening much, which is helpful for maintaining a solid layer of durable skin. As you see, you have some top options available to you. We recommend giving a couple of them a go and seeing what works best. Overall: Not Much Difference in Bouldering Hand Cream

Methenamine produces formaldehyde on reaction with water in the skin. If you are allergic to formaldehyde don’t use it. As ever consult a doctor for professional opinions and don’t use the internet for health advice. Urgent Care – Repair Split Finger Tips, Flappers, Cuts If you continue to climb and train with a flapper, you’ll likely increase the “wound.” In the worst-case scenario, you’ll start bleeding from the area. Granted, it won’t be a LOT of blood, but it’s bad nonetheless. Whenever possible, these results were corroborated by a fellow tester who would apply the same two salves (reversing which was on the dominant/non-dominant hand). It turns out to be hard to convince someone to spend a month and a half talking about hand salves, so I enlisted a rotating crew of testers.We have come to the end of our review of bouldering hand cream, yet all is not lost! We have gathered some of the most frequently asked questions in the section below. Have a look to see if they interest you. What is the best bouldering hand cream?