Try it Tuesday

I haven’t posted in quite a long while but my sister has started a new “thing” over on her blog called “Try it Tuesday”. Since I’m always trying new things, I thought I’d join in and tell you about some of the products that I have discovered that have served me well.

Today I’d like to tell you about a moisturizing cream that I have found that is simply the best thing since sliced bread. I have always suffered with dry skin. I mean REALLY dry skin, with cracking and splitting and flakes and itching and pain and aggravation. I’m sure part of this is caused by the fact that I live in a climate with 0% humidity and average temps of over 100 every day for 4 or 5 months a year. To say it is hot and dry in this part of the world would be a minor understatement. I also imagine I just have a natural tendency to have dry skin. We all have our issues.

I think I have tried about every moisturizer in the marketplace from the common brands of lotion you buy at Wal-Mart to the Bath and Body lotions in the mall and the specialty items specifically made for problem skin. All of them helped to some degree but nothing really cured the problem. Just made it feel better for a while and then back to dry, itchy skin.

And then one day I found it……Nirvana! I came across the website for Origins products. I can’t recall exactly how I got to their website the first time but I think I saw a magazine ad for some interesting sounding “body soufflé”. Since I’m always a sucker for trying a new cream, lotion or moisturizer of some kind, I ordered a jar. It was VERY expensive (at least to me) and I thought along the lines of “it better make my skin feel like soft, sleek, expensive, silk for that price”, and guess what? It does! However, the body soufflé, which is truly wonderful, is, surprisingly, not what this post is about.

With each order of Origins body soufflé that I receive, they always send me a sample of one of their other products. A few months ago they sent me a sample of something called “A Perfect World” described as “intensely hydrating body cream with white tea”. Anything that is “intensely hydrating” means it’s immediately going on my hands. My hands are my biggest problem when it comes to dryness. They crack and split at the tips of my fingers, usually right at the edge of my nails, and it is EXTREMELY painful. My entire hands are always dry no matter what product I have used, but my fingertips are the worst.

So I took the sample tube of “A Perfect World” and I slathered it on my hands daily for the few days that the small tube lasted. It was wonderful! Rich and creamy and it immediately soaked right into my skin, not just sitting on the top as many products do. By the end of the tube, I was hooked and I ordered a jar. Now, several jars later, I can honestly say that this is the best moisturizing product I have EVER used on my hands. My hands are soft and normally moist, not dry at all, and best of all, no cracked fingertips!! I can’t remember the last time I had a bad split or crack on the tip of my fingers. I just don’t get them anymore. This is truly a wonderful, fantastic hand cream. I put it on generously every night at bed time and that’s it. No more problem hands. Try it, you’ll like it!!