Can you recommend a moisturizer for very dry hands?

[Blueballoon3]

My hands are so dry they are bleeding. My usual moisturizer is not sorting them out. Very grateful for any recommendations!!

Aveeno blue lotion best ive used.Not their hand cream.

Another vote for Body Shop hemp hand. It's the best! Tube lasts ages as only need a small amount x

Atrixo
Currently using Aveno and aveda

Might look at the Body Shop hemp cream. I buy everything else there and I really like their other hand creams

My hands have been so painful recently as I seem to be washing them all the time. I use hand cream religiously but found it's been more painful as the skin cracks - what's actually working really well for me at the moment is using a No7 intensive mask which is far too rich for my face. It seems to be working brilliantly at healing my hands and I'm glad I've got a way to use it up!

Try smothering your hands in Neutrogena Swedish formula and covering with cotton gloves overnight. Can buy these cheaply on Amazon/ebay - make sure they're 100% cotton though.

Thank you so much for the replies!!

Eucerin 5% urea hand cream. It actively heals, not just moisturises. Use it sparingly in the daytime as it is quite sticky, then more thickly at night with cotton gloves.

Udderly smooth hand cream - recommended for those undergoing chemotherapy

I always come onto these threads to suggest Udderly Smooth. My hands were cracked and bleeding way before covid and nothing could fix it. This was a total game changer. Applied multiple times a day at first and my hands were fixed in less than a week. Then dropped to weekly maintenance applications and now I just use it occasionally. I still use nice handcreams too but this was the only thing that tackled the problem in a hardcore repairing kind of way. Seriously good stuff - the Amazon reviews speak for themselves. (It also worked wonders on my scaly shins.)

QV cream

www.qvskincare.co.uk/all-products/qv-cream.html

@DaisyRenton18

My hands have been so painful recently as I seem to be washing them all the time. I use hand cream religiously but found it's been more painful as the skin cracks - what's actually working really well for me at the moment is using a No7 intensive mask which is far too rich for my face. It seems to be working brilliantly at healing my hands and I'm glad I've got a way to use it up!

When mine are that cracked and painful I put some sudocream on over night which helps.

Another one for body shop hand hemp. Amazing stuff!

I second the Ultimate Hand Salve by Kiehl’s. It has out my hands which kept cracking and were very sore during to this. Expensive but works.

It has SORTED out...

It is brilliant, isn't it @balkanscot - I absolutely love it.

Mixa in the orange tube for 'mains abimées' is very similar and much cheaper. Available online, eg www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FNQKT6Q?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Just ordered the Body Shop one for me and DD to try. Fingers crossed!

I like aveeno.
I have used neutrogena and body shop hemp in the past but prefer Aveeno as it is less greasy

I have dermatitis on both hands, its really bad in winter and with all the constant hand washing. My hands are like lizard skin with red cracked patches on the knuckles and thumb joints.

The only cream that reliably works for me is Dr Hauschka hand cream, it has a red stripe on the tube. I've tried so so many and a lot of them feel nice for a short while but then actually leave my skin feeling worse a couple of hours later. Anything with shea butter in does this to me, along with petroleum jelly, petrolatum, mineral oil or similar. So its maybe worth reading the ingredients of whatever you use in case your skin dryness is caused by a reaction to some of these ingredients.

Diprobase

O'Keefe's

@Fauvist

It is brilliant, isn't it *@balkanscot* - I absolutely love it.

Mixa in the orange tube for 'mains abimées' is very similar and much cheaper. Available online, eg ]]

@Fauvist indeed! Some reviewers complain about its “medicinal” smell but it smells nothing like that. Vague eucalyptus smell and I quite like it.

Off to wait until I get paid in 8 days, so I can reorder the 150 ml tub.

Yes, I quite like the smell too! I am not one for florals or vanilla, though, and do actually rather love the slightly medicinal eucalyptus scent.

I get very dry hands (long standing compulsive hand washing disorder, made way worse by Covid!) and find that Palmers Cocoa Butter hand cream is brilliant. I just pick it up with my supermarket shop. They have a concentrated version too, which I use overnight. Makes great foot cream too.

All these are cheap and versatile.
Zinc oxide (Sudocrem) to rescue chapped and bleeding areas. Leave it on overnight or at least a couple of hours when you won’t wash it off. I also find it works well overnight on sore chapped lips but I’m not sure if swallowing zinc oxide is good for you...

Neutrogena as a five-minute hand moisturiser, but the sticky texture is a bit hard to work in.
Nivea cream in the blue tin whenever you like. Keep several tins (at work, in the sitting room while watching TV, travel size in your bag) so you’re reminded.

I tried l’Occitane Shea butter hand cream and other fragrances but if I forgot to apply it even for half a day my hands felt strangely irritated and exposed.

Wear rubber gloves, winter gloves and dry your hands thoroughly after each wash.

Lanisoh nipple cream has been doing wonders for my hands!
I've also stopped using hand sanitiser, which was causing me a lot of problems. So far, not dead.