Your Face Says 40 But Your Dry Hands Tells a Different Story

Even an expensive manicure or cream cannot hide dry or knuckled hands. Body lotions are not formulated to tackle the skin on your hands. In this post, I will explain to you what caused it and the two-small day and night routine you can use to get soft, even-toned hands again.

You stretch out your hand to collect change. To greet someone. To show a friend your new nails.

And for one second, you see what they see.

Knuckles two shades darker than the rest of your hand. Palms that feel like sandpaper. Skin around the nails that is dry, cracked and peeling.

So you do what everybody does.

You rub on more body lotion. You scrub harder in the bathroom. Maybe you even tried a strong “knuckle cream” that left things looking worse than before.

And still, nothing much changed

You take care of your face. Your body is banging. Yet your hands look like they belong to somebody else

Here is the part nobody told you.

It is not dirt. It is not your fault. And it will not scrub off.

Your hands greet people before your mouth does. They hold the microphone, hand over the card, wear the ring and sit on the steering wheel. People notice them, even when they say nothing.

So if what you have tried has not worked, the problem is not you. The problem is that you were treating the wrong thing.

The skin on your hands plays by different rules. The inside of your palms have no oil glands at all. The backs of your hands have very few. So your hands start the day with almost no natural oil to protect them.

Then life happens to them.

You wash them again and again. Soap, body wash, detergent, dish water, sanitiser and harmattan air strip away the little moisture they have. And your knuckles bend, stretch and rub against things hundreds of times a day.

When skin is dry and rubbed over and over, it protects itself the only way it knows how - It gets thicker.

African women are beautifully created with melanin-rich skin and when the skin is irritated it produces even more pigment (dark colour) to protect and heal itself .

We call it the Dry-Thick-Dark cycle

That is why your knuckles are darker than your fingers. It’s why your palms feel like sandpaper. And that is why the things you tried made no difference.

Body lotion: It is made to spread thin over arms and legs. On hands, it is gone by the next wash.
Scrubbing harder: More rubbing tells the skin to build even more thickness which means you are adding fuel to fire.

Harsh lightening creams: They can irritate the knuckle and lighten the softer skin around it faster so the contrast gets worse, not better.

To break the cycle you need to do THIS three things, every day:

That takes a special type of cream made for hands. And it works best as a team of two.

Neutriherbs makes two hand creams built for exactly this job. One works while you go about your day. The other works while you sleep.

Both share the same rich base: shea butter, jojoba oil, argan oil, meadowfoam seed oil, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E and panthenol. That is the oil and moisture your hands cannot make for themselves.

The texture is “avocado-like” so it’s neither too thick nor too thin. It sinks in fast and leaves no greasy or slippery feel, so you can get straight back to your phone, your keyboard or your steering wheel.

This is the one for hard, rough and tired-looking hands.

Neutriherbs formulated it for hangnails, roughness, dryness, cracks and ageing skin. It has a fresh green bamboo scent, and you do not need to “build tolerance” before using it.

Massage the Vitamin C cream into clean hands. Spend extra time on the knuckles and around the nails.

Reapply a little whenever your hands feel dry.

Add sunscreen to the backs of your hands. Sun is one of the things that keeps knuckles dark.

Massage in the Retinol cream. Keep the tube on your bedside table so you never forget.

Each 75g tube is ₦9,500 and lasts about two months. That is about ₦160 a day.

Start with one: Vitamin C if dark knuckles and uneven tone bother you most. Retinol if roughness and ageing do.

Do it properly: use both. Vitamin C by day, Retinol by night. Neutriherbs recommends the pair for better results.

Save 10%: choose “Double” on the product page and get 10% off two tubes.

First order? Code WELCOME10 takes 10% off at checkout while the offer is running.

Neutriherbs ships anywhere in Nigeria. Orders leave its Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja warehouses within 12 to 48 working hours. Other states arrive in 3 to 6 working days.

And you are covered. Neutriherbs offers a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you are not happy within 30 days of purchase, you get a full refund, less the shipping fee.

You can get it now online or at a shop near you if you prefer to buy in person. If you're making your First order on the website? Use Code WELCOME10 to take 10% off at checkout.

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