Daniel Maier has some bits of advice on hand cream. But they are definitely not ?hacks?.
I?d be dead without hand cream. I mean, it?s not like I once fell down a well on the moors and my hand cream went forhelp or anything. But I do think that without hand cream I would quite possibly have bled to death through my hands. They get extraordinarily dry, and quickly. A few minutes in central heating on a nippy winter?s day and it?s like that bit in a Hammer film when the someone?s immortality charm wears off and in moments they go from healthy, moist human to dusty, dessicated skeleton. My hands basically do that. The skin at the knuckles, starved of natural oils, dries and cracks and in extreme cases blood oozes through the fissures. Enjoying your lunch" So I like to think I know hand cream, and these are some of the things I?ve learned about it.
1. Always get a metallic tube

Stuff like L?Occitane and Burt?s Bees comes in nice, aluminiumy tubes. Get these if you can. It?s not just a retro aesthetic affectation. The good thing about metallic tubes is you can roll them up to get the last dregs of cream out. Many?s the time I?ve stood at a bus stop, hands throbbing in pain, breath misting in the night air as I desperately palp a tiny wrinkle in a tube of hand cream to release the minute, unguent seam tucked within. You can?t do that with the plastic ones. The unyielding rigid bastards know they?ve got the last vestiges of cream tucked into their unreachable corners and ...