Effective Hand Care: Natural Home Remedies for Soft, Healthy Hands

View Photos Beautiful hands adds to a beautiful you. We normally do not give much importance to our hands as we do for our face. Hand care is utterly necessary, and is indispensable, especially during Winter. Your face can wear a young look, however, your unattended hands can let you down. Owing to the fact that the skin of the hand is delicate, wrinkles form, if not attended to.

You can care for your hands with simple home remedies, before which simple hand care tips, which are rather reminders, will aid in having soft and supple skin.

Simple Hand Care Tips

• Wear rubber gloves while engaged in kitchen work, washing clothes, gardening etc.

• Keep a hand cream or lotion, near by and remember to apply it at work intervals, if you are to wash your hands often.

• Do not ignore your hands when you apply sunscreen for your face.

• Keep your hands moisturized.

Hand Care Home Remedies

Here are simple hand care home remedies for soft, supple and young looking hands.

• Make a paste of Green gram power with coconut oil and apply and use it instead of soap, for soft, moisturised skin. It is an effective exfoliator. Green Gram powder can also be replaced with besan flour.(Bengal gram)

• Coconut oil applied on chapped hands, heals it with ease. But avoid going out in the sun, which could tan your hands. It is ideal to use it at night.

• Massage your hands with Olive oil, which makes the skin smooth.

• Shea Butter is rich in Vitamin A, E and F, which contributes for a clear and healthy skin. It is ideal to keep wrinkles at bay, and effective for chapped hands.

• Make a paste of besan flour and curd and apply it on your hands. Wash it off after 15 minutes to find your skin smooth as silk.

• A tsp of glycerin, half a spoon of lemon juice and a little rose water, mixed and applied twice a day, makes way for soft hands.

• Fresh cream mixed with a little lemon juice and a tsp of sugar, when massaged on hands and washed helps to make skin soft.

• Olive oil or Sun flower oil, when applied on the hand helps relieve chapped skin.

These simple home remedies go a great way for hand care, and chapped hands during winter season.