At the core of beauty and wellness are basic hygiene practices. Hand washing, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, takes the spotlight. There are many kinds of hand wash products to suit one’s personality and needs.
Browsing through what’s in the market, I find that you have to supplement hand washing with hand creams. Frequently subjecting one’s hands to washing, alcohol disinfectant and day-to-day work makes them dry. Dry hands can also cause other problems.
I suggest you make hand washing a regular ritual with a hand cream that addresses your concerns.
Gentle and moisturizing
For sensitive hands that need extra TLC, go for a cleanser that is gentle. The Yope Liquid Hand Soap is mild and ecofriendly. It’s made from plant-based glycerine, derived from sunflower oil. This also helps the skin be more smooth and gain elasticity. For healing, it has regenerating vitamin B5 and allantoin.
Follow this up with a hand cream like the Evoluderm Huile Precieuse Moisturizing Hand Cream. This paraben-free and dermatologically tested formula moisturizes and protects dry and damaged hands. The formula isn’t thick, so it’s quickly absorbed. On top of that, you get the benefits of Morocco’s Argan Oil.
Yope and Evoluderm are available at Beauty Bar branches.
At-home treatment
At home, I always keep a bottle of good hand wash for family and guests. Neal’s Yard Remedies Bee Lovely Hand Wash is best because it doesn’t cause dry hands. It contains moisturizing organic honey and energizing organic orange and mandarin essential oils.
And then apply Mario Badescu Elasto-Seamollient Hand Cream. It combines the Seamollient and Vitamin E, which protect the skin and promote natural healing at the cellular level. It heals damaged hands with a formula that doesn’t leave behind a slick.
Neal’s Yard Remedies and Mario Badescu are available at Rustan’s The Beauty Source.
On-the-go care
In between tasks and when you can’t go to a sink, use a hand sanitizer. Sephora Collection has an alcohol-based hand cleansing gel that sanitizes and moisturizes. There are six scents to choose from: coconut, grapefruit, almond, watermelon, dragonfruit and cherry.
Given the humid temperature, a good hand cream to have in your handbag is the “delightfully light and deceptively nourishing” Lanolips Rose Hand Cream Everyday. Lanolin, the hero product of the company, resembles and mimics your own skin oils and holds 200 percent of its weight in moisture. You also get an extra treat since it has rose oil, shea butter, grape seed oil and jojoba seed oil. Sephora Collection is available at sephora.ph while Lanolips can be ordered via cultbeauty.com.
Kid-friendly
The good habit of hand washing should also be taught to children. I suggest something that doesn’t dry out hands and comes in a subtle scent. L’Occitane’s Verbena Cleansing Hand Wash carries only gentle ingredients and isn’t over-fragranced. It’s enriched with organic verbena extract from Provence.
The Body Shop Strawberry Hand Cream helps nourish hands with a gel-cream texture that doesn’t feel sticky and absorbs fast. It also helps heal cracked cuticles with cold-pressed strawberry seed oil and community-trade shea from Ghana.
Hand Cream