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Gardeners hands! Best cream?

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  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    I haven't read all posts so apologies if I' m repeating, natural products are best, almond oil and gloves to sleep in should help, natural plant and nut oils are absorbed by your skin more effectively than anything with paraffin which sits on top, that's more effective as barrier

  • bev allenbev allen Posts: 19

    I find Aveeno the best hand cream, its a bit more expensive than some but its really effective on sore, dry over washed hands, I'm paranoid about hand washing and get really sore hands especially in the winter but this is always beside my sink and in my handbag and really does the trick.

     

  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Bekkie, I forgot to say why I asked about tomatoes......the reason is that they seem to irritate my hands really badly, the yellow stuff on the stems itches like mad whenever I go near them and my dermatitis flares up image I wasn't sure if it was definitely the toms but after only going near the toms a couple if times this week I know that it is image So, I thought it might be making your hands worse, but obviously not.

  • Marg48Marg48 Posts: 24

    My hands too get in a terrible state, hate wearing gloves but years ago the model Marie Helvin David Bailey the photographers girlfriend said she used sugar and cheap cooking. oil to exfoliate her skin, works a treat been using it for years, hope this is of some help.

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Peeling spuds makes it worse, must be the starch image



    Yeah,toms are hairy, i react to that type of thing too, lung wort comfrey etc, when i was little it was my job to take the side shoots off the toms, ewwww - green smelly fingers!
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Ive heard of salt and olive oil, but that was a prep for fake tan! image
  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    I use salt and olive oil as a body scrub, love it image

    On Wednesday I bought some of my favourite hand cream, W S Robson (Chain Bridge Honey Farm), I buy it at one of my customers and it has sweet almond, jojoba, safflower and oat oils in, honey, beeswax, a few others bits and lavender essential oil, it is lovely and makes my hands so soft image

  • lm189lm189 Posts: 6
    Hemp cream for the body shop!
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