The cold of winter and dry air take both their toll on your hands! Here are a few suggestions for treating the most common problems. It’s time to fight back with an iron hand… in a velvet glove, of course!
Your priority: treating dry nails
Are your cuticles are dehydrated and constantly peeling? Are your nails split, brittle or ridged? It’s time to give them a truly nourishing treatment!
Choose an oil specially designed to moisturize the cuticles: apply it every night at bedtime to restore the suppleness of the skin. For a more complete treatment, choose serums or creams designed to revitalize both hands and nails.
Your priority: an intensive hydration cure for your hands
Low temperatures, repeated hand washing and dryness caused by heating produce a dangerous cocktail, which can leave hands extremely dry, chapped or cracked.
Choose a shock treatment!
- During the day, choose a rich, highly nourishing cream, in a compact format: you can leave the tube near your computer screen, and use it every time you wash your hands.
- In the evening, make sure to apply a good amount of cream before going to bed: it will have time to penetrate your skin deeply while you sleep. For an even more intensive cure, slather your hands with your favourite protective treatment and slip on a pair of protective gloves. The heat released by your body during the night will generate moisture, which the insulating effect of the gloves will turn into a moisturizing solution.
Personnelle
Extreme Relief Hand Cream, 97 ml
Hand cream made with colloidal oatmeal. Long-lasting. Non-greasy. Fragrance free.
CeraVe
Therapeutic Hand Cream, 85 g
CeraVe therapeutic hand cream is a vital part of a daily skin care routine to moisturize and protect your hands from harmful irritants and allergens, so they look and feel soft and healthy.
Your priority: repair cracks
Cracks hands and joints can cause painful micro-injuries. The solution? A treatment combined with prevention!
Choose a cream with healing and sterilizing properties, able to reduce the damage. It will help rebuild damaged skin and speed up healing, while restoring the flexibility and level of hydration needed to prevent new injuries.
La Roche-Posay
Cicaplast Gel B5 Epidermal Recovery Accelerator Skincare, 40 ml
Skin recovery accelerator. Soothing and repairing. Post-procedure, post-stitches. Pro-recovery skincare. Anti-bacterial texture. Fragrance-free. Paraben-free.
Avène
Cicalfate Hand Repairing Barrier Cream, 100 ml
Repairs, soothes and protects your very dry and irritated hands with faster action. Repairing and antibacterial agents. Fragrance-free, paraben-free.
YOUR PRIORITY: EXFOLIATING AND RESTORING
Did you know that there are products available designed specifically for damaged hands? Just slip on the special gloves, which are soaked in the treatment formula, wait for 10 minutes, then remove the gloves and massage in the excess cream.
To help make your mask even more effective, use a good scrub before applying your treatment. By removing dead skin cells and helping your skin breathe, you’ll boost the performance of the active ingredients in your mask.
Choose scrubbing formulas with coarse grains, powerful enough to dislodge impurities from the epidermis. Massage in to activate the blood circulation to the fingertips and then rinse with cold water.
Aveeno
Repairing CICA Hand Mask, 1 unit
Aveeno Repairing CICA hand mask, is designed to help restore essential moisture to extra-dry sensitive skin. Give dry cracked hands some much-needed relief, while making them look smoother and feel softer. These moisturizing gloves are the latest addition to the Aveeno Skin Relief collection and contain both shea butter and levels of prebiotic oat, which are known to have soothing and nourishing properties.
