Are your hands as soft as your face?

Sit around all day with your hands stuck in a bowl of hand cream

Seriously, who ever had hands as soft as their face? The nature of the skin on each organ is different, one usually has a layer of fat under it, the other doesn't, at least, not on the palm of the hand.

I have very dry skin so usually wear marigolds for any household task involving liquids and have done since I started my first flat share, and when I wash my hands i put handcream on. The main purpose of that is simply to avoid the very unpleasant feel of dry hands, rather than achieve some ignorant male copywriters idea of what women want.

Yet again I agree with Monica. I do almost exactly the same.

Avoid Fairy liquid and go for one of the cheaper varieties. Fairy just makes my hands sore and itchy. Use gloves now and again gut that’s all.

Monica you missed my sense of humour with a title I thought would catch people’s attention. I’m unsure why you bothered replying to be honest,
but thank you anyway.

I have a pack of disposable gloves which fit like a second skin. The tight wrists make a very satisfying snapping noise as I pull them on. They're great for scaring DH when I loom over him like the nurse from hell and say I'm about to perform a procedure ...

?? my DH would run a mile Nell .

Excellent post, full of helpful advice MOnica. I thought ideas for keeping hands in good condition was what OP asked for. Your opening paragraph was humorous, I thought.

?? Does anyone remember Palmolive washing up liquid? One old tv ad had a salon customer happily soaking her cuticles in a container of this.

I think sometimes you spend a silly amount on face cream, in the hope that it will turn back time , but begrudge spending more on handcream than a couple of quid!
I have been advised several times to wear cotton gloves /socks on hands and feet over a layer of hand or foot cream, but apart from one time when I found that both hands and feet became so hot in the middle of the night and kept me awake, that I have never done it since!
I always use Marigolds for washing up and wet cleaning and even peeling potatoes because I get contact dermatitis if I don't ! I also use own brand washing up liquid - recently bought Fairy and it quite honestly isn't worth the extra money!
I too remember Palmolive washing up liquid and have seen it still available in some small shops, but what about Meadow Fresh that not only was supposed to wash dishes squeaky clean, but act as an air freshener ! (Still available in Savers shops!)

I vividly remember my mum looking at her hands and comparing them to my beautiful, smooth young hands. Now I know why she was sad to no longer have youthful hands - mine now look like hers did then
I can't complain however because I rarely use rubber gloves and never use hand cream.......

Tilly
I hope that Monica doesn’t mind me speaking for her, but I tend to think that her tone of exasperation wasn't directed at you, but at the advert’s daft premise
It is so easy to get the wrong end of the stick on here, I’m forever doing it

I use Neutrogena hand cream. It feels more like a barrier cream than a hand cream. Anyway it works for me. Cant bear the feel of Marigolds so never wear them but will force my hands into gardening gloves.

I always wear Marigolds. The worst feeling for me, is when you get some water inside and it goes cold and icky. Bleurgh

My hands are as soft as my face, thanks to my Marigolds, long handled cleaning things, Mr. B doing the majority of the work, tough gardening gloves and copious amounts of hand lotion. I’m being very careful with them since the awful Stevens
Johnson Syndrome last year when they blistered and all the skin peeled off.

I always use Marigolds for washing up and wet cleaning and even peeling potatoes because I get contact dermatitis if I don't!

JayLucy I can sympathise.
Hand sanitisers, especially the ones outside shops, have given me contact dermatitis and it is proving very difficult to get rid of.
The DGC got red, sore hands (one gets eczema) from hand sanitiser and the nasty soap provided in school.

I find Neal's Yard hand cream good although it is expensive.

That sounds awful *Blossoming^. Our skin is a very sensitive organ isn’t it?
Thank you Fanny , if a stick has 2 ends, yup, I get the wrong end ?
I’m going to get a Poppit (on) gloves holder for when they are not in use so they stay dry inside instead of in a pool of water at the side of the sink. ??

Blossoming

My hands are as soft as my face, thanks to my Marigolds, long handled cleaning things, Mr. B doing the majority of the work, tough gardening gloves and copious amounts of hand lotion. I’m being very careful with them since the awful Stevens
Johnson Syndrome last year when they blistered and all the skin peeled off.

It does sound awful, Blossoming, I had a similar reaction many years ago when I was on a certain medication.
? ok since.

Interesting everyone says Marigolds, the brand, a bit like we say hoover. There are collection points for said gloves as they’re not biodegradable. I don’t use gloves, not even for gardening, unless it’s something particularly scratchy, like brambles and remember hand cream rarely, but my hands aren’t too bad.

TillyTrotter my answer is to do as little as possible and if you have a DH at home, maybe get him to immerse his hands in water and wash the dishes if you do not possess a dishwasher.

My hands are beautifully soft and the only time I apply anything is when the frosty weather appears.

in a word NO my hands are not as soft as my face BUT have you seen these?? You can get them for your feet too. Asda seems to loads of different brands of them

I never wear rubber gloves, rarely wear gardening gloves, apply hand cream during the day when I remember, but I do apply a rich hand cream every night without fail.

My hands seem to be fairly soft and my nails are longish

I’ll try some of those JaneJudge. Thanks.

Increasingly I start to wo der if my face will fell as soft as my hands - I'm becoming somewhat leathery-complexioned. Partly with having lost weight, partly with being 66.
Eheu, fugaces.....

Always wear rubber gloves when washing up etc. Now use the Marigold black gardening ones for that as the yellow ones last no time at all.

Put Vaseline Intensive Care hand cream on every night. Nails on left hand strongish and fairly long, unlike my (much used) right hand.

Never apply face cream. Hands and face feel similar, not sure if that’s good or bad.