Gardeners' Hands

Gardeners' hands can be put through a lot of injury and insult.  Especially if you don't wear gloves (like me).  Soil can have the effect of drying out hands leaving them course, rough and sometime even cracked.  Cracked skin is a sure sign of excessive dryness.

DRY CRACKED SKIN

Dry cracked skin, as previously stated, is a sure sign of excessive dryness.  If you're a gardener, looking after your hands is essential.  This can be done in many ways:-

Wear gloves, and good quality ones at that! Avoid letting your hand get dirty with soil from the garden.  Sometimes, it is difficult to be disciplined about wearing gloves especially when we are weeding and we need to be able to sort out the weeds from the flowers or plants.  This is where I fail.  I might start off with good intentions of wearing gloves and then I can't feel properly what I need to weed out so I take the gloves off.

If you are going to take the gloves off and get you hands dirtied then you might have to wash your hands very quickly thereafter and not let the dirt dry out the hands

Failing that, if you have spent a long time in the garden and the hands have been constantly dirty and are beginning to dry out then you need to apply a good quality hand cream with lashings of good oils such as coconut oil, cocoa butter, shea butter, sweet almond oil, apricot kernal oil.   A combination of these oils ensures you keep your hands moisturised.  Coupled with beeswax, which will offer protection against all elements you're going to be renowned as having green fingers - Dont know about that!!!

Take a look at our range of hand creams with natural oils and essential oils