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This year I thought I'd give my personal trainer (fitness, not riding) a gift basket with a variety of hand lotions, hand creams and hand salves for Christmas. She suffers from perpetually dry hands and likes to keep plenty of soothing goop in every room, tote, purse and vehicle.

We have lots of artisanal-type products in this area, but I'm also looking for lotions, etc. that she might not know about. What are your favorites to use for winter and year round? Website links would be helpful!

Working hands, hands down! It now comes in a tube. Best stuff ever invented.

What dasher said

The best, most effective hand cream I've ever used is Gold Bond Ultimate Healing. Very light fragrance, non-greasy, and comes a variety of sizes including a small tube for the purse.

I LURV L'Occitane original scent shea butter hand cream. It's a real treat. I keep Aquaphor in my purse (along with a small tube of L'Occitane..)

I really like Palmer's Olive Butter. It's by the same people that make the cocoa butter lotion, but this one comes in a green smallish tube and uses shea butter and olive oil. Very light fragrance, but very dense and healing.

Norwegian Hand Cream. Made for, or possibly out of, Norwegian sailors.

Desert Essence Organic pumpkin spice hand repair cream.

Carmex hand cream. It comes in smaller tubes too, at least here in the PNW. Good idea and good thread for gift suggestions!

My favourite name for hand cream comes from an artisanal maker in Newfoundland.
Friggin Wicked Weather Moisturizing Cream
The cream is great. Available on Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/176046043/friggin-wicked-weather-moisturizing

It sounds weird and wouldn't make a very good gift, but Neosporin ointment. When I was a teen I worked at an espresso shop and the constant washing with whatever soaps they used caused the backs of my hands to get so dry they would crack and bleed, so I took to rubbing Neosporin on them and they healed and stayed protected from the drying soap.

Also, my dog is recovering from a tumor removal that left a big open area that is granulating into scar tissue. My vet is having me just put plain Vaseline on it and said she used to use Aquafor but she has dermatologist friends who swear by plain Vaseline. I think the petroleum-based stuff provides more of a barrier so that skin can heal and moisturize itself from the inside rather than being penetrated by a foreign moisturizing substance, but that's just my layperson's hypothesis.

Some good feedback here! Interesting that no one has mentioned any of the Burt's Bees products. I have their cuticle cream and hand salve in the little tins; although they are greasy, they do a good job overnight. They don't seem to have much staying power during the day, though. I myself tend to wash my hands so many times during the day that the minute I apply a hand lotion or cream, I find something dirty to encounter (chicken poopies!) and am back at the garden hose or sink, washing up once more....

Working Hands/Working Feet!! This is the only stuff that consistently works for me. (Except greasy Bag Balm which I use on the ponies)

I asked about this once on UDBB many years ago and the recommendation I got was Zimm's Crack Cream (perhaps as much for the funny name as for the effectiveness of the product.) I got both the cream type and the liquid type over the last two decades and both worked very, very well. Particularly for skin cracks and those sore torn cuticles.

I'd second L'Occitane, and also add Pre de Provence's Argan Hand Cream. So good. (Admittedly, they're a little out of the range of what I would purchase for myself, but I work somewhere that carries them, so I get to play around with all kinds of good stuff).

One of my favorites is from a local company - Kearsarge Mountain Soaps. It goes on a *little* greasy, but really lasts all day. It's great stuff. http://kearsargemtnsoaps.com/product/al ... and-cream/

My mom loves the L'Occitane shea butter lotion.

I am a fan of Andalou products: https://andalou.com/
Whole Foods and many natural grocers sell them.

Bascar is funny. Poor Norwegian sailors. LOL. I agree with Gold Bond and Zims. As a nurse I have washed my hands to death , and those both work great. Watkins Products ( the vanilla extract people ) make a lemon scented cream that works great and smells fantastic. It's just like lemon pie.

Burts Bees Almond Milk Beeswax hand cream. great for nails and cuticles, elbows knuckles, just about everything

smells heavely

Wasn't there a poster on the old board that made soaps and creams? Kurqueen maybe? People raved about her hand cream.

Apicare

Very Hard Workers Active 16+ Manuka Honey New Zealand Hand Creme
from Apicare
You can buy if off of Amazon. I have dry skin and love this product. It's from New Zealand and it's fabulous!

PaulaO…I think you are right! I bought some products from her. She does have fabulous products! She lives in England (UK) and loves, loves….those marshmallow bunnies that you can buy at Easter. I sent her some when I placed an order.