To ask what handcream works!?

[MrsChaffinch]

My hands are horrendously dry and cracked. The skin feels so tight and it’s split on my knuckle. I’ve tried loads (Aldi, Nivea, Neutrogena, Vaseline) and a more expensive Aveda one which worked brilliantly for a while but the magic didn’t seem to last.

Is there a perfect one out there before my hands turn to dust?

Aveeno or Epaderm

Hand food, I think, by Soap and Glory.

Another vote for hand food by Soap&Glory.

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream hand lotion works really fast and is lovely

Rub pure lanolin into the cracks. Heals them in 2 days. Or look up ‘Romney Marsh Wools Lanolin M’

I love Crabtree and Evelyn. Although it's rich, it gets absorbed very quickly. It also comes in a huge range of gorgeous fragrances.

Not a hand cream but zero base is amazing for dry skin on hands!

Aha someone else likes Romney Marsh too! I think its fab, use it every night.

Also like L'Occitane Lavender when I am out and about.

Norwegian Formula. I find I need more than "just a dab" as they claim, but it's the only handcream that I've tried that works.

Sorry if it’s already been suggested but I’ve found Burt’s Bees really good. I like the smell too.

Aveeno.

Aveda Hand Relief I find very good and you need to use a tiny little blob.

Body shop hemp is the only thing that works for me

You need different products at different times of day. I have a condition which includes something called mechanics hands, cracking, flaking, sore skin etc so have spent a lot of time trying out different creams. My current favourite is This, overnight, Skinny Dip Miracle Balm in a thickish layer over the sore bits, covered with white cotton gloves. This provided the healing part. In the daytime keep your hands hydrated with a good handcream that you like or suits you. I use one of the Skinny Dip handcreams or a L'Occitane one.
www.skinny-dip.co.uk/our-creams/hand-creams/miracle-balm/
The Skinny Dip is simple and good value. This combination has worked well this winter for me.

As an extreme remedy I put on sudocreme overnight and have a lighter formula zinc oxide cream for daily use, over the counter at the chemist.

L’Occitane handcreams smell lovely (I got their Advent Calendar) but I have to keep applying them or I feel “unprotected” and uncomfortable.

Norwegian formula if you have the time to work it in before the next hand wash comes around.

The Flexitol PP have got me intrigued...

Kiehls intensive hand cream. Expensive but so worth It!

Eucerin Atopicontrol acute. It's magic on seriously broken out or dry skin.

Flexitol for hands

A ridiculously expensive french one by PREDIRE coconut and honey hand and nail therapy with moroccan argan oil
Its amazing but costs over £75 !!!
Can sometimes be found on the 'bay cheaply,if you find one its worth splashing out....

Aveeno. Given to me by a dr when my baby was in neonatal unit and you're washing your hands all the time. It really works. £4 in Sainsburys at the mo.

The loccitane ones that come in little paint tubes. Amazing.

Another vote for Aveeno.

I suffer with very dry, cracked hands too. The best cream I've found so far is Aveeno (the one with blue detailing on the packet, not green). Usually around £5 in Boots or a supermarket.

Coconut oil. I mean pure coconut oil. It's fantastic.

Aveeno. The one with the blue top. Works brilliantly when my eczema flares up on my hands.