Make sure it’s never hot and that the concentration is at the right level. It should always be cold or room temp and use the strips to test if the concentration is too high and needs to be diluted more

55-70 degrees. Should feel cool/room temperature

After having burns on my hands like these for weeks on end, and talking to a few other food service workers, it boiled(hehe) down to the sani being too hot. No matter people's personal preferences the water HAS to be room temp. It was really hard to retrain the partners at my store to NOT use hot water, but it is in training/equipment manual to ONLY use room temp water.

Yes to the point where my hands cracked and bled. This happened at a gas station that I worked at too with a similar (if not the same) sanitizer as sbux

Yup, before the quarantine it wrecked my hands especially after working long hours ☹️

I have this exact problem, specifically only on my right ring fever. I found that every time I went to work I would walk out and it would be worse and worse, more and more itchier and raw. I thought it was the restroom cleaner, I thought it was a food allergy or just eczema. It’s 100% the sani and the harsh chemicals that’s imbedded into the soaps and stuff. The temp of the water does play a huge part, the hotter it is, the worse it is, but def wear those big rubber gloves while wiping down counters and doing dishes. Depending on how bad it was, I’ve had like 3 band-aids, vinyl gloves, AND THEN rubber gloves just to wipe down counters some times. Although it’s tedious, it did help a lot not to have direct contact with those harsh chemicals. O’Keefe’s definitely is the best hand cream (and it’s unscented!! (: yay) also, if you can get some, sleep with your hand smothered in O’Keefes and then put 100% cotton gloves over it while you sleep. It helps a lot and keeps it super moisturized.

IT DOES THAT TO ME TOO THE SAME THING it took me W E E K S to figure out what it was

Maybe! I have a spot that looks like that on my wrist that just started a couple days ago (when I came back)

For now, I would start soaking your hands in coconut oil, but do look into that soap if you can get it, and probably Try to wash your hands less at SBUX, or if you do have to wash at SBUX - use less soap, Ask to not do dishes, etc.

But watch out for that ingredient in the soap you buy too if you can. There are other ingredients that aren’t good for your skin that are included in commercial soaps. I use the Alaffia brand at Whole Foods

The sanitizer is not good for the hands. Nor is the soap for the handwashing sink because of the commercial ingredients like sodium lauryl sulfate. If you are vigorously washing your hands multiple times a shift, your hands will dry out, crack, and eventually bleed because these commercial soap/sanitizing ingredients strip your skin

Ever since we came back this week. I was wondering if maybe they turned up the concentration mix. We test it every batch so I know it’s not overly strong. But I’m wondering if it wasn’t strong enough before (we didn’t use to test it I don’t think).

Anyway, my hands are trashed.

See if methylchloroisothiazolinone is in the products you are using on your hands. It is a preservative in many products, soaps, shampoos, cosmetics and household cleaners which aren’t even required to list ingredients(SMH) It causes a reaction like that on me.
The ingredient is actually banned in Europe.

Yep! Worked at Starbucks for 2 years and had to quit due to the hives I was getting from the sanitizer. Constantly washing my hands and doing dishes wrecked my hands and never truly recovered until I quit and fully stopped getting exposed to the sanitizer. Good lotion can only do so much and it might be something more than just a bad reaction. I was officially diagnosed with dyshidrotic eczema and it was the last straw to getting me to quit :( hope yours is different and it heals well!

Not myself but I’ve know plenty of partners with skin conditions and sensitive skin that have this issue

My hands have been bleeding and burning for 4 days now, ever since we opened back up!