Dry and chapped hands - what to do...

[nocluemum]

I have a baby and toddler and am forever washing my hands and never seem to dry them properly as they are starting to get really dry and chapped as the weather gets cooler. Is hand cream in abundance ie after every hand wash the answer or is there something else. If it is handcream what does anyone recommend....

[bigchris]

vaseline intensive care handcream worked for me

[brimfull]

body shop hemp hand cream is the dogs bollocks of hand creams and I have tried loads

[MrsHappy]

Norwegian formula.
I know a few surgeons who use it (and they have to wash their hands a lot).

[policywonk]

I was going to say Body Shop Hemp Hand cream too, although of course BS are now owned by Nestle...

[Montifer]

If you're feeling a bit flush Elizabeth Arden 8 hour hand cream is fab

[brimfull]

As a nurse I wash my hands a million times a day and body shop hemp is fab at the end of the day.

[fishie]

bs hemp smells horrible though. l'occitane shea butter is fantastic.

i am currently using this watkins stuff i got it in a chemist in deepest wales.

[brimfull]

no it doesn't

[nocluemum]

thanks for all your suggestions. have become religously anal about using new hand lotion and it seems to be working.

[SixtyFootGhoul]

DS has eczema on his hads use aqueaous cream - lanolin free so non drying