What is your very favourite hand cream?

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I'm looking for something for my horrible dry winter hands, made worse by all the hand washing. Bonus points if it also smells gorgeous (no particular skin sensitivity)! I don't mind spending a bit if it actually works

Clarins hand and nail treatment

I am loving Dr Organic right now.

Another vote for Neals Yard. They do a few. All smell amazing and are really good hand creams. Expensive but a little goes a long way.

Weleda skin food (they do a ‘light’ version now which isn’t as thick as the original) and if I get any particularly sore dry bits or cuts I put lanolin on them

Garnier 7 day intensive. De ages my hands by about 10 years and soaks in fast.

If your hands are painfully bad get some epiderm cream from the chemist. A friend with bleeding cracks and dryness says it's the only thing that helps. Smells a bit medical though.

Clarins..unscented but fantasic quick solution

Clarins super restorative

Neutrogena because it's unscented so it doesn't make me itch, and because it works.

Clarins Creme Jeunesse des Mains or LOccitane Cherry Blossom. That is it. I find the rest too greasy and wet. It took years to find these two.

I vote for Palmer's cocoa butter

Neutrogena or BS hemp for me. I have a tube of one or the other in the living room, next to my laptop, and in the bathroom to try and remember hi do it after every hand wash. My hands are actually disgusting at the moment, I keep forgetting gloves when I go out.

Nursem is so nice and they donate a tube to a nurse for everyone purchased. Available at Boots and other stores.

I have been using the sanctuary foot balm on my hands! it's cheap and really effective, smells great too. All that hand washing and sanitising wrecks your hands!

L'occitane Shea Butter or Body Shop Hemp

Jurlique rose. Love it but very expensive.

Love l’occitane hand creams, lots of lovely scents.

Nursem smells lovely, I like that you can buy a big pump bottle of it.

I like la roche posay, it doesnt smell at all and soaks straight in, so I can do things after I have put some on.
I like the idea of nice smelling hand cream, but never end up using them because my hands end up too greasy to do anything.

Nivea creme in the blue pot. It isn't specifically for our hands but it is so cheap and very effective.

Neutrogena Visibly Renew and Astral

Kiehls

I like Atrixo, nice smell, not too heavy and greasy, and a big pot lasts ages. Cheap enough too. You don't need a lot and it's very effective. I put it on my hands before I go to bed. Sometimes on my neck too!

Norwegian formula

Neutrogena Norwegian formula, and the Avon glycerine one.

Crabtree and Evelyn feel and smell lovely, and they're my "everyday" creams, but the above are better for dry cracked hands.

Body Shop hemp is amazing