skin on hands losing elasticity... good hand cream?

Anonymous
thanks!
Anonymous
Good old fashion Vasaline. My mom is over sixty and has beautiful hands. She was a stay home mom with three kids, no housekeeper and never work dishwashing gloves. I've started her "secret", but find it a bit too greasy. So I only put it on my cuticles and tops of my hands. Once in a while I will rub it on my whole hands, but only if I know I can just sit for a while.
Anonymous
I haven't found Vaseline very helpful. Actually, vacations from housework are the very, very best treatments for my hands! The second best thing has been Ahava's foot lotion. There is a hand lotion, and it's plenty nice, but the foot lotion is heavier duty.
zumbamama
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I have a paraffin foot/hand bath that makes them really soft (got it at Sally's). You dip them in a couple times, then wrap in plastic bags, and then wrap again in towels. Then there's all kinds of paraffin blends (with aloe, eucalyptus, etc.).
Anonymous
Hands are my weak point, too. I'm 42, and people tell me I look 32, but truly my hands look like I'm 52. I've been doing sunblock on my face and neck since I was 18 and it's worked wonders, but I never put it on my hands!

So now, I use Aquaphor every few nights and put on cotton gloves over it. I'm not thrilled with the look or feel of this, but it really helps.

During the day, I use Kiehl's Deluxe Hand and Body Lotion in whatever scent smells good when I buy it. It's filled with chemicals and would be a naturalist's nightmare, but it's really helpful for getting rid of the crepey look on the backs of my hands.

And of course, now I do sunblock. About 30 years too late probably.
Anonymous
I am about to make your day, and break your heart. Or at least your bank account.

http://www.artofbeauty.com/scrpt/scr.dll/cat?brand=1

This company makes the best intensive hand cream I have ever seen. My mother tried it and bought some and she never spends money on stuff like this.

Their intensive lip balm is also amazing. Nothing compares to it.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I am about to make your day, and break your heart. Or at least your bank account.

http://www.artofbeauty.com/scrpt/scr.dll/cat?brand=1

This company makes the best intensive hand cream I have ever seen. My mother tried it and bought some and she never spends money on stuff like this.

Their intensive lip balm is also amazing. Nothing compares to it.


PP, the hand cream I found was only $20, not expensive at all.
Anonymous
There are two different strengths -- I mean the intensive healing hand cream. And there are different sizes -- 20 will get you a small tube.
Anonymous
Once the elastin and connective tissue breaks down in your hand skin, nothing's going to bring it back.

Want proof? stroll down the Upper East Side and look at hands and the faces that go with them. The faces and necks have all been 'addressed' by the very best surgeons and creams and injectables that money can buy. Presumably there's a willingness there to spend the same on the tissue paper hands, and yet, the hands still look their age.





Anonymous
Why are you being such a bummer?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Why are you being such a bummer?


No worries, she's wrong. You can have injections done on the backs of the hands.
Anonymous
And instead of thanking me for referring you to the best hand cream EVER, one of you insulted me by saying it "wasn't expensive at all." To me 20+ for hand cream is expensive. I've had to go without this winter.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Why are you being such a bummer?


No worries, she's wrong. You can have injections done on the backs of the hands.



But most women won't do it because it limits the range of motion in a body part you need to use every day (unlike your forehead or the corners of your eye.) A friend of mine did this -- once -- and she said it's like walking around with wet nail polish on your fingers. You don't grip anything well, etc.

Also, injections don't address tissue-papery fingers.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:And instead of thanking me for referring you to the best hand cream EVER, one of you insulted me by saying it "wasn't expensive at all." To me 20+ for hand cream is expensive. I've had to go without this winter.


Huh? No one was intentionally insulting you. $120 is alot for a 6 ounce hand cream, $20 is not so expensive. Don't be so sensitive.
Anonymous
Was it these boards that I recently read where women in nursing homes compare hands instead of faces to see who's the youngest? Who'd have thought hands would be the test of age in old folks' homes?!
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