Originally posted on April 22, 2025
I used to work in construction. My hands were rough and calloused. My skin was dry from handling sheet metal. Yes, in a past life, I was a sheet metal worker. I cut metal with snips. I worked with my hands. That life just wasn’t for me. Then I got into IT, and worked in an office for much of my adult life.
As an office worker, I type all day. I don’t handle paper much anymore. But the air is dry here in Salt Lake City. I live in a desert. In the winter, the air is cold and even drier.
When the temperature falls below freezing, the relative humidity falls. Cold air holds less moisture than warm air. And when that cold air goes through a furnace, you have a recipe for dry hands.
At work, the water is hard. I live in a mining town, and there is no water softener at work. I use the restroom several times a day. I’m an old man and nothing works quite like it used to work, so I might use the restroom more frequently than before. I drink more water as an older man that I did when I was young, too.
Hard water, not so kind liquid soap, frequent hand washing, and just being in a dry climate all add up to very dry, and sometimes painfully dry hands.
I asked my wife Alice – she’s the other half of the team – about it. “Use TranLan, deary.”
So I started using TranLan Moisturizer on my hands every day at work. I would just scrape up a bit with my finger tips, not my fingernails, and spread it all over my hands. I would especially cover the webbing between my fingers and thumb and index finger. They showed the worst chapping from washing my hands.
I got some relief, and it was almost instant relief. I noticed also that TranLan acted like a shield from the water. That’s from the beeswax. Beeswax is hydrophobic meaning, it repels water.
After using TranLan for a week, I noticed a difference in how my hands felt. They didn’t feel so tight, and they felt more comfortable. I noticed that the effect was cumulative and progressive throughout the week. As I used TranLan to protect my hands, there seemed to be an accumulation of protection for my skin.
Yesterday I worked in the yard to fix a problem with my sprinklers. I could not fix the problem and will hire a contractor to help out. But I could notice that my hands were very dry this morning. Before I finished this article, this morning, I used TranLan to give my dry hands some relief. And my hands feel better now.
TranLan has all natural ingredients that I can pronounce. I don’t have to look them up online to find out what they are. I don’t have to worry about what gets through my skin into my body with simple ingredients, sourced in America. I can use TranLan every day and know that I’ll be OK.