Jun,1 2024
Hands
Hands dry out from water, soap, and paper, in that order.
The cream in this edit is thick enough to stay in a tin and light enough to vanish before you pick up a pen. We skipped a pump bottle because a pump doses too much and then the rest of the bottle sits in a humid room and separates.
Use it after the sink, not on a schedule. Morning and the end of the day are enough if the tin is actually there. A third time belongs to a day of washing-up or a day in the cold.
Put the tin where the hands actually get washed.
A cream in a bedroom drawer is a cream you forget. The basin, the kitchen tap, and the desk are the three places hands dry out. One tin in the place you use most is better than three tins you move around.
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Cream belongs in a tin you can open with one hand.
A little, worked in, beats a thick coat left on the knuckles.
Rub until the white is gone. A layer that sits on the skin smears on paper, a cup, and a phone. If you can still see it, it has not gone in yet.
Wash, then cream, then do the next thing. Cream on dirty hands seals the day in. Cream on wet hands spreads further and you use less.
Cuticles want the same cream, not a separate oil you will not keep. Push nothing. Soften, and leave the skin alone.
The tin is meant to be used up. If it lasts a year, it is in the wrong room.
Hands show the work before the face does. A tin within reach is the whole method.
If the cream stings on broken skin, wait until the split has closed. Cream is not a plaster.