Care For Hands

How to Keep Hands Moisturized

If a lack of moisture is making your once-silky hands feel more like alligator paws, then you need some serious hydration to the rescue. This isn't brain surgery, but there is a bit of science involved. Certain products may give you a little extra...

Hand Cream for Arid Conditions

If you are in an arid and desert-like environment, it's not an unlikely scenario to find your skin feeling as dry as the air outside. When it comes to dryness, the hands are usually the first part of the body to experience symptoms, including...

Brands of Hand Lotion

When it comes to excessively dry skin, your poor hands are often the first part of your body to see the unpleasant results. From cracking and bleeding of the knuckles to plain ol' flaking all around, dry hands can be both excruciatingly painful...

How to Care for Cold Fingers & Hands

When it's cold outside, you expect to have frosty hands and fingers. It's annoying and sometimes worrisome when your fingers are cold when the rest of your body is warm, though. Rarely, persistently cold fingers can be a symptom that needs to be...

Instructions for a Paraffin Hand Dip

Pamper your hands and make your skin soft and supple with a paraffin hand dip. Paraffin wax can make scary dragon skin sexy again and it can even soothe joints and muscles. When your hands are screaming for attention, give them what they want with...

Hangnail Remedies

Hangnails can be more than just an uncomfortable nuisance. If they're left untreated or removed in a way that causes more damage, they become painful and can cause infections. You don't want that. Learning how to manage your hangnails is a smart...

How to Care for Henna on the Hands After Applying

Whether you got a small henna tattoo at the local fair or you've gone for a full traditional piece, henna tattoos on your hands require maintenance to look their best and last. This ancient art form originated in India but it is now practiced all...

How to Moisturize My Fingernails

Even though your nails seem hard, sturdy and less porous than your skin, they need moisture too. They're made up of protein layers that get brittle with too much exposure to water (like swimmers) or dry winter air. When your nails are dry and...

Protein Shampoos & Moisturizing Conditioners

Some days it feels like you need a degree in chemistry just to read the labels in the hair-care aisle. You know protein is good for your muscles, but what's it doing in your shampoo? And how is a deep moisturizing conditioner different from a...