Mask or treatment for really dry hands

[BoysRule]

My hands are incredibly dry at the moment. I use Clarins hand and nail cream or L'occitaine. I find everything else too greasy and they normally do the job.

Is there a deeper treatment that I could use in the evening like a mask or gloves? I have had paraffin in a manicure that was amazing - can you get this to use at home?

Thanks

The paraffin wax has to be heated to a very specific temp to avoid burning so not sure how easy it is to use at home. Part of the reason it works so well is because it completely coats the hands.

Try a similar thing using a face scrub or even salt and olive oil to get any dead skin off, slather with the L'Occitane and sit with plastic bags or cling film on your hands and put them on a hotwater bottle to aid absorption.

There's a product by Barielle I think called one minute manicure which is an oil-based scrub and I'm sure Crabtree & Evelyn do one called the same. It's more of a slough-off thing though. Both are great.

I make a scrub using brown sugar and olive oil. Warm in the microwave, use to exfoliate, rinse and pay dry and moisturise. I like the nip+fab dry hand fix, or the neutrogena one. Got given a soap and glory one over Xmas which isn't bad for after washing up.

Using a cuticle oil improves my hands massively aswell. They are far better than they were. Used to be split bleeding and rough. Now they are much smoother and the skin looks healthier.

Flexitol heel balm on the hands - only thing that works for me. It has 25% urea whereas the hand cream only has 10%. My hands are a right state without it

Ooo, I might try Flexitol too. A while back I had some left over Lansinoh and used that at night with some cotton gloves from the Body Shop. It was quite gloopy but helped I think.

I was extremely sceptical, but was sold the Body Shop hemp hand cream at a charity thing. It is fabulous.

My children are no longer embarrassed by my ancient crone hands

Sea Salt and oil rub
Then Vaseline + BodyShop cotton gloves overnight

Flexitol and then cotton gloves on for the night makes a huge difference. Otherwise, a soak in warm water, then a thick covering of vaseline and gloves (you can get them in the first aid section in Boots) overnight is good

Great suggestions everyone, thanks. Smooth, young hands here I come.

Another fan of flexitol foot cream, not the hand cream.It does the job if left on over night. It makes up in performance what it lacks in glamour.

My hands were that bad they were actually flaky. Yes it looked as disgusting as it sounds. I lathered them in aqueous and wore cotton gloves over night. You can get a giant tub of aqueous from boots etc and its dirt cheap. It cleared up in about a week.