Best lip balm and hand cream

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I'm in a new physical outdoors role

And I'm suffering a bit!! Hands are rough and sore and lips permanently dry.... any recommendations for good products?

Nails are also battered but I can wear gloves, just don't find them easy

I used the cream blistex which looks like the one for cold sores during chemo and surgeries. It is brilliant- it kept my lips as moist as possible (given I had literally 30 ulcers in my mouth at one point) despite oxygen, hospital air con and dehydration. I still use it - doesnt look pretty but it works!

I am addicted to the Laneige Lip Sleep Mask. It lasts for hours on me during the day, and definitely all night. My favourite is the grapefruit scent. (I don’t think it actually smells like grapefruit, btw...) I think in the UK you can buy it at Sephora and you can probably get it on Amazon for less. (I don’t like the vanilla one, btw, but I shy away from vanilla things in general.)

Justilou1 i have just irdered that. Thanks

just giving that one a try too.... it's on amazon

I like the O'Keefes hand lotion (Working Hands), and the lip balm. The packaging looks like it's aimed at blokes working on a building site or something, but it's very effective.
I like Burts Bees lip balm but I don't find it cured very chapped lips. It's ok for day to day though.

Ok101, I used to have really painful, dry lips that would peel (attractive) and hurt to smile. Tried every lip balm known to humanity until I eventually went to the GP who said he thought it was a form of dermatitis and he prescribed a cream to use sparingly for a bit. Was a strong steroid cream so not ideal but I don't have it any more (touch wood).

Thought I would share just in case anyone has this but obviously it is not great to put steroid creams on your lips but did get rid of it

Eucerin intensive lotion 10% urea from large Boots stores or just order online from their website or Amazon. I have exceedingly dry flaky skin and this really helps. Sometimes I use the foot cream on my hands overnight (does the same and cheaper). Eucerin do a range of different skin treatments including a really good intensive lip balm. I tend to buy when on promotion. Also bio oil (available everywhere) is really good - just a few drops on the skin - including the face. It's not just good for itchy scar tissue.

Best lip balms: Carmex. Forever Living Aloe Lips also good.

Hand cream: Aveeno, the one with the navy blue lid.

Hands - I agree with a PP that hemp hand cream from body shop is great. I also remember being recommended Gloves in a Bottle stuff and it was brilliant to protect mine when my skin was really dry
Lips - mine get quite bad but I've been using a sugar scrub recently and I've noticed a massive difference if I use that first, then Burts Bees original lip balm.

I like Sanctuary Spa handcream (Superdrug). It doesn’t make your hands feel greasy forever after.

La Roche Posay Cicaplast Baume is my usual cream for hands. Best one I've ever found by a country mile.
I sometimes use Body Shop Almond, or Hemp, as an overnight cream to wear with the cotton gloves on. Nice if I want a thick layer as an intensive treatment after I've been gardening or something. I use their foot lotions overnight with socks on, too.

I use Body Shop hemp lip balm if my lips get very dry, never tried Lansinoh but I'll bear it in mind. For every day use I use the Body shop cocoa butter but it's been discontinued, boo hoo.

Amorr22. Thank you. I have tried steroids. Ds2 has awful eczema and we went private and sorted his out with steroids. Now just gets random flare ups. I asked the specialist for me and he gabe me some to try and did nothing just made them worse! I might be severley dehydrated... but they have always been like this. I can pick the dead skin off and within half an hour its back again!

I find Carmex very good. Also Vaseline. Rawleighs Ointment if you have it there.

oh and when you do washing up: wear a pair of cotton gloves under the marigolds so your hands don't get sweaty

Badger Balm for both

Love some of these, also recommending lanolips, bit easier to use than lansinoh as more liquid.

Why do lip balm manufacturers think it's a good idea to add mint and other additives that sting to lip balms? The Burt's Bees minty lip balm is horrible, and so is the Carmex.

Justilou1. Thank you for the recommendation. I got that crean yesterday and while not cured it is the first time i have woken up without cracked or bleeding dry lips!!!!! Not cures but 90% better

You’re welcome! Hope you like it! Btw... I find less is more is the trick for making it last, as well! Don’t smear it on too thickly!

O'Keefe lip balm. The matte one in the orange tube. I'm never without it.

O’Keefe’s for both! Non-greasy, unscented, they’re the best lip balm and hand cream I’ve ever used.

loccitane lip balm is the best thing ive ever used, costly but you only use a tiny bit and it is almost instantaneously fixed
and i love happy naturals argan oil hand cream ( was called London spa argan oil hand cream) it is so good that i gave some to my aunty and mum and sister and now they all love it and my uncle, lives most of the year in Korea for work , tried it and now takes tubes of it back to Korea with him and my aunt will also send it to him, he uses it and gives as gifts to his workers, they work in very exposed conditions summer, heat and snow in winter and it really helps their hands! also really well priced!

For lips; Burts Bees during the day because it's in a stick so you don't use potentially dirty fingers to apply it, and at night Lansinoh. Warm the Lansinoh in your pocket or down your bra to make it less solid. It also works around sore noses caused by much nose wiping.

For hands, the magic ingredients are urea, glycerin and lanolin. They’re humectants - they pull water from the lower layers of the skin (don’t worry, unless you’re horribly dehydrated it’ll be replaced instantly) and hold it in the top layer of skin. Lanolin is similar to skin lipids, and acts as an emollient occlusive layer to smooth skin and as a barrier. You may need to look at the non-glamourous workhorse brands rather than the cosmetic counters. Flexitol Hand Balm is good at a reasonable price (the two-pack from eBay is best value).

L’Occitane’s shea butter hand cream contains glycerin and smells gorgeous. If you use hyaluronic acid for your face, a few drops on your hands under a hand cream will help.

I have no luck with the business of lashing on hand cream then putting on cotton gloves. The cream ends up around the wrist of the gloves and my finger ends are still dry. For really dry finger tips and cuticles Lansinoh or Carmex (yes, the lip balm) massaged around cuticles work well. If your finger ends get so dry that you get splits superglue seals the crack, letting it heal from the bottom without zipping open just as you think it’s healed. It also stops salt, lemon juice etc getting into it. To use, pull the crack apart slightly, drop a single small drop of superglue in and squeeze the crack shut, being careful not to glue your hands together. It stings like mad for a second, then you can forget about it.