With all the frequent hand-washing and hand-sanitising over the last few months - and still continuing - my hands are pretty dry and scaly to be honest.

So I asked friends for recommendations for their favourite (cruelty-free and natural) hand creams.

I have some great suggestions that I look forward to trying, but one of the suggestions I was able to try right away.

Like within a couple of minutes of reading it … because it’s simple and natural and uses two ingredients that most of us will have at home already.

And I do love a natural home made beauty product as you’ll probably know!

This lovely suggestion was given by my friend Leah who also said it’s the only thing that cleans her hands after making her resin jewellery.

Side note: I have some of her earrings and love them. In fact I think I have now about five pairs! Some of the resin studs and some drop silver leaf earrings. She makes lovely things and they’re super good value too. Her Etsy shop is HERE.

Ok, back to the magical dry hands saviour!

This is it.

Olive oil. And sugar.

That’s all.

Mix together and then just massage into your hands, and round the nails and up onto your wrists. It’s a really good scrub and feels great.

Rinse off and wash hands with a nice gentle soap and that’s it.

I have been doing this every couple of days since hearing of it and my hands are already so much better - and they feel so, so good when you’ve just finished it too.

Literally, I dry my hands after the soap washing stage and then can’t stop stroking them!