{"id":20286,"date":"2020-03-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=20286"},"modified":"2023-04-07T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:37:15","slug":"hand-cream-dry-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2020\/03\/hand-cream-dry-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! All this handwashing is drying out my hands : 4 hand creams I’m using"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I said in my last post<\/a> that I would keep calm and carry on blogging. And I intend to do so. But if I’m to be honest, my heart isn’t quite in it right now, purely because it appears so frivolous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, I have received a few kind messages from you that that bit of frivolity is what we need right now. A little bit of escapism from the mad mad world out there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As much as I want to maintain a sense of normalcy in our life, the fact is nothing is normal, and if I’m to be honest, I do not want this to be the new normal. What is normal is for us to be able to move around freely, without that constant dread of meeting an infected person, and to shy away from people like they’re bearing the plague. That isn’t normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is normal is meeting family and friends, holding them, hugging and kissing them, sitting down for a meal or a drink, being able to enjoy each other’s company. That’s normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we keep our distance, and we stay home, and we try to ‘Flatten the Curve’, and one thing we’ve been cautioned over and over during this period, is to WASH OUR HANDS<\/strong>. And I don’t know about you, but my hands are washed raw. So, here’s some things that helped me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The truth is, hand cream has never been high on my body care list. I’ve never found the need to use it, because my hands don’t dry out very much on normal days. But that was before we all started intensively washing our hands after every little outing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my hands started drying out, I rooted through my stash to see what I could find in the way of hand cream. My criteria is quite simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hand creams I use must be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n