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For Your Beautiful Hands: Hand Care Guide

Imagine there is a beautiful good-looking woman with elegant black gloves on her hands. Then, she takes off the gloves and her hands are dry, pigmented and dehydrated. Now, what do you think of her beauty? Not the same as the first look, right? That’s how important it is to take care of your hands. Beautiful hands boost your confidence and taking care of your hands doesn’t require that much of time, but you have to be patient at first until you get used to it.

What is the Relationship Between Your Hands and Bees?

Burt Shavitz and Roxanne Quimby created Burt’s Bees in the remote Maine wilderness in the early 1980s. The two hit it off when Burt pulled over to pick up a hitchhiking Roxanne. Burt had learned to keep bees and had been selling honey roadside. Roxanne apprenticed and found a book of recipes that they used to transform their beeswax into candles and lip balm. Burt was stowing away the surplus beeswax from his honey business, knowing it might eventually have a useful purpose. Burt taught Roxanne about his bees, and she found a book of recipes which they used to turn their waxy bounty into things like candles. Since then, their passion about creating skincare product with beeswax have emerged. Together, they shaped their successful business Burt’s Bees.

What Make Burt’s Bees So Special?

All the products are over 95% natural origin, without phthalates, parabens, petrolatum, or sodium lauryl sulphate. These are not easy principles to have at this time where skincare companies produce all-chemical products. Anyway, let’s get started with a list of bestselling products from the reputable Burt’s Bees company.

Burt’s Bees Hand Salve

From the name you can tell that this is no joke. It’s emollient hand moisturiser that deeply hydrates, instantly soothes, revitalises dry, cracked and hands. It can also be used for elbows, knees and feet. This product is enriched with sweet almond oil to deeply soften and smooth skin, with the signature beeswax of Burt’s Bees to lock in moisture. It also infused with eucalyptus and rosemary extracts; the light herbal scent makes this hand salve perfect for both men and women.

Burt’s Bees Almond & Milk Hand Cream

It’s a rich hand moisturiser that revitalises and conditions dry skin for up to 24 hours. It moisturizes dry hands with sweet almond oil and vitamin E, with addition of beeswax that increases the level of hydration. Burt’s Bees Almond & Milk Hand Cream is formulated without parabens or phthalates and it’s 99% natural origin.

Ultimate Care Moisturising Hand Cream

Are you looking for a lightweight formula? Sure! This cream gives your hands the break they deserve with rich natural ingredients. It has fruit acid complex, baobab oil, watermelon seed oil, pumpkin seed oil and green tea extract. This 98.9% natural hydrating hand cream formulated without phthalates, parabens, petrolatum, or SLS.  Dermatologist tested and hypoallergenic, this non-greasy hand cream contains no added fragrance. Ultimate Care Moisturising Hand Cream is suitable for everyday use, but it doesn’t contain SPF, so be careful when you go out during the day.

Burt’s Bees Lavender and Hand Cream

Do you want your hand cream with a nice scent? There you go! This amazing hand cream is infused with natural lavender oil, honey and generous amount of shea butter. Can you imagine the smell? Yet, it’s not chemical and all-natural sourced. Lavendar soothes your skin and leave a good smell. While honey is nourishing and hydrating your skin with antioxidant. Save the best for last, shea butter is the core of this hand cream. Shea butter supposed to be called a body food and not a body butter, because it’s simply hydrate, nourish and plump your skin.

How to Take Care of Your Hand?

  1. Wash your hands regularly: hands are home of many germs and bacteria, due to the continuous touching of items. Thus, you have to be careful with taking care of your hands. You have to regularly wash your hands, especially when you come home, before eating, and whenever needed.
  2. Hydrate like there is no tomorrow: using hand creams or butters regularly is not a sort of pampering yourself. You have to do so! As hands get dry easily due to the number of times we wash our hands daily. You have to choose a proper moisturizer like Burt’s Bees.
  3. Avoid touching detergents directly: detergents aren’t designed for human usage. Even if you read the information in the back of the bottle, you will see warnings related to this matter. Simply, all you have to do is to wear gloves whenever you use detergents. They are really harmful to your hands and will lead to over dryness, pigmentation and even worse, skin conditions like eczema.
  4. Protect your hands from sun damages: sun is the biggest enemy to your skin. As sun damages your skin cells, causing hyperpigmentation and skin conditions. Applying creams with at least 30 SPF is a mandatory step before you step out of your door.
  5. Exfoliate your hands weekly: exfoliation is a great way to get rid of dead skin and nourishing your hands. The best and easiest way to exfoliate your beautiful hands are with soft sugar, sweet almond oil and drops of rosehip oil to add more benefits. Sugar is the ingredient responsible of exfoliating and removing dead skin, while sweet almond oil is nourishing and hydrating, as exfoliating cause dryness. Rosehip oil doesn’t just smell good, but even has benefits like soothing the skin and boosting glow appearance with its rich antioxidants.
  6. Lastly, pamper yourself with monthly manicure: beautiful nails are important too! You can’t just take care of your hands without your nails. Filing your nails and taking care of the around nails are will make your hands look gorgeous.

If you have tried Burt’s Bees before, write your experience in the comment section below. If not, then this is your sign to have it!