Here at What’s New Health and Beauty Reviews, we’re huge fans of Neal’s Yard Remedies skin products, and we have been particularly hooked on their frankincense range for quite some time now.
For the uninitiated, frankincense, with its sweet, woody essence, comes from resin produced by the Boswellia Sacra tree and Neal’s Yard use the world’s first certified organic, hand harvested frankincense from the Dhofar region of Oman. Its aroma is known for producing feelings of well-being, healing and relaxation.
Now we all know that our hands are a key part of how we express ourselves. Beauty experts agree that moisturising hands should be an essential part of everyone’s daily body care routine, if you want to keep the skin on your hands supple, soft and healthy. Indeed, the main benefit of using hand cream or lotion is the moisturising properties. Hand cream or lotion helps prevent chapping, cracking, redness, soreness and chafing of the skin on our hands.
The medical science supports this, in that the oil ducts on palms and fingers are minute compared to elsewhere on the body, so hands get chapped, cracked and dry out much more easily than other areas. Consequently, using dedicated products or formulas to regularly coat our hands, which need more oil or moisturiser than the face or body, helps balance dryness.
In particular, the skin on the back of our hands, being more exposed, takes more of a pounding than any other part of the body. Neal’s Yard Frankincense Intense Hand Treatment Serum has been specifically formulated to target the the delicate skin on the back of your ‘donnies’ in order to visibly reduce signs of stress and ageing … great news!
Neal’s Yard formulated its Frankincense Intense Hand Treatment Serum to firm the skin and to reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles and age spots, boosted by sustainably sourced ribose, narcissus extract, provitamin A-rich organic rosehip seed oil, and antioxidant rich turmeric.
But do the claims stack up? Well, they are backed up by a consumer trial based on 119 women over 6 weeks, after which 90% agreed that the skin on the back of their hands felt smoother, 75% agreed the skin tone on the back of their hands looked more even, and 79% agreed the skin on the back of their hands felt firmer and tighter.
Our tester followed a three step frankincense mindfulness hand ritual, every morning and evening, for two weeks:
- Pump a small amount onto the back of the hand and gently massage together;
- Massage through to the tips of the fingers, but pay pay particular attention to the nails, until 100% absorbed;
- Inhale the relaxing aroma in long, deep breaths.
The results …
Neal’s Yard say “Age well, stress less” … What’s New Health and Beauty Review says … “we agree – smoother, firmer, more even tone on the hands, and a value-added feeling of enhanced wellbeing and soother senses”.
Smooth your hands and soothe your senses!
Highly recommended – 5* from us at Whatsnewhealthandbeautyreviews!