Keeping your Hands Young....

Top Tips For Looking After Your Hands and Nails

Your hands take a real beating throughout the day! They’re exposed to water, harsh soaps and detergents that can dry the skin out. Your hands can get chapped or cracked just from being out in the cold wind, from doing house work, or just day to day activities. On top of it all, your fingernails, which are made of keratin, naturally can get dry and brittle with age, and may even turn yellow. Luckily, there are a plethora of fantastic products to help you with your hand and nail care.

How to Keep Hands Healthy

Applying a hand cream or balm to the hand and nails on a regular basis will help keep them healthy and moist.  Just like with skin, it’s important to protect the moisture in their nails. Dermatologists recommend rubbing vitamin E, or specially formulated cuticle creams or oils into the cuticles at night. Circulation and proper nutrition are also important for good skin and nail health. Massaging your nails and fingertips every day will increase circulation to the skin around the nails to keep it healthy and prevent it from cracking. A healthy diet rich in calcium and omega 3 oils will also help keep your nails healthy.

5 Tips for Healthy Skin and Nails

1: The delicate skin on the hands needs to be protected from the sun to minimize the signs of sun damage and discolouration. Some creams combine advanced sun protection with moisturizing agents and are designed to be non-greasy and quick absorbing.
2: Your cuticles are an integral part of your nail care. Treat them gently! First use a cuticle remover to soften the cuticles then push them back delicately with Orange Stick but do not cut or trim them. Always moisturise them well.
3: If you do housework and your hands are in water often, wear gloves to help keep your nails from becoming dry and brittle. Your nails can absorb up to a quarter of their weight in water, which causes them to expand. However when they dry, they contract. This continuous expansion and contraction may weaken the nail and cause breakage.
4: Your nails also need to be treated gently to keep them from breaking. Excessive buffing and filing can weaken the nail. So treat them gently, buff them lightly and use tools that are kind to the nails such as glass nail files.
5: Avoid products such as nail polish removers that contain acetone or formaldehyde, which can dry out nails.

Top Products To Achieve Soft Healthy Hands
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Hand Wash

Miessence Refillable Foaming Hand Soap
Miessence Refillable Foaming Hand Soap provides a convenient, economical and luxurious hand washing experience. More than a thorough clean thanks to purifying ingredients, such as organic lemon myrtle essential oil.
150ml RRP: $17.55

Australian Native Rainforest Botanics Lemon Myrtle Hand Wash
[A’kin] Australian Native Rainforest Botanics Lemon Myrtle Hand Wash features Australian-grown Lemon Myrtle Oil, known for its anti-bacterial properties, in a synergistic blend of softening, skin-kind cleansers and stimulating aromatherapy oils for the ultimate in hand care.
240ml RRP: $13.50

Best Smelling Hand Creams

Max Brenner Madagascar Vanilla Hand Moisturiser
Hand Moisturiser is enriched with Ivory Coast Cocoa Butter: Upon contact with the body, the cocoa butter nourishes & enriches the skin, improves elasticity & serves as a source of antioxidants. Evening Primrose Oil: The oil contains essential fatty acids which are vital for the skin’s functions & for one’s entire body.
100ml RRP: $20.00

Jurlique Jasmine Hand Cream
Jasmine Hand Cream provides long-lasting moisturisation and hydration with a special blend of natural ingredients including Safflower & Macadamia Oils, Honey, Glycerin & Aloe Vera.  Calendula, Viola and Chamomile Extracts help to soothe and comfort skin whilst Carrot Root Extract and Marshmallow help to hydrate and soften skin, leaving skin feeling silky and supple.
40ml RRP: $27.00

Natural Hand Creams

Yuva Intensive Hand & Nail Cream
A highly effective, non greasy formula designed for hands and nails that need care. Macadamia Nut, Jojoba Seed and Olive Fruit oils help moisturise dry fragile skin. Rich in antioxidants Vitamin E and Green Tea extract to help prevent the signs of ageing. Black Cohosh extract helps increase the skins own hydration and production of collagen, while Panthenol speeds healing and binds moisture in the outer layers of the skin and nails for smoother, more youthful looking hands and nails.
75ml RRP: $43.00

[A’kin] Unscented, Intensive Hand, Nail & Cuticle Treatment
Treat your hands to some intensive pampering with the [A’kin] Unscented, Intensive Hand, Nail & Cuticle Treatment. The uniquely pure [A’kin] hand and nail cream formulations are non-greasy and rapidly absorbed, delivering natural healing ingredients deep into the hands.
75ml RRP $16.95

Anti – Aging Hand Creams

Guinot Multi-Action Vital Hand Care
Longue Vie Main is a hand and nail treatment, which restores the hands softness and suppleness.  The cream protects against daily aggressions and UV rays, whilst stimulating cellular renewal and minimising the appearance of pigmentation marks.
75ml RRP: $53.55

Alpha-H Age Delay Hand and Cuticle Care Cream
Alpha-H Age Delay Hand and Cuticle Care is a beautiful, rich, silky cream, designed to restore moisture, softness and youthfulness to hands that are dry and prematurely aged. It also strengthens and smoothes cuticles and is completely absorbed by the skin without leaving an oily residue.
100mL   RRP:  $37.95
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Lendan Infinitime Age Delay Restoring Hand Cream
An easily absorbed age delay hand cream with a smoothing texture. It deeply moisturises, repairs and
nourishes the skin thanks to its formula that includes an effective concentrate of natural peptides that firms and regenerates the skin from the inside, preventing the formation of wrinkles.
75ml RRP: $77.00


Pelactiv Hand Cream
Unlike aggressive treatments such as glycolic acid that may deliver instant results but end up dehydrating the skin, lactic acid moisturises the skin so no dry patches appear over time, instead leaving the skin feeling super smooth and hydrated. The Pelactiv solutions use totally pure and natural organic AHA’s.
75ml RRP $32.00

Luxury Hand Creams

La Prairie Cellular Hand Cream
An intensely revitalising blend of marine-derived complex, rich in minerals, combined with exclusive Cellular Complex and an innovative Moisture Complex that creates an invisible barrier to maintain a comfortable level of hydration.  Effective anti-oxidant protection comes from Sprirulina, Vitamin E, Green Tea and Grape Seed Extracts.
100ml RRP: $155.00

Estée Lauder Re-Nutriv Intensive Smoothing Hand Crème
Combines a luxuriant texture with extraordinary ingredients to instantly hydrate, smooth and comfort dry, delicate hands, including cuticles, while providing outstanding protection from the damaging effects of free radical assaults. Formulated with an exclusive anti-spot technology, this luscious though non-greasy hand crème helps even out visible skin tone for more youthful looking hands.  Plus, hands feel soft and supple for hours even after multiple hand washings.
100ml RRP: $100.00