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Natural ways to keep your hands looking beautiful

Learn how to keep your hands naturally beautiful with our guide to natural and organic hand care.

By Alexandra Julian

6 Minute read

Do you want your hands to look soft and pretty? Hardworking hands need regular touches of TLC to look their naturally beautiful best.

Discover how to make your hands beautiful naturally as we share tips for building your best home hand care routine with a natural hand cream and hand wash

Why do I need a hand care routine?  

How can I hydrate my hands? Do I need to moisturise them every day? How can I help my hands heal fast? We’re often asked for tips on maintaining healthy hands, and we believe that everyone can benefit from a good home hand care routine.

Why? Well, your hands work harder than any other part of your body. Used in practically all of your daily activities, they have few sebaceous glands to keep them hydrated. They are also regularly exposed to drying detergents, pollutants, and temperature changes, meaning they are easily damaged and need a little help staying soft and healthy.

Your hands are also particularly vulnerable to ageing sun damage and can age prematurely. But with our routines for naturally beautiful hands, you don’t have to worry about that.

How to make your hands beautiful

You know how important it is to wash your hands regularly, but when did you moisturise them last?

A good hand cream is a skincare essential. It helps lock moisture into your hand's skin barrier, resulting in healthy, softer hands, which are better protected against bacteria and viruses.

Here are three ways to make your hands beautiful naturally:

1. Wash gently: 

Wash your hands regularly using a non-drying hand wash. While soaps and alcohol-based sanitisers are effective, they can be very drying and may strip your hands of their precious moisture supplies.

Shop gentle hand washes:

 

2. Moisturise: 

The key to keeping hands soft is to moisturise your hands several times a day using a natural hand cream formulated with hand-softening plant actives. We love Shea Butter, a deeply nourishing moisturiser which rich in vitamins A & E and a key ingredient in our natural and organic hand creams.

Shop Shea Butter hand creams:

Protect: 

Wear gloves while washing dishes, cleaning and gardening to reduce your hands' exposure to drying chemicals and sun-ageing sunlight. To further shield against sun damage, apply an SPF to your hands daily, even when it's overcast.

Shop SPF for hands:

Best natural hand care for soft hands

Do you want to know the secret to getting soft hands? It’s a strong and healthy skin barrier.

Learn how to keep your hands naturally beautiful with this simple routine.

STEP 1: Protect with Scent Free Hand Wash

Wash your hands with care using our Scent Free Hand Wash. Ultra-gentle, there are no harsh foaming actives or skin-drying alcohol here. Fragrance-free, soap-free and SLS-free, this non-drying, unscented hand wash is as pure as can be.

 

“Great product for daily use. Doesn’t dry my hands and leaves them soft.” Monica D. 

STEP 2: Soothe with a hand repair cream

Keep your hands soft while out and about with our beautifully scented Hand Care Essentials. The perfect size for your handbag bag, these soothing hand care treats blend nourishing Shea Butter with uplifting essential oils to return your hands to happiness.

If you are sensitive to essential oils or simply prefer a hand cream without a scent, choose Scent Free Hand & Body Lotion. Packed with intense hydration for dry skin, its barrier-boosting formula promotes soft, calm skin comfort for naturally beautiful hands.

 

“It's the best hand cream ever. I’ve tried others, but I always come back to this. Absorbs nicely, so no sticky fingers.” Stephanie N.

Best hand care for healthy nails 

Nails are easily damaged and need a healthy calcium, zinc and vitamins diet to look their best.

Cuticle care is critical to strengthening weak and brittle nails, and we have the perfect protection to keep cuticles soft and healthy.

One Balm is an organic cuticle balm that’s rich in reparative plant oils, including Myrrh, Rosehip and Shea Butter it nourishes the nail bed so that healthy nails can flourish.

“The smell is just amazing, and my hands in the morning are still so soft. Wonderful product!” Dana K

Are you looking for a natural hand cream or hand wash? Not sure where to start?

Our UK customer care team is happy to help with questions about our products for naturally beautiful hands. Please call us on 01403 740350 or drop us a note at @GreenPeopleUK.

Reviewed by:

This blog post has been reviewed by Charlotte Vøhtz, founder of Green People, who has 25+ years of experience in the natural and organic beauty industry. A recognised leader in the field of organic beauty, Charlotte helped inform the UK's first organic beauty standards and was voted the People’s Choice in the 2023 list of Who’s Who in Natural Beauty. A published author, she wrote the organic beauty bible ‘Naturally Gorgeous’. Previously, she qualified as a nurse and spent over 10 years working in pharmaceuticals. 

If you wish to republish this content, please credit Green People as the original creator with a link to "Natural ways to keep your hands looking beautiful." Please do not use an affiliate link.

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