Ooh, oooooh, Witchy Woman…
This is stating the obvious, but I will spend outrageous money on skincare for my face, provided that the results can justify the credit card statement. Thankfully, the years of skin splurgery have done well for me and on a good day I can pass for a decade younger than my actual age. But, with all this attention on my face I somehow neglected to treat my hands with the same care. Though I have many glamorous tubes of hand creams with fancy names tucked in drawers, displayed on my night stand and stashed in my handbag, I am guilty of both hoarding them and ignoring them, never managing to actually use them. Instead, my aging hands have been short-changed, subsiding solely on the extra blob of whatever baby lotion I’m using on my kids plus multiple-daily pumps of hospital-strength (and criminally skin-crackling) hand sanitizers.
So, it should have been no surprise when my son recently accused me of having “witch hands.” Now, at the time, I brushed off the insult, reminding myself that the green Play-Dough under my nails and splatters of craft glue all over my palms would make anyone look witchy. But, after I scrubbed them clean, even I couldn’t argue the truth: red, cracked skin on my knuckles, crepe-paper like texture and a sprinkling of sun spots.
Since that day, I have been slathering my hands with cream after luscious cream, gleefully amazed at how quickly the right magic mix of emollients can restore my hands to Fair Maiden state. Following are my extremely non-scientific, wholly personal favorite splurge-worthy remedies for Instant Witch Hand Healing. Ding-dong, the witch is, indeed dead.
Kiehl’s Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, $12.50 for 2.5 ounces at www.kiehls.com. This is my favorite bedtime cream – like an invisible glove of moisture that gives you smooth, soft, scale-free skin by morning.
L’Annine Fresh Lemon Oil Hand and Body Cream, $16 for 2.2 ounces at www.beautyhabit.com. The super sunshine-y lemon oil scent is reason enough for accolades and the moisture-rich, silicone-based cream is sublime.
A consistent spa best-seller, Bliss High Intensity Hand Cream, $18 for 2.5 ounces at www.blissworld.com, is super-rich yet non-greasy, sinks in fast and works wonders for ragged cuticles.
The cream that made the brand a household name, L’Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream, $26 for 5.2 ounces at www.loccitane.com, lives up to its hype. This supremely smoothing, fast-absorbing healing cream is packed with a whopping 20% shea butter, and a light scent of jasmine and ylang-ylang.
Like a spa paraffin-wrap in a tube, the indulgent feel of Estée Lauder Re-Nutrive Intensive Smoothing Hand Cream, $45 for 3.4 ounces at www.esteelauder.com, even lasts through a hand washing. It’s deeply hydrating, helps to fade sunspots, smoothes lines and creepiness and is worth the spend.
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