Description
Intensive Hand Cream is a deeply nourishing but wonderfully gentle cream that we formulated to keep hard-working hands healthy and hydrated. The soft, shea butter-based cream works both as a protective barrier against environmental irritants, and as a super-nutritious boost for skin that needs extra help, feeding it with the essential fatty acids and vitamins it needs to maintain its regular cycle of regeneration and repair.
We’ve designed it to be mild and unfragranced so you can use it as often necessary without worrying about further irritation from synthetic ingredients. Rich in hemp seed oil and blended with Roman chamomile essential oil, it uses the same four skin-kind herbs we use in the Daily Moisturising Cream and Skin Salvation ointment (chamomile, calendula, nettle and chickweed), but in this case as extra potent macerated oils rather than herbal tinctures.
The cream is especially useful for those who need to wash their hands often throughout the day, or who come into contact with harsh detergents, allergens or irritating chemicals. These can leave skin sore, dry or cracked, and can aggravate conditions such as hand dermatitis, psoriasis or eczema. Care workers, health professionals, gardeners, climbers, mechanics, parents: this one’s for you!
It’s also rich and gentle enough to make a fantastic daily face cream, if you want something a bit more luxurious and rejuvenating than our Daily Moisturising Cream.
Intensive Hand Cream is totally free from parabens, petrochemicals or perfumes, which makes it perfect for dry skin and is also suitable for people who may be prone to hand dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis and dry, sore, itchy skin conditions.
For a more intensive emollient, especially if your hands are cracked or raw from itching, we would suggest you use our beeswax-based Skin Salvation intensive moisturising ointment.
Suitable for all ages and skin types, including babies from 6 weeks.
Cruelty-free and suitable for vegans
This product was previously called Purepotions Skin Salvation Intensive Hand Cream.
How to use
Use as much and as often as you want, and re-apply after washing your hands.
Intensive Hand Cream is safe for use on babies (from six weeks) and children. It can be safely used on any area of the body, including your face, hands and feet.
Keep cool. For external use only.
The first time you use it, you’ll need several pumps to release the air and begin to dispense the cream. Discard the small amount that collects in the nozzle between applications as exposure to the air can affect the appearance and the texture of the cream.
Allergy Advice
We recommend customers patch test on an unaffected area close to the affected area before use (leave for 24 hours) as some people may be allergic even to the very gentle ingredients we use in this product.
Do not use if you are sensitive or allergic to any of the ingredients in this product.
Ingredients
Aqua (water)
Olea Europaea (olive) fruit oil*
Helianthus Annuus (sunflower) seed oil*
Butyrospermum Parkii (shea) butter*
Glycerin (vegetable origin)
Cetyl Alcohol (plant-derived stabiliser)
Cannabis Sativa (hemp) seed oil*
Cetearyl Olivate (plant-derived natural emulsifierl)
Sorbitan Olivate (plant-derived natural emulsifier)
Hippophae Rhamnoides (sea buckthorn) oil
Calendula Officinalis (calendula) flower oil*
Stellaria Media (chickweed) oil*
Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) (chamomile) flower oil*
Urtica Dioica (nettle) oil*
Glyceryl Caprylate (plant-derived natural emulsifier)
Xanthan Gum (natural thickening agent)
Anthemis Nobilis (Roman Chamomile) essential oil
Benzyl Alcohol (preservative)
Limonene (from essential oils)
*organic ingredients
Our products are handmade using natural ingredients; as such the product may vary in appearance from time to time but this will not affect the quality of the product.
Does not contain nuts, soya, gluten, or lanolin.
All our products are entirely free from synthetic perfumes and colours, petrochemicals, parabens, phthalates, propylene glycol, SLS/SLES, PEGs, methylisothiazolinone (MI) and methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI).
