When sweater weather hits, so do dry, chapped hands. Our hands go through a lot every single day — washing, cold air, sun exposure, cleaning products… no wonder they often end up dry, rough, or irritated.
A good hand cream is a must, but choosing the right one makes all the difference! Some formulas contain controversial preservatives, allergenic fragrances, parabens suspected of being endocrine disruptors, or mineral oils derived from petroleum.To make things easier for you, here are 10 hand creams rated 100/100 on Yuka, formulated without harmful ingredients.
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Unscented Hand Cream - EO
Excellent - 100/100
With a fragrance-free and cruelty-free formulation designed for sensitive skin, this hand cream has a rich and velvety texture. |
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Oatmeal Unscented Hand Cream - Attitude
Excellent - 100/100
This hand cream is vegan and made with 98.9% naturally sourced ingredients, including oat extract, in a lightweight, fragrance-free formula. |
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Coconut Hand Balm - Sephora
Excellent - 100/100
Formulated with shea butter, coconut, and plant-based ingredients in a vegan composition, this hand balm is travel-sized for on-the-go use. |
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Badger Balm Hand Balm - Badger
Excellent - 100/100
With antioxidant-rich ingredients and a fresh scent, this balm is designed for use on rough or chapped skin and suitable for sensitive hands. |
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Pure Goat Milk Hand Cream - Beekman
Excellent - 100/100
This hand cream features a fragrance-free formula made with goat milk and botanical extracts, designed for dry and sensitive skin. |
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Unscented Hand Cream - Weleda
Excellent - 100/100
With a formula free from ethyl alcohol, parabens, phthalates, and synthetic preservatives, this cream is cruelty-free and designed for gentle daily care. |
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Rêve de Miel Hand Cream - Nuxe
Excellent - 100/100
This hand cream is formulated with honey, botanical oils such as avocado, sweet almond, and argan, along with shea butter and vitamin E for a non-oily finish. |
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The Hand Cream - Nécessaire
Excellent - 100/100
Formulated with niacinamide, ceramides, marula oil, marula butter, and shea butter, this hand cream is fragrance-free and vegan. |
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Cold Cream Hand Cream - Avène
Excellent - 100/100
With a rich and non-greasy texture, this hand cream is designed for dry and chapped hands with a fast-absorbing formula. |
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Intensive Hand Balm - L'Occitane
Excellent - 100/100
This hand balm contains 25% shea butter in a rich, family-friendly formula suitable for ages three and up, designed for dry to very dry skin. |
Like all our rankings, this one was conducted completely independently, and no brand has paid to be included.
Are these good also for melanin skin?
Thanks for the advice. They are so many bad ones
Are these good aldo for melanin skin?
Where can I buy these hand creams? Are they available at my local Clarkes health food store
In Palm Desert, or do I have to purchase online (Amazon)?
Thank you! What about a body cream?
Es muy bueno saber lo que uno elige para usar, muchas gracias Yuka por tu gran aporte a la salud.
Wow. Needed. Working on getting away from chemicals. Beautiful.
Thank you for this information. My mom and I use the Beekman products and love them.
Thank you for the information.
thank you is good to know what cream are good for you skin
Very grateful for your testing and helpful information, I always check my Yuka site before buying anything especially baby products. You guys are awesome
Me too, for sure.
Just on time!
Thank you! I appreciate the information.
Thank you for keeping us safe and healthy.
Thank you for sharing this. I have really dry hands from washing them often.
As expected, those great items aren’t usually found in the big box stores. I am thankful you send these findings out to us. Thank you
Thanks for doing such a great job, I love your app!
As a nurse, I wash my hands several times a day, so they are often very dry. When winter comes they get even worse. I’m always look for good hand hand cream. Thank you so much for sharing.
I truly appreciate what you do – you provide an invaluable resource. Still, not everyone can afford hand creams or other products that cost as much as gold. I realize that it’s a bit of a compromise but it would be helpful to those of us who don’t do all our shopping at Whole Foods if you could recommend more solidly good products that are more affordable to more people. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this information. I need to use hand cream everyday. The list you provided includes a great variety to choose from.
Thanks for sharing, I have really dry skin my thumbs get cracks!!!
Appreciate, nice to receive with winter coming on!
Thanks so much for this and all you do. Couldn’t food shop without you.
Thank you for the ratings. It makes my shopping experience much easier.
I would downgrade L’occitane due to the container which is aluminum and crimps. I was unable to get about 25% of the balm due to this. Not a good thing for such an expensive brand.
Any chance you might do this type of thing for body creams/lotions? That would help make my winter MUCH less itchy 🙂
Are any of these hand creams gluten free?
Badger Balm states it’s gluten free.
What stores do you normally buy the hand creams?
Thank you for this helpful list. Do you have any recommendations for facial products like makeup, moisturizers and skin care?
Look at Boom products- love their Boomsilk for my face, only product I’ve ever used on my face and don’t break out and I’m 66 yrs old. Only made from Olive oil, water, beeswax, honey and Vit E. So I put it on my eyes and lips too. Love their Boomsilk cream and would slather it on my whole body if it were cheaper. Basically just use olive oil or coconut oil on the rest of my body.
Thank you! This is great help in choosing a good product.
JULIE, some passed (100%) products have non-organic, GMO oils (usually listing their botanical names). I’m worried about glyphosate residue in otherwise clean cosmetics. I had an AI search for me and it had a very difficult time finding 100% safe examples! What do you think —is perfect impossible? Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
This is great! And right timing! Scanning bars is time consuming. It has been an eye opener but this list helps a lot! Thanks for all the work!
Thanks guys – you guys are great ( Yuka ) is definitely a great information app – I depend on you guys information every time I go shopping 🥳
Thank you I appreciate the info and will try one of these.
Thank you
Thank you do much for this information. I suffer from severely dry skin especially my hands in the winter. I really need this guidance, I appreciate your emails, they are always so informative and helpful to lead to find a better product
A good read
This is great. I do wish that we could use non-metric measurements. What ever happened to ounces? AARRRG!
It’s a French company! The world is larger than the USA.
Thank you for all you do to help keep us safe. My wife and I both enjoy helping other people find you YUKA app and use it.
I use MUSTELA hydrating cream for face and body. Fragrance free vegan formula Very affordable. Available on Amazon, and Whole Foods.
How about acure?
Thank you and keep up the good 👍 work you are doing for all of us, may God bless you 🙏 thanks again!
Thank you for all your hard work!!
It’s so important what products we use. It affects our health.
I have never heard of any of these
Thank you for looking at these!
This was really helpful. Thanks
Thank you! I look forward to your information.
Thank you for this information because it’s about time that I should go and look for cream do you know where it is so
Where do you find them?
Thank you for doing this and sharing❣️
Keep up the great work!
Thank you! Very very helpful!
Very helpful. Thanks
Thank you so much ❤️ I love Yuka AB and I gave it to all my friends ❤️
Oh thank you.
I use Cetaphil and have for years. Rated high on your app. Curious that the did not mention it
I have the driest hands especially in the winter. The only hand and body lotion I purchase is L’bri. The purest ingredients ever seen in a hand and body lotion.
What about L’Bri?
Thanks for this!! I’m finding it difficult to obtain my former favorite so I’ll be trying out some of these!
Thank you
Good to know. Are all Bath and body and soaps zero out of 100 or is it just the lemon?
Thank you for this 🙏🏽😊
Thank you for sharing. Always looking for a good hand cream since I always have very dry hands that sometimes even had cuts. Really appreciate it!
What are the top 10 bathing soaps that rates 100/100
You are so helpful in posts like this! Thank you! I frequently use it in my decisions on many products. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for these Yuka recommendations !!!!! Appreciate this !!!!!
Could you please rate some shampoo products without harmful chemicals ????? Thank you🌝
I would like you to test and rank L’Bri hand cream.
I find this info well worth it. Thank you.
Where do I find Unscented Hand Cream – EO for $4.76? I can’t find it for that price anywhere online.
That’s the price per 50ml. The packaging you’re finding is probably larger.
Thank you for the great info, but are there any creams in Walmart, Sams, Walgreens HEB or CVS?
What about the popular brands in the stores like Walmart. Jergens for example.
Look them up on free Yuka app. They have chemicals.
It would be helpful if you left links to sites that sell these handcreams.
Wonderful! Could you rate Lbri products? They are plant based and I’m very curious what you think?
Have hair products been rated? The brands I scan are not rated or are poor. Thank you
Have used the lemon scented and love it!!
Thanks for sharing these hand creams. Will definitely be trying a couple of these.
We love YUKA!!!!
These days we don’t buy anything w/o consulting your app.
Thanks so much!!!
Thanks for sending these hand creams!
can you look at less expensive hand
creams even if it’s not 100/100
70 and 80/100 will do
thank you
Thank you for giving prices and listing from the least expensive
Where do you purchase these?
Which of the hand creams that were posted here don’t leave a greasy feel? Many hand/body creams/lotions don’t seem to be absorbed into the skin.
Have you ever tested any of Melaleuca’s products? Their Renew hand Cream is effective for dry and chapped skin. It has even helped people with psoriasis.
I second this! I love melaleuca products and feel they are safe but have found they don’t rate well on here and i don’t understand why.