Final month my little sister texted me from Sephora, questioning which hand cream I advisable for very dry pores and skin. I knew my reply instantly: Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve.
“Get the Kiehl’s Hand Lotion!” I replied in all caps, my very own beloved tube of it on my bedside. She was, in any case, in her personal phrases, “cracking,” and I knew this was the one product that might get the job finished.
“You don’t get it,” I asserted. “I’m so keen about it.” She went on to buy a tube and requested no additional questions, as she is aware of higher than anybody that I’m hardly ever this passionate about one product — particularly one thing so simple as hand cream.
That is additionally after I realised: I ought to in all probability write about this.
It might appear foolish to really feel this strongly about hand lotion, however I consider the palms (and toes) are far too typically neglected on this planet of skincare (and as a longtime magnificence editor, I do know a factor or two about this terrain). Everybody obsesses over their face, neck, and even scalp hydration, solely remembering their extremities when wintertime-induced dryness comes again round.
By the point we attain for the hand cream, not to mention a pleasant hand cleaning soap (which is an entire different dialog I can’t wait to have), our pores and skin is already within the state my sister’s was: so dry that it’s cracking!
What occurred to preventive skincare, huh? Precisely. Which is why final yr, I sought to alter that — particularly as a result of I’ve to scrub my palms so many instances every day (I’ve 4 pets).
Within the fall I started to include the Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve into my bedtime routine, and inside weeks I used to be hooked: my palms had been noticeably softer, and even my manicures had been lasting longer than earlier than. (My grandmother’s manicurist as soon as advised me to use moisturiser to my cuticles. It’s mainly a type of nail slugging.) My cuticles additionally seemed softer and the pores and skin round my nails fully stopped peeling.
Now I don’t depart house with out it. I at all times pack a journey dimension — or fill a travel-size tube if the two.5 oz. possibility is bought out. In any other case my palms really feel unhappy and bare, or like prunes upon waking. Even after spending 10 days within the literal desert that’s Los Angeles in the course of the dry month of December, I’m happy to report that my palms are silkier and softer than ever, due to the trial tube I introduced with me for my vacation trip.
