Review on hand cream (Crabtree & Evenlyn, La Prairie and Neutrogena)

I have a sweet sister-in-law who claimed that she has never got any luck when it comes to lucky draws. Well, she is wrong. She has been very lucky recently. She won herself an iMac during her company's annual dinner, and one week later she got herself a Crabtree & Evelyn Avocado ultra moisturising hand therapy during a small Christmas party. Sweet as usual, she never forgets about me; she decided to gift this hand lotion to me as my 1st Christmas present this year (probably the one and the only one haha!). Thank you ASC (her initial).

So in this post, I am going to write my review on this hand lotion comparing to other hand cream that I have used.

First of all, I would like to correct myself that I am not the person who like to apply lotion on my hand and body. In fact I hate to be covered by layer of lotion. They normally feel sticky, greasy, unbreathable. And all because of that, I become very picky when it comes to hand and/or body lotion/cream. That's why, I believe I can give a fairly good review on hand and body lotion/cream.

Right below are the photos of my Christmas present, selling at RM78 in Malaysia. More details please click here for their website.

I love the smell of this hand cream (although a little bit stronger to me) and the texture is great! It melted and absorbed quickly into my skin without any greasy or sticky feeling and my skin can still breathes happily (ok, I know it sounds funny).

I have once given a sample of La Prairie Cellular Hand Cream I know this is a much expensive product which I should be kissing and value it like a treasure. However to my disappointment, this is not the type of hand cream I would like to have. I don't like the smell, it smells really strong and I don't like the texture as well. Alright, I got to be fair a bit here, some of you may like it if you have a really really dry skin. But I will not recommend this to those who has sweaty hands as it makes me feel like as if there is one layer of stuff covering my hands. I never managed to finish this small little sample and it gone bad before I realise it and throw it away.

I have only bought one hand cream in my life so far and that is Neutrogena Hand Cream. It was recommended by a good male friend of mine who claimed that he has sweaty and yet very dry hands. He swears that this is by far the best product he has ever tried. I bought this product with no regret. It really did what it says - "just a dab relieves dry chapped hands". With just few small dabs, I can apply to both hands front and back including all my fingers! It smells nice, very light; and it absorbed into my skins in seconds. My hands feel smooth, nice and again; breathing happily! It lasted very very long (years for me as I don't apply them everyday).

On top of the smell and texture of the products, I would also like to compare the safety of the products. I have stumbled upon this website where you can get rating of the safety of the products. They give you the explanation on the ratings as well. If you are serious about environmental and safety of the products you are/will be using you will be shocked by the findings of this website. Not all products claimed to be natural are safe and vice versa.

Now, please see the ratings of the three hand creams here (0-2 low hazard, 3 - 6 moderate hazard, 7-10 high hazard):

1. Crabtree & Evelyn Avocado Hand Therapy - No rating for this product. But most of their products are moderate hazard.

Crabtree & Evelyn Naturals Botanical Body Butter, Avocado Butter, Olive & Basil is rated at 6. Giving this product having the similar ingredients, I would suggest the rating of this product to be the same.

2. La Prairie Cellular Hand Cream - No rating for any product of this brand

3. Neutrogena Hand Cream - Rated "3" - moderate hazard

None of the products above are consider safe! You need to score 0 to 2 to be green and safe enough in this website. Well, at least they are not high hazard (apart from La prairie as there is no rating on this product).

These are just my reviews and no offend if you feel otherwise.

Christmas Eve... I wish all of you have a peaceful silent night!