Hand Creams - Choosing the Right One

Your hands cannot hide the tides of time – unless you use the right hand cream to keep your youthful splendor.   If you're interested in pursuing the fountain of youth for your skin, using the right hand cream is fundamental.

Moisturizing Unlocks the Key
Keeping your hands consistently moisturized is important to keeping to skin soft, supple, and youthful.  Once your skin has dried out, it requires much more moisturizing to revive it to its supple state.  Looking at a withered plant is a perfect example; this requires much more watering and pampering to return to its plump, vicarious state.     

Keeping hand cream in easy access is very important for regular moisturizing.  Moisturize your hands in the morning after showering, when your pores are open and the moisturizer can seep in more easily.  In the winter time, when the air is especially dry, be sure to moisturize even more frequently, so that you can avoid getting irritating and unsightly chapped skin on your hands.  Your hands – and your anti-aging efforts – will thank you.

Choosing Rich Hand Creams
There are an abundance of hand creams available on the market, ranging from bottles that sell for $1 to specialty concoctions that are hundreds of dollars.  However, regardless of the price of the moisturizer, the only value of hand cream is how well it delivers the moisture – which depends upon its ingredients. 

Typically, the most prevalent ingredient in hand creams is water, which forms the base for all of the other ingredients to come together.  It is the next series of ingredients that determine the value of the hand cream – and you want to see moisturizing oils, such as sweet almond oil and grape seed oil. 

If you see jojoba oil in the first five ingredients, then you most likely have a great hand cream.  Jojoba oil is by far one of the most expensive moisturizing oils, and it works beautifully in creating supple, smooth, and soft skin. 

On the other hand, if the first set of ingredients is difficult to pronounce and include alcohol, then you should quickly set the bottle down.  Some hand cream manufacturers unfortunately create products that are indeed bad for your skin – but look, smell, and feel great.  These hand cream companies are appealing to your other senses for you to make the purchase, but do not have your best interest at heart.

Using SPF on Your Hands

You certainly know about the importance of using SPF on your face to prevent wrinkles, sun spots, and other aging markers.  However, your hands are just as important in the fight against damaging UV rays.  Making sure that your hands have SPF protection, even when you are simply driving in your car or running errands, will keep them supple and youthful. 

Do not allow your hands to reveal your age.  Instead, by thoughtfully choosing the right hand cream and protecting your hands with SPF, you can keep the tides of time away from your beautiful hands.