I've been meaning to post this for ages but anyway...
Since I stopped using antibacterial hand wash and just use regular liquid soap my hands are looking SO much better! Moisturising with a nice hand cream too helps.
For months & months my hands were terrible: dry & flaky on both sides & sore cracks along knuckles & sides of fingers. Hand cream only helped until the next time I washed my hands. My hands looked about 20yrs older than they should.
Thought it was just winter/overwashing etc until I went away for a week where there was only regular soap. Within that week I'd already noticed the difference, and then the penny finally dropped that it was the antibacterial stuff at home we were using.
Maybe I'm a bit late to the party on this, but wanted to share in case anyone else was yet to twig!