Skin care

Having really dry skin does not help with grip.

I read somewhere that for some reason grip strength is one of the only muscle groups where the Bell curves of male strength vs. female strength has essentially zero overlap. It was something like "the weakest 2% of men have stronger grip strength than 98% of women," or maybe even more extreme. IDK, I can't remember the source and I can't be bothered to look for it on a Saturday morning, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

It's all about that grippy texture. Just put on some rubber dishwashing gloves.

Remember ladies, Jars are similar to tars, so simple xvf would be enough

Might also have something to do with having, on average, twice the grip strength... but who knows.

well, I'll have you know that the palms of my hands are very moist

So apparently if you smack it all around the sides of the lid with a spoon or something, you can loosen the vacuum seal.

It sounds fake but it worked the other night on a jar of salsa I was legitimately considering just breaking, and I'm still kinda mad that I never knew that til now.

Transgender lady here. I have experience on both sides of this.

Testosterone does a lot of interesting things to your body, including making your skin more rough. This includes your fingertips.

Several years after taking HRT, I had problems holding onto things. This wasn’t a matter of grip strength. My fingerprints had lost the pronounced ridging that they used to have. The result was butterfingers; losing grip on anything that wasn’t roughly textured itself. Anything smooth would just fall right out of my hands. And jar lids became suddenly difficult to open.

Bullshit, we do use moisturizer.

We also regularly train grip strength. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Maybe men’s palms are just more rough in general? 😄

Kinda makes sense. I work with a lot of things that really dry out your hands throughout the day, so our office has to buy a lot of lotion. We have to buy an expensive silicon based one because the others just leave oily residue on all the tools making everything slippery.

Both me (compulsively forgets to moisturize), and my wife (moisturized several times a day with hand, body, face lotions) handle most jars with ease.

What gets both of us is little jars. Extracts, or vanilla. Especially alcohol free vanilla! It’s sticky and sticks to the threads of the lid/jar. Even with wiping it down, it’s a problem.

My solution was to wrap the lids in 2242 Electrical tape. Which really helps with getting a grip on it.

Men also do something else with their grip, and I've heard quite a few use lotion when doing it.

QED checkmate.

i cover all my jars in lotion. keeps things challenging and it means i never forget to lotion up

Some promotion for !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works, not very active but hopefully that will change

Can't get a good grip if you're bone dry either.

Balance.

Nah

I put a 1/4" layer of moisturizer on my hands before bed and then put gloves on. I can still open jars because of the testosterone.

I'm going through a divorce and recently moved out. Went to pick up more of my stuff and had to open a jar. I bought her a few jar openers for her lol.

Hit the bottom, as we did back in the day with Snapple bottles and it makes the popping sound. Hit the bottom, make the pop, top more easily removed. Lotion unrelated!

Really, I don't know why dudes don't like putting lotion on after a shower, feels great.

Anyone who's inspired, go ahead and get some neutral smelling lotion, then after you take a shower, rub that all over your body. You can do the face too if you don't have face specific lotion.

After I added this to my routine, my skin has felt and looked great.

Calluses play a role as well I imagine.

What a weird stance to take.