Wunderman’s favorites are Gerbing’s battery-powered Heated Fleece Gloves, because they’re less bulky and more maneuverable than most other options. There are some heated gloves on the market if you’re not into hand warmers (or perhaps you need to double up). In that case, Strategist senior editor Winnie Yang, who regularly uses these in her ski gloves and boots, suggests keeping them in your pockets instead, “so you can thaw your fingers out while you’re on the lift.” One caveat: At their hottest, these can feel a bit too warm for some people. “Around this time, I also developed trigger finger so severely that I’d wake up with my hands rigor mortis–ed into claws, and these were the only thing that helped loosen them.” “I’d use HotHands after warming up to keep the blood in my fingers (a recommendation from my teacher),” she says. He says his neighbors living in the encampments consistently request these particular warmers, too.įor Strategist senior editor Chelsea Peng, these hand warmers were essential in her days of competitive piano.
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“I keep them inside my mittens after I’ve used them early in the morning, and usually by the end of the day when I have to go back outside, I can activate them again and cradle them as I shiver in the cold waiting for the bus rather than opening a new packet.” Andy Robledo, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Feeding People Through Plants, also relies on this brand to keep his hands and feet warm as he spends full days outside building insulated ice-fishing tents for Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. “They stay warm all day long,” Burns says. The single-use packets are inexpensive and simple to use: Just expose them to air and shake them. With their telltale orange packaging, HotHands is arguably the most recognizable hand-warmer brand - and they’re the favorite of four of our experts. To find the most effective and reliable options, I asked Burns and six other experts who have dealt extensively with cold hands in their careers and personal lives to share their recommendations. Most traditional hand warmers contain a mix of chemicals (like iron, salt, and activated carbon) that react when exposed to oxygen, though there are plenty of battery-operated options available as well. Hand warmers work in a few different ways, depending on the specific product. Perhaps most commonly marketed toward winter-sports enthusiasts, these palm-size heat packs can also come in handy when you’re sitting in the stands of an outdoor football stadium, working an outdoor job (or an indoor job in a chilly environment, like a poorly insulated building), or just commuting to and from work during a polar vortex. Burns says even the bulkiest mittens won’t cut it, so she supplements them with hand warmers. “Once winter hits, I can’t get by with gloves my frozen fingers just turn blue,” says Stacey Burns, a reproductive-rights advocate in Minneapolis who has Raynaud’s.
It’s even tougher if you have a condition like Raynaud’s, which further limits blood flow to fingers and toes. But why is it that even after you’ve bundled up in layers of thermals and sweaters under a heavy-duty coat, your hands are still freezing? That’s because your body prioritizes keeping your most important organs warm, sending more blood flow to your core and less to your extremities. On frigid winter days, keeping yourself warm can be something of an art form. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailers
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