Final month my little sister texted me from Sephora, questioning which hand cream I advisable for very dry pores and skin. I knew my reply instantly: Kiehl’s Final Power Hand Salve.

“Get the Kiehl’s Hand Lotion!” I replied in all caps, taking a look at my very own beloved tube of it on my bedside. She was, in any case, in her personal phrases, “cracking,” and I knew this was the one product that may get the job executed.

“You don’t get it,” I asserted. “I’m so keen about it.” She went on to buy a tube and requested no additional questions, as she is aware of higher than anybody that I’m not often this passionate about one product — particularly one thing so simple as hand cream.

That is additionally once I realised: I ought to most likely write about this.

It could appear foolish to really feel this strongly about hand lotion, however I consider the fingers (and ft) are far too typically missed on the earth of skincare (and as a longtime magnificence editor, I do know a factor or two about this terrain). Everybody obsesses over their face, neck, and even scalp hydration, solely remembering their extremities when wintertime-induced dryness comes again round.

By the point we attain for the hand cream, not to mention a pleasant hand cleaning soap (which is a complete different dialog I can’t wait to have), our pores and skin is already within the state my sister’s was: so dry that it’s cracking!

What occurred to preventive skincare, huh? Precisely. Which is why final 12 months, I sought to alter that — particularly as a result of I’ve to clean my fingers so many occasions every day (I’ve 4 pets).

Within the fall I started to include the Kiehl’s Final Power Hand Salve into my bedtime routine, and inside weeks I used to be hooked: my fingers have been noticeably softer, and even my manicures have been lasting longer than earlier than. (My grandmother’s manicurist as soon as informed me to use moisturiser to my cuticles. It’s principally a type of nail slugging.) My cuticles additionally appeared softer and the pores and skin round my nails fully stopped peeling.

Now I don’t depart residence with out it. I all the time pack a journey measurement — or fill a travel-size tube if the two.5 oz. choice is offered out. In any other case my fingers really feel unhappy and bare, or like prunes upon waking. Even after spending 10 days within the literal desert that’s Los Angeles in the course of the dry month of December, I’m happy to report that my fingers are silkier and softer than ever, due to the trial tube I introduced with me for my vacation trip.