Healing Hands with W.O.D. Welder Handcare Kit | Is it worth buying?

05 May 2019

This is a full week day-by-day review of healing ripped hands with W.O.D. Welder 3 Step Handcare kit including multiple photos of the healing process.

Day -1 – Initial contact + plan

Guys from W.O.D. Welder contacted me if I would like to receive some goodies. Of course, I said yes, who doesn’t love free stuff?

They just wanted a little feedback about their product, positive or negative but they weren’t prepared for the ultimate review of their product.

I decided to go all out!

Rip my hands on multiple spots and give a W.O.D Welder 3 Step Handcare Kit serious challenge.

Does W.O.D. Welder kit speed up the healing process?

Will it fully heal my hands in 7 days?

Continue reading to find out!

I am writing this article day by day so you can receive an as accurate review as possible.

Day 0 – Package has arrived

W.O.D. Welder Handcare Kit including thank you letter was packed in a sturdy box to make sure nothing break.

The whole kit consists of three items.

CrossFit image at WTC

1) The Stone

You will receive a piece of solid rock. That’s all, just kidding :).

The Rock is pretty light, and it has a rough texture that helps to remove dead skin.

It is also well sized, and I had no problem holding it for many minutes while taking care of my dead skin.

2) The Salve

W.O.D. Welder Salve is made mostly from beeswax and other entirely natural ingredients. It makes hands very oily and prevents skin drying up for many hours.

Salve is in a tube packaging, and I was surprised how much salve is included in the package and how much I still got left after the first-week procedure.

I think that Salve can last about 2-3 months of heavy daily usage.

3) The Cream

The last thing in the package was the W.O.D. Welder Cream.

The cream is in the smaller packaging of just 2 oz (59 ml) but is highly concentrated and very dense.

It takes time to process it to the skin, but it is worth doing as it keeps hands moist for many hours.

The almost thick paste consistency made me use only a small portion of the cream, and I think it can last about the same time as the salve (2-3 months of daily usage).

Day 1 – Ripping my hands

After almost ten years of CrossFit and several cases of ripped hands, I developed a routine of taking care of hands, and I think that in the last 12 months I didn’t rip my hands

once. Now I had to break this streak but how? Let me show you THE HAND RIPPER.

THE HAND RIPPER

20 Min AMRAP
10-20-30-… American KB Swings 1.5/1 pood
10-20-30-… Pull Ups
10-20-30-… Alternating KB Snatches 1.5/1 pood
10-20-30-… Burpees

Before WOD, I was 100% sure that this WOD has to rip my hands and that there will be blood everywhere.

At 18 minutes and 30 seconds in the workout I was starting set of 40 pull-ups, and my hands were still ok.

I thought I failed. I was already thinking about doing one more WOD that help me to rip my hands. But after 30 reps (total of 90 pull-ups) my calluses did finally tear.

On my right hand, I got blood under a callus but it still held together but on my left hand I tore it, and there was a little blood, thankfully skin still holds.

I had an evening WOD, so I didn’t have much time to take care of my hands. So, I have just washed my hands (soap hurts a little) then used disinfection and finished it with a layer of W.O.D. Welder Solid Salve (beeswax) and Handcream.

From my experience, you have to keep your hands oily or at least moist throughout the healing process as the skin on dry hands may burst and make a healing much more difficult.

CrossFit image at WTC

Day 2 – Using stone

I have used wax and cream multiple times a day, but I decided to remove some dead skin with a stone in the evening.

I was able to remove only a little part, but after finishing the process, my hands were actually pretty smooth.

My ripped calluses looked still bad, but I was able to not ripped calluses with the stone.

CrossFit image at WTC

Day 3 – Removing dead skin from a ripped callus

I have removed about 50% of dead skin from my ripped callus.

I have done this after a shower (skin was soft) then cut away some dead skin with manicure scissors. I have finished it with W.O.D. Welder Stone and applied a significant film of Salve and Handcream.

Fresh skin under ripped callus was ok and didn’t hurt at all. I made sure to keep it hydrated as I hate it when fresh skin dries up and burst during the healing process.

CrossFit image at WTC

Day 4 and Day 5 – Just another day of healing

Hands looked about the same as the day before. I just kept hands moist/oily through the day and did little “stoning,” “salving” and “creaming.”

CrossFit image at WTC

Day 6 – Removing dead skin from a blood-filled callus

I have decided to remove the remaining half of dead skin from ripped callus and remove most of the skin from another hand where I had blood filled callus.

I have again removed the skin from blood-filled callus with manicure scissors. For the rest the process was the same, shower -> stoning -> salving -> creaming.

After I removed the skin from the left hand where I had ripped callus, it was almost fully healed (like 95% healed).

There is just a little mark of blood left but the skin is smooth, and even grip in the gym was OK as I didn’t feel any pain.

After removing the skin from the right hand, I still have some dead skin left (about 25%).

I should have probably removed it sooner as the skin under callus was sensitive.

CrossFit image at WTC

Day 7 – Final day, finishing touches

This time I have used the stone to remove the remaining dead skin from the right-hand callus that was filled with blood.

I was able to remove almost all dead skin.

It looks like I was waiting too many days to remove the first layer of dead skin as my right hand is still sensitive.

My left hand is now fully healed, and the right hand is 95% ready.

CrossFit image at WTC

Conclusion

W.O.D. Welder Handcare Kit works.

From my experience it makes healing ripped hands about two times faster compared to not taking care of the hands at all.

Before I found out W.O.D. Welder, I was using a similar combination of lip salve and classic hand cream. In my opinion, the W.O.D. Welder Handcare Kit was more efficient as they use high-end quality ingredients which were explicitly picked to heal ripped hands.

I have also experience with the Hemagel (it is the special expensive healing solution from a pharmacy) that works very well, but you still need to cream your hands. W.O.D Welder did about the same job as the Hemagel but had a lower price per use.

W.O.D. Welder Handcare Kit packaging seemed to be small for the first time, but after using it for a week multiple times per day, I still have about 90% of salve and hand cream left. If I consider Amazon.com price of $28.75, it is about $2.75 per week-long healing procedure.

I think this is a reasonable price for a very well made product which helps you to get back into intensive training in a matter of days.

Prevention is important

Most of the time your hands will get ripped when there is extra dead skin. You can easily avoid that if you take care of your hands on at least every week.

You should keep removing dead skin whenever it appears.

You can easily do it with the rock that is included with W.O.D. Welder kit and finishing it with a cream.

If you are avid CrossFitter as I am and have an extra buck to spare you should definitely try W.O.D. Welder.