5 kinds of hand cream. How to choose?

Every woman knows how important hand care is. It is the hands that often give out the age of a woman.

Scruffy hands crossed out and stylish clothes, and fashionable hair, and gorgeous makeup.

Let's take a closer look at how to choose the right hand cream.

To begin with, it should be mentioned that hand cream, like face cream, has to perform a certain function. Often we stop at choosing one hand cream (universal) and expect miraculous transformations from it. But this is impossible!

Indeed, in the care of the skin of the face and neck, we always use several creams (day, evening, sunscreen, etc.) depending on the desired result. Hand care requires the same approach.

Separate the cream on the functionality.

Hand cream should:

moisturize

protect

saturate (nourish) with essential vitamins and microelements.

1. Moisturizing hand cream.

The skin of the hands needs to be moisturized even more than the skin of the face. Our hands are subject to constant testing: drying, chapping, soiling, exposure to aggressive detergents, etc. During the day, after each hand wash, you should apply a moisturizer to maintain the water balance of the skin.

The composition of the moisturizer necessarily contains more than 60% water.

In addition, the composition of a good moisturizer should include natural extracts, toning and protecting the skin from bacteria (green tea, calendula, St. John's wort, nettle, etc.).

The texture of the moisturizer is light, airy. The cream is easily applied and quickly absorbed into the skin, leaving no greasy residue. You can use this cream as much as you like during the day. Repeated application of moisturizer will only benefit.

The only restriction: Apply a moisturizer for 15-20 minutes before entering the frost, so that the moisturizer has absorbed well.

2. Nourishing cream

If we apply the moisturizer to the daytime, then the nourishing cream, definitely, the night one.

The task of nourishing cream:

Deliver as much beneficial substances as possible into the deep layers of the skin to maintain elasticity.

nourish the skin with vitamins and trace elements,

stimulate cell regeneration.

Accordingly, you need to apply a nourishing cream only after you have finished all the housework, before going to bed and only on clean hands.

This rule is explained by the fact that nourishing creams "destroy" for some time the superficial protection of the skin and stretch deep into the nutrients. If you, after applying the nourishing cream, go to wash the dishes, then definitely damage your skin, “feeding” it with bacteria and cleaning products.

Therefore, we apply a nourishing cream only at night, before bedtime. Many cosmetologists and manicurists advise, after applying a nourishing cream, wear thin cotton gloves.

We turn to the protective creams. All protective creams form a film on the surface of the skin, which protects the skin of the hands from various types of damaging factors.

3. Protective cream (winter)

This type of cream is designed for frosty weather. It forms a film on the skin, which protects the upper layers of the skin from hypothermia.

Hypothermia provokes peeling and irritation, as well as dehydration. Do not neglect this type of cream, despite the presence of mittens or gloves.

4. Sunscreen for hands.

Unfortunately, many women do not protect their hands from ultraviolet radiation. And absolutely in vain. It is tan that contributes to the rapid appearance of wrinkles and pigment spots on the hands.

If in the winter hands are protected from frost even by mittens, then in the summer the hands are fully open. In addition, tanned hands do not look aesthetically (as dirty).

5. The most essential hand cream is a hydrophilic protective cream.

No woman can do without daily chores. We all deal with cleaning and detergents a few hours a week. No need to explain the negative impact they have on the skin of our hands.

Hydrophilic creams form a film that protects the skin of the hands from the effects of an aggressive environment of detergents.

You can also recommend to protect the hands of silicone-based cream from "strong" products containing chlorine, acids, etc.

There are creams for every taste and wallet on the market, so every woman can afford such a cream. Of course, you can use ordinary rubber gloves, but they are not always comfortable and often break.

Take care of yourself!