

People can choose between two slightly different formulas for hydration, or repair and protection. This Kelowna-based company has over a dozen different small-batch hand creams in sumptuous scents like Apricot Brandy and Lavender Smoke so you can mix and match fragrances in the car, living room and office. The brand also makes a moisturizing topical antimicrobial called Safe Hands with lavender, patchouli, tea tree, aloe, sunflower seed oil, and shea nut oil. The wellness brand offers two types of hand lotion, including a citrus hand cream in Liquid Sunshine, Also one of the diffuser scents, it blends shea butter, oat extract, and mandarin. Saje is best known for its diffusers and essential oil blends but during the pandemic, it introduced hand sanitizer and antimicrobial hand lotion - and is one of the few businesses that hasn't discontinued the offering since. Harlow has a storefront on East 15th in the Fraser-Kingsway area. The slave, meanwhile, is pure beeswax, shea butter, and olive oil. The base of the body balm is shea butter and coconut oil spiced with combinations of lavender, bergamot, citrus, jasmine, cedar, among other ingredients. The brand is all-natural and uses essential oils to scent its products, not synthetics. The body balm and body salve can be used on hands as well as the rest of the body and comes in four different scents or unscented for people allergic to fragrance. Harlow's body moisturizing products are multi-purpose. Some of the ingredients are even sourced from surrounding B.C.
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For those with extra dry cracked skin around the nails, there is also cuticle butter with beeswax, lemon oil, and mango. Lush has a citrus hand balm that uses aloe, orange, and shea butter, a chamomile cream with cocoa butter, and a thicker cream that uses cashew, almond and pumpkin seed butters. So when you use one of Lush's four hand products, it was made in Vancouver. The first ever Lush store in North America opened in Vancouver in 1996 and there's a Lush factory on Ontario Street. Lush is, of course, a global corporation, but it's headquartered in London, Vancouver, and Toronto. These lotions and balms from local brands are a few to consider for your moisturizing needs this season.

When putting on your face moisturizer, bring it down to the neck and then rub your hands together to get rid of the excess. Our hands get beaten up throughout the day and age drastically throughout our lifetimes because while we put SPF and lotions and potions on our faces and bodies, we often neglect our hands.įrom October to March I have to keep an armada of hand creams on my desk, next to the bed, and in my purse to keep the dryness at bay. The earlier and more frequently you can moisturize your hands the better. I woke up with a roughness to my hands, a promise of the dehydration to come as the temperatures continue to dip. The moment the first autumn leaf hit the ground, my skin knew.
