My hands are RUINED - recommend me a hand cream

[moogdroog]

Honestly, they are flaking, cracked, sore..

Have just moved into a house that has been completely renovated and have undertaken monumental amounts of cleaning, whilst utterly neglecting myself. I bought rubber gloves yes, but did I use them? No.

Can you tell me of something magic that can fix them?

I love Soap and Glory Hand Food.

Aveeno. It is magic.

flexitol hand balm - stinks but is really very effective

I have tried millions of hand creams and this one - Garnier daily hand cream with honey - is the only one that shifted a long-standing dry rash I had.

Hard to beat Vaseline intensive care.

But if you want to spend on something nice Burts bees honey and grape seed oil cream is gorgeous

Oh, I didn't know flexitime did hand stuff!

The Body Shop Hemp hand cream is excellent - smells a bit funny but works wonders. Alternatively I had a lovely Palmers Cocoa Butter hand cream which smells lush and leaves hands feeling really soft. The best thing I find for really neglected hands is slathering them with loads of your favourite cream before bed (enough that there is a visible film on them!) and wearing cotton gloves all night while the cream soaks in. Makes a big difference in the morning.

weleda skin food, body shop hemp

The Body Shop Hemp hand cream is excellent - smells a bit funny but works wonders. Alternatively I had a lovely Palmers Cocoa Butter hand cream which smells lush and leaves hands feeling really soft. The best thing I find for really neglected hands is slathering them with loads of your favourite cream before bed (enough that there is a visible film on them!) and wearing cotton gloves all night while the cream soaks in. Makes a big difference in the morning.

oops sorry for double post!

L'Occitaine does lovely handcream which makes my over-washed hands feel much better without being too greasy.

Neutrogena is excellent, I also like L'0ccitane Shea Butter and Lush Helping Hands. I know lots of people love it but Body Shop Hemp did nothing for my hands.

Almond oil is lovely. Very good for your nails as well.

Aveeno is brilliant.

Also blistex intensive handcream is very good.

Almond oil works well as an overnight treatment, with cotton gloves.

Second almond oil! And clarins hand cream is v good.

Aveeno again

I second Aveeno. It's the only thing that works on my cracked and bleeding knuckles. And if you're going to be in rubber gloves for long, hand cream and cotton gloves underneath might help.

I find it hard to get to sleep with gloves on (too hot) and if I do manage I invariably pull them off in the night, same when I've tried it with my feet.

Crabtree and Evelyn - La Source hand scrub followed by cream. It's got my horrendously neglected hands back in shape in a matter of a couple of days.

Go to boots and buy a large tub of Silcox Base (only a couple of quid).

Slather it on twice a day, really thickly, and let it soak in.

It's great stuff. It even sorted dh's hands out when he was rowing and doing a manual outdoor job. His hands were horribly cracked and blistered before finding it.

Body shop hemp hand cream

Clarins Jeunesse Des Mains is fantastic. It's very thick and soaks in brilliantly.

Before you go to bed cover your hands in vaseline and then put on some cotton gloves and keep them on all night, or however long you can stand them!

Lansinoh, seriously I recommended to colleague ith cracks in his hands that were bleeding, he practically snogged me a week after when I saw him! It's brilliant for hands I promise!

Lansinoh, seriously I recommended to colleague ith cracks in his hands that were bleeding, he practically snogged me a week after when I saw him! It's brilliant for hands I promise!