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As this blog is read by more and more folks, I’m beginning to get requests to review products. Some people want me to mention their site or talk about their products. Many want to send me free stuff to try out or use and talk about it on the site. Understand that I’m being very careful not to abuse this privilege; I don’t just want free stuff. In fact, I’ve turned down more than I’ve accepted because I want to give them the time they deserve, and want to stay true to the readers. I don’t want to talk about something that doesn’t have anything to do with men’s gifts.
So, when I was contacted by the makers of Skin MD Natural shielding lotion, I politely declined. Come on, lotion? On a men’s gift blog? Well they insisted, saying that many guys that work with their hands really use the stuff for it’s protective qualities. Guys like mechanics, fishermen, chemical worker people. All right, send some over, but no promises.
Over the last like month I’ve used it here and there. You know, it’s lotion. In fact, I had planned not to mention it on the blog, because you know, it’s lotion.
Well last night my wife had me out on the back porch putting up Christmas lights. This is central Virginia. Certainly there are much colder areas, but still it’s cold enough here. So it took me forever. All the lights were still in the box, so I had to pry each light out of that hard plastic carrier. I’m working around the porch with the staple gun. Had to back up once because I cut part of the cord with a staple. Well I got all the way around and on my last staple, I sliced right through the cord and blew the fuses in the whole line. Screw it, I’m going inside.
My hands hurt. The cold, the little cuts from the plastic, the cold. All right lotion, let’s see what you can do.
Look, you can go to their site to read all the things the dermatologists say. You can even see a video of some guy pouring acid on his hand after using the lotion. Well forget all that. Let me tell you from a guy that doesn’t know anything except that his hands hurt, this is great stuff.
