How to Soften Your Hands
Pamper yourself by taking measures to soften your hands before going on a date or taking a trip to the beach. Since softening methods require hydration techniques, the extra softness can also help you feel better if you live or visit in a dry location. Softening your hands just takes a few minutes and the results can last for hours upon hours. You can soften your hands quickly or apply treatments overnight and enjoy soft hands the following day. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Liquid moisturizing soap
- Soft hand towel
- Shea butter lotion
- Cocoa butter lotion
- Baby oil
- Cotton gloves
- Cortizone cream
Instructions
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Wash your hands with a liquid moisturizing soap that contains exfoliating beads while giving yourself a short hand massage to improve blood flow. Avoid using scolding hot water since this might strip your skin of essential oils. Dry your hands with a soft hand towel. You want to wash your hands to avoid applying lotion on dirty skin. The exfoliating beads also help to slough off dead skin cells, which can help with the overall texture of your hands.
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Massage your hands with a thick Shea or cocoa cutter lotion for a few minutes. Add more lotion if your hands still feel dry. Rub the lotion into your hands with small circular motions.
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Place 1 tsp. of baby oil in the palm of your hand and gently massage this on both hands. This creates extra softness and you can add more as needed throughout the day. The Mayo Clinic says oil has more staying power than moisturizers and it prevents water from evaporating from the surface of your skin.
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Slather your hands with a thick layer of additional cocoa or Shea butter lotion before bed and put on soft cotton gloves. Sleep with this treatment on your hands all night and wake up to baby soft hands in the morning.
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Apply small dime-sized amounts of cortizone cream to dry patches of skin on your hands that don't go away after applying lotion or doing hand treatments. You may not need this, so only use cortizone if absolutely necessary.
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Tips & Warnings
If the mixture looks too dry add more olive oil, vice versa
If you dont have Olive Oil.. vegetable oil or Baby Oil will do
if you have dry/rough feet or elbows you can use this
References
- Photo Credit Thomas Northcut/Photodisc/Getty Images
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Comments
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I will definitely try this method because I am way too young to have such unsightly dry hands?
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cmeprimp
Jan 27, 2008
This is completely amazing! I am going to try this on my feet next. Thanks so much for the beauty secret! -
Globetrotter
May 22, 2007
sounds greasy, are you sure this works??
