S.K.
You may laugh but I just had my first baby and was applying lanolin twice a day to releave dryness. Well my husband has extreamly dry skin in the winter dry, craking and bleading along with some itching, he asked me what that lanolin work like and tried it on his hands one night and put socks over his hands to sleep. Not a miricle remedy but in three days they were greatly improved and no more cracking since and he has stopped using it for probably two weeks now.