Best hand cream for sore, chapped hands?

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What hand creams can you recommend for dry, sore, chapped hands? I actually have red and broken skin in a couple of places mainly from washing up several times a day!

I do apply hand cream regularly throughout the day but just cheap ish Vaseline or Nivea ones that I grab while doing the tesco shop. Looking to invest in something a bit more heavy duty and luxury if it will do a better job of moisturising and preventing the chapped look.....

Body shop hemp cream is bloody good if your on a budget. I would wear it under my gardening gloves or sit with chuck away latex gloves on at night. It works s treat.

Neutrogena is great.
(Cien SOS hand concentrate is v similar and much cheaper! Thanks Lidl and the MNer who wrote about it recently!)
Gloves in a bottle creates a barrier between hands and environment. (Use hand cream over.)
Gloves when outside and rubber gloves for housework and washing up.

I second the body shop hemp cream, it repaired my cracked scaly hands in days

I get the same thing, I tried various hand creams but what is totally amazing is diprobase you can get tiny tubes in boots but we buy these www.amazon.co.uk/Doublebase-Diprobase-Cream-Emollient-500g/dp/B003I56NY6 they add a touch of class to the kitchen shelf...

We get massive vats of Cetraben/Diprobase on prescription. There's one beside every sink in the house! It's great- not oily in the slightest. Dr told me to wear gloves for housework, wash hands in cold water, apply cream after each washing and wear gloves outdoors. I get nasty cracks at the top of my finger where it joins the nail. They are really sore and take 2 wks to heal. Don't get them in summer though so it must be the cold.

Body Shop hemp cream, bloody brilliant stuff!

Any heavy duty cream but in cotton gloves for the whole night.

Brookville, I find creams with urea in v good for split skin like that, can't remember the brand but from Boots and there's one for feet and one for hands. Greasy, bit like Vaseline, but effective!

Another one voting for the hemp cream from body shop. Need the tiniest amount too!!

I find that the Body Shop hemp cream is too smelly, and Neutrogena doesn't really absorb for me, then it's greasy, then it doesn't help much .

My newest find is E45 hand cream (there are a couple of different ones). It absorbs (yay!), then it's greasy (boo!), but then my hands are a bit better (yay!).

Aveeno works for me but you need some rubber gloves more I think!

A thick layer of body shop Hemp Cream at night and I use their Almond Hand Cream during the day as scent is more appealing

Oh yes, and lots of any cream whatsoever and cotton gloves overnight (Boots sell them in the medicine bit).

I have very dry hands which are prone to chopping, and I've found the best hand cream to be the Neutrogena Norwedian Formula. It's the only one that absorbs well and doesn't feel greasy

*Norwegian, obviously

A vote for Body Shop Vitamin E cream (pink tube) the hemp doesn't do a thing on my hands but this is fantastic.

Another vote for Norwegian formula...magic stuff
And I have been known to use 'cracked heel cream' on my hands overnight

Kiehls.

I have tried EVERY hand cream in the land. This is the very best.

Another vote for the body shop hemp hand cream.

I often use olive oil.

Heel balm is sometimes the only thing that works for me ...

Crabtree and Evelyn Gardeners Hand Therapy is fab. I use Lansinoh on split and chapped, sore skin in the winter (esp. putting it on last thing at night to work overnight). Neutrogena Norwegian handcream is pretty good as well, but I find that I use the tube up v. quickly.

If you can get used to using rubber gloves to do the washing up it will help. Detergents can really strip the oils from your skin.

I've tried loads and my favourite is Dr Organic, manuka honey hand and nail cream. Seems to last longer than body shop hemp cream and smells much nicer. Hemp cream smells awful!

Handy gurugu by lush - not the greatest smelling hand cream so use at night. works though..even improved Psoriasis scales on my elbows.

Neutrogena Norwegian Formula.

I only discovered it recently, and this is the first winter I've not had cracked, eczema-ridden hands. Brilliant stuff; you only need a little and it soaks straight in.