Final month my little sister texted me from Sephora, questioning which hand cream I beneficial for very dry pores and skin. I knew my reply instantly: Kiehl’s Final Energy Hand Salve.
“Get the Kiehl’s Hand Lotion!” I replied in all caps, taking a look at my very own beloved tube of it on my bedside. She was, in spite of everything, in her personal phrases, “cracking,” and I knew this was the one product that may get the job finished.
“You don’t get it,” I asserted. “I’m so obsessed with it.” She went on to buy a tube and requested no additional questions, as she is aware of higher than anybody that I’m not often this obsessed with one product — particularly one thing so simple as hand cream.
That is additionally once I realised: I ought to most likely write about this.
It could appear foolish to really feel this strongly about hand lotion, however I imagine the arms (and ft) are far too typically ignored on this planet of skincare (and as a longtime magnificence editor, I do know a factor or two about this terrain). Everybody obsesses over their face, neck, and even scalp hydration, solely remembering their extremities when wintertime-induced dryness comes again round.
By the point we attain for the hand cream, not to mention a pleasant hand cleaning soap (which is an entire different dialog I can’t wait to have), our pores and skin is already within the state my sister’s was: so dry that it’s cracking!
What occurred to preventive skincare, huh? Precisely. Which is why final 12 months, I sought to vary that — particularly as a result of I’ve to scrub my arms so many instances every day (I’ve 4 pets).
Within the fall I started to include the Kiehl’s Final Energy Hand Salve into my bedtime routine, and inside weeks I used to be hooked: my arms have been noticeably softer, and even my manicures have been lasting longer than earlier than. (My grandmother’s manicurist as soon as informed me to use moisturiser to my cuticles. It’s principally a type of nail slugging.) My cuticles additionally regarded softer and the pores and skin round my nails utterly stopped peeling.
Now I don’t go away residence with out it. I at all times pack a journey dimension — or fill a travel-size tube if the two.5 oz. possibility is offered out. In any other case my arms really feel unhappy and bare, or like prunes upon waking. Even after spending 10 days within the literal desert that’s Los Angeles in the course of the dry month of December, I’m happy to report that my arms are silkier and softer than ever, due to the trial tube I introduced with me for my vacation trip.
