Intensive Hand Treatment Balm

Your hard working hands need to be taken care of, as they - like your neck, show your age the easiest and with the most relentless honesty. Applying a good hand cream, like our Moisturizing Hand and Body Balm will go a long way in keeping your hands well moisturized and looking young, but if you need an extra boost to fight dehydrated wrinkly hands, then our Intensive Hand Treatment is the thing to look at.

This product has been discontinued.

• Benefits of our Intensive Hand Treatment Balm
• Ingredients
• Directions for use
• Buying our Intensive Hand Treatment Balm
• Links to other products

Benefits of our Intensive Hand Treatment Balm

If you want to judge somebody's age, look at their hands, because neglect of the hands shows very quickly and is a telltale sign of aging. Proper care with nourishing and moisturizing treatments to the hands will help to keep the hands smooth and younger looking, without the normal lines and wrinkles found on hands that are mistreated.

We use our hands daily, and they are normally a good barometer on how to judge how well people look after themselves - as well kept hands are normally indicative of people that take personal grooming seriously.

Hands unfortunately take a beating in everyday life, since they are double abused - not only do they have to withstand environmental factors, but are further subjected to a host of chemical and mechanical stressors as well.

How often have you washed dishes or cleaned your hands with a chemical cleanser after doing messy work, only to find that your hands are red, rough and sometimes even sore to the touch? We all work hard, and since our hands usually do all the work, they also need some gentle loving care to keep on looking their best.

Our Intensive Hand Treatment is not a hand cream that you would use like you would normally use a hand cream - it is a specialized treatment designed and formulated to fight severely dehydrated and wrinkly hands. Some people, through genetics, lifestyle or environmental factors, struggle with very dry hands, and this again leads to hands that age quickly. These hands show their discontent by wrinkling easily, and have a dull, dehydrated look about them.

Should the above sound like a close description of your hands; you may want to consider treating your hands to some special care to help regain soft and smooth hands, and to negate the passage of time to some extent.

Apart from the richly nourishing and elasticity promoting hydrating ingredients it contains, it also contains a selection of ingredients specifically included and formulated to revitalize the skin in general and promote collagen formation, increase circulation and tone the hands. This is a far more intense treatment than the Moisturizing Hand and Body Balm, which we advocate for daily use. People find that they do not need to use the Intensive Hand Treatment on a daily basis, but that a boosting treatment every week or fortnight is a great way to keep on having soft, smooth and great looking hands.

Consumers in the know acknowledge that there is no other treatment cream for hands on the market, that contains the selection of ingredients found in this cream, and although not the cheapest cream on the market, it is the most effective hand treatment cream that will get you the results you want.

As per the directions, it is better to use at night, when going to bed, and after applying a liberal amount, to enclose your hands in gloves - be that cheap disposable ones, or custom made treatment gloves, for the best penetration of the cream.

Ingredients

We believe that consumers should be well informed, and for this reason we list our ingredients, and provide a hyperlink per ingredient to a page dealing specifically with that ingredient, in order for consumers to understand why the ingredient was included in the formulation.

• Herbal extracts
  • We used Horse chestnut to boost the collagen and elastin in the skin, while supporting the venous health of the skin and in so doing preventing capillary fragility; Plus Centella asiatica (gotu kola) to increase circulation and boost the supportive tissue and in so doing revitalize the skin. 
  • Aloe barbadensis leaf gel is included for its soothing and deeply moisturizing action, to fight any inflammation and for boosting cell regeneration.
• Essences
  • The volatile principle of Lavender is included, to boost cell regeneration and circulation, while soothing inflammation and balancing the skin. It is also effective to help heal minor cuts and wounds and has good antiseptic as well as analgesic properties. 
  • Benzoin in turn helps to heal cracked and dry skin, while boosting circulation. It calms the skin when irritated and inflamed; While Geranium improves the suppleness of the skin, while balancing sebum secretion and clearing congested skin. 
  • Lemon is useful to clear the skin and promote vital looking skin, while attending to broken capillaries and helping brittle nails and rosemary is included to boost circulation and for its astringent, firming, toning and tightening action to the skin.
• Emollients
  • To ban chapped and dry hands, we added deeply penetrating and nourishing Avocado, which is great to rehydrate and moisturize excessively dry skin and also has a regenerative effect; While Almond is great to soothe, soften and nourishing the skin.
  • Jojoba, on the other hand, has natural moisturizing and healing properties that are guaranteed to help soften and soothe the skin, while hydrating and balancing the skin. 
  • Carrot seed with its pro-vitamin A, as well as vitamin B and D content, helps to detoxify the skin and stimulate the growth of new cells; while Rose hip, containing vitamin C, is deeply moisturizing, boosts and regenerates the skin, while fighting the signs of aging and minimizing sun damage.
  • Wheatgerm on the other hand is also included as it is high in vitamin E and has excellent moisturizing as well as anti-oxidant effects on the skin; And the addition of pure soft Beeswax helps to soften the skin and to retain moisture.
• Other specialist ingredients
  • Silk amino acids have great water binding and humectant properties, which condition, soften, and smoothes the skin; while Hydrogenated polydecene promotes soft and smooth skin as well, and also has anti-aging properties of its own.
• Full list
  • The above is a short summary of benefits of the active ingredients used, but to view the full list of ingredients, please click here.

Directions for use

• Use at night before going to bed.
• Wash and dry the hands.
• Take a liberal amount of Intensive Hand Treatment Balm and massage well into the nails, cuticles and hands.
• For better penetration, and to protect your bed linen, place the hands into disposable gloves, tape the gloves closed and leave on overnight, or use specialized anti-ageing mittens.
• The Intensive Hand Treatment Balm is normally used weekly, or can be used daily, or whenever necessary.