awful dry skin on hands. painful - whta cream tcan I use?

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I get this every winter. It is hurting so much atm. esp between my fingers. not exzema, just dry dry chapped skin

can anyone help me with:

a) a good cream to use?
b) where to get it?
c) how much it us?
d) does it work?

tia

Aqueous cream is brilliant if it's just dry and chapped skin due to the weather. DS had really sensitive skin when he was a newborn and I used to bath him in it and then moisturise him with it afterwards. P uses it now because his hands get really chapped this time of year and it doesn't irritate. It's cheap too, you can get a big 500g tub for about a fiver.

I had eczema from constant hand washing and saw a dermatologist who said that I should was hands with an emollient like Doublebase or Diprobase or E45 do one now so moisturises the hands when you wash with them. The Body Shop do a fantastic hand cream called Hemp, don't like the scent but moisturises effectively and doesn't leave a film.

L'Occitane link via Amazon is here , though I get mine from Debenhams. Expensive but you don't need much and it really is fab.

i remember a friend said she used something called hemp cream from bodyshop and said it worked. I didn't like the smell of it though

Metanium baby moisturiser different from the nappy rash gloop.
It is a white cream with aloe vera.Got mine in Lloyds chemist. Picture here
I find it really soothing

Aveeno cream is the DBs for winter hands. Has them smooth in n time.

Down side - stinks of oats

L'Occitaine have a website
l'occitine
you can often get box sets on special offer You really want the shea butter stuff and I often buy it from QVC (sad as that is) as they have great offers the last one was £70 worth of products for £35ish
l'occ QVC

Definitely the L'Occitane or the Body Shop Hemp one. I've got both, and they're great. I also like the Clarins one, but it's pretty expensive.

thanks for all these tips everyone. I shall get on to it asap.