I admit that I’m a little bit compulsive about washing my hands, which tends to make both my nails and my hands a bit dry, especially this time of year. Now’s the time when I need a heavy hand cream, and my favorite is Rescue Beauty’s Rosemary and Pamplemousse Hand Cream. I admit that I picked this up initially because rosemary is one of my all-time favorite scents (in spite of the fact that it’s an irritant), and because I just looove the word “pamplemousse.” (That’s “grapefruit,” another irritant, but doesn’t that word just make your tongue laugh?) Luckily, neither of these irritates my hands, which is terrific because this stuff smells sooooo yummy, I just wanna eat it, and I’m almost happy my hands are as crunchy as potato chips just so I can wear this stuff. It’s quite greasy (it contains, among other things, dimethicone and mineral, sunflower, and grape seed oils), so I can’t type with it on my hands; what I do is keep it on the sink, and after I wash my hands, I pour some on the back of one of my hands, then I rub the tops of both of my hands together, then using my thumbs, I work some onto my nails and cuticles. Because it’s so greasy and occlusive, it holds the moisture in. At bedtime, I’ll spray some NaPCA onto my hands and then rub it all over my hands (because I won’t be gunking up my keyboard then), and I’ll rub a little under my nose, too, just so I can enjoy the smell as I drift off. When I go out, people alway ask “What’s that smell?” and then grab my hands and sniff ‘em because they smell so good. Like I said, this stuff’s just for wintertime, because it’s just too heavy for the summer when my hands aren’t parched, but Rosemary and Pamplemousse Hand Cream is just one more reason I love wintertime!