With colder days setting in, a good hand cream is a must 🤲
Our skin feels it straight away — dry hands, chapped knuckles, that tight, uncomfortable feeling.
But with shelves full of hand creams, how do you know which ones actually provide relief without any dodgy ingredients?
Many contain allergens, irritants, or even hormone-disrupting ingredients. Choosing the right one really does matter, for both comfort and long-term health.
That’s why we’ve rounded up 10 of the best-rated hand creams on Yuka. Keep your hands soft and soothed all season long 🍁
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Concentrated Unscented Hand Cream - Neutrogena
Excellent - 100/100
This hand cream features a concentrated glycerin-rich formula that is fragrance-free, ideal for sensitive skin, and provides over 200 applications per bottle. |
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Manuka Honey Hand Cream - Dr. Organic
Excellent - 100/100
With a floral, gourmand, and sweet fragrance, this formula can be used on hands, cuticles, and other dry areas such as elbows and knees. |
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Rêve de Miel Hand Cream - Nuxe
Excellent - 100/100
This hand cream is formulated with honey, precious botanical oils including sweet almond and argan, as well as shea butter and vitamin E for extra hydration. |
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Intensive Hand Balm - L'Occitane
Excellent - 100/100
Formulated with 25% shea butter and a vegan composition, this hand balm is designed for very dry and sensitive skin and is suitable for the whole family ages 3 and up. |
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Superfood Hand Repairing Balm - Garnier
Excellent - 93/100
With a light cocoa scent, this hand balm is made for extra dry hands and contains 98% natural-origin ingredients. It is enriched with ceramide in a vegan formula. |
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Paw Paw Balm - Tiger Moon
Excellent - 93/100
This multi-use balm can be applied to hands, nails, cuticles, and lips, and is formulated with castor seed oil, grape seed oil, sunflower seed oil, olive fruit oil, and shea butter. |
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Dark Spot Correcting Hand Cream - Caudalie
Excellent - 93/100
With a vegan composition, this hand cream is formulated for anti-dark spot care and contains organic shea butter, avocado oil, and viniferine. |
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Sensitive Skin Smoothing Hand Cream - M&S Beauty
Excellent - 86/100
This hand cream is fragrance-free and formulated with oat active and nourishing butters, in a rich texture ideal for sensitive skin. |
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Intensive Hand Cream - Balmonds
Excellent - 86/100
Suitable for sensitive skin, this fragrance-free and vegan formula combines hemp seed oil, shea butter, chamomile, and calendula for deep hydration. |
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Superfood Hand Therapy - Tropic
Good - 72/100
This lightweight hand cream is made with oat milk, olive squalane, jojoba oil, shea butter, macadamia oil, kokum, and mango butter to nourish and protect. |
Like all our rankings, this one was conducted completely independently, and no brand has paid to be included.
Which of these do not leak microplastics into the product and then onto your skin?
From Healthy to Unhealthy ingredients… I thank you for helping me to Pick the Ones that matter to my Eating health enormously.. Counting Saturates & Sugar & learning the Additives & esp. what these All do to the Oceans & Earth even if the ingredients appear ok… I thank you unreservedly for Changing my Outlook on shopping ..& what we individually can do to help ourselves 🌊🌍 xx
Can you do one for foot creams please? 🙏🙏🙏
I was introduced by my daughter in law to ‘TROPIC’ products over a year ago and have been delighted with the results in using to date the hand and hair products.
Thank you for all your research which I refer to constantly as do many of my friends.
Brilliant, thank you,love the app
Helps me to shop healthier for my family and especially for my grandchildren
Surely using aluminium tubes this changes the purity of the product?
Thank you for all you do, i check everything now before i buy. Its nice to know which hand cream to buy for the best.
it’s a brilliant app I can’t do my shopping without it thank you Yuka..
Thanks really helps , want to stay as Nateral as I possibly can , and these emails helps
Brilliant keep them coming.
Great to know no payment for hand cream scores, just purely based on contents that are beneficial
Thank you. I use a variety of hand creams, and I do have this one. Ido find Garnier and Nivea very good too.
That’s very helpful as I have tried all different makes I do find l’occitane very greasy so only put it on at night. I’ve also tried M&S hand cream which seem to work. But the advice is very helpful. Thankyou.
Useful!
Brilliant thank you
Very helpful thank you. Being the season of dry chapped hands I had already began to explore hand creams but you have now done the research for me 😊
How to get it in pakistan
You mentioned The Seawood Bath as an alternative to Goldbond which I had bought in the past. Why isn’t it on the list I just read?
Thank you, Donna
I use Dr Organics all the time. It’s pleasantly scented and dries quickly leaving my hands dry. They do a very good heel cream and the body cream is good too. I’d be hesitant to use the Neutrogena because I tried their body cream and found it took forever to dry and left my hands feeling so sticky I had to wash them afterwards, somewhat defeating the purpose.
Sorry, that first sentence should say ‘leaving my hands soft’.
I always put face creams through Yuka before I buy them.. I have been happily surprised and also shocked at certain ratings..
Thank you for hand cream recommendations.. Of course, the ratings can change, I had a shampoo that was rated good at first time of buying and poor at second. I suppose some ingredients must have changed. Thank you again… Keep up the good work!! 😃
Hi, I love your app by the way! Just wondering why a brand like the Weleda hand cream wouldn’t appear in the ranking? I would imagine it is likely to be above a brand such as Garnier?
Best regards
Lisa
… fantastic to read, thank you .. x And we use and love Neutrogena hand cream ⭐️!! Used and loved for a long time and a fab score .. thank you .. xx
Oh! I forgot to mention L’Occitane as well.
Apart from Neutrogena, Nuxe, and Caudalie who are still testing on animals and selling products in China, when cruelty-free alternative options are available.
Not trusting YUKA anymore after this nonsense recommendations. Do some research, please, before accepting the money you get paid to promote companies that torture animals for profit.
Thanks to yuka, I now wash my face with femfresh instead of the face wash that I was using as that scored very low. If it’s good enough for diwn there it’s good enough for the face!! 👍🏼
Brilliant thanks for the information. Will help a lot
Thank you for this. It’s easier to make a decision about what is safe(est) to use eith your app.
Thank you! Have been searching for a good and safe hand cream.
Yuka is simply brilliant!
The easy to use app giving informative factual advise on multiple products we can use when choosing our everyday shopping
Great list thank you. I have used the l’Occitane one and it is really hydrating.
This is a fantastic list. Thanks again. I have never used neutrogena as hand cream exclusively so with this advice, I will definitely try it as my hands can get very very dry in winter.
Very surprised ‘Nursem’ hand cream not included in this round up – best I’ve ever used (light pleasant scent, good for sensitive skin, a tube donated to a nurse on each sale)
Useful information, but I would reject some of these, e.g. L’Occitane and Neutrogena, as they are not certified cruelty-free brands.
Thankyou. I too use neutrogena hand cream and would recommend it.
Thank you for that information. With winter fast approaching, hand creams are a must. I know which one I’m buying. 😀
Very useful indeed
Thanks for infermation
Thanks for the above, and thanks for keeping this app going! I’ve changed so many of my beauty products since I’ve had the app…it’s frightening to witness how many have harmful chemical are in beauty products let alone harmful additives in foods!!
Keep up the good work!
Ditto, I base all my purchases on what the app, says so along with buying as much organic produce as I can I now feel confident the other items I purchase are safe
Really appreciate the info thank you. Like others think, it would be great to have this information for face creams too. 👍😁
Thank you so much for this very useful information. I intended buying hand cream this weekend and I’ve used several of these products. Its good to know the ratings 👏.
Thankyou so much for this helpful info, at a relevant time.
I would love to receive a similar list for face creams. Is it at all possible please, as it would save me a lot of time?
Very useful as just about to replenish my hand cream
Thanks for sharing , this is really useful and I appreciate yuka.
Thank you – this is really useful and I appreciate Yuka.
Many thanks for the top 10 hanscream recommends, always need the handcream. How did I shop before without Yuka advice !
Where’s weleda?
Thanks can you answer a question what is the best cream for acne
As always many thanks for your expertise. It’s good to know which handcream I can buy without worrying.
It’s also important for me that they are cruelty free and vegan
Thanks good to know as I have sensitive skin that is prone to drying
Many thanks for your fantastic work. I can recommend the Dr Organic
Many thanks for your valuable work.
Do you have products of Ringana under your radar?
Thanks for the list of creams. I can recommend the Dr Organic as I use several of their products with Manuka Honey.
Brilliant time to be looking at hand cream as the cold weather is upon us. Always appreciate the information given.
I have been using Neutrogena and I happy with the results I would recommend to anyone looking for a reliable cream to try this product.
Thank you so much!
Love this – thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for this. It would also be great to know the top 10 face creams. I emailed you in the past, most likely regarding this, but didn’t hear back. I know you guys are very busy there. But any chance of letting me know which are the best ones? Cheers. John
Yuka you are the best 👍🏻thank you for your amazing service and advice 🙏🏻😍
Thanks very helpful information
2hd time of asking, could you please recommend a mayonnaise cream to go with most foods
Thank you so much for your information.
I always use Yuka for everything by shopping.
Really helpful information, thank you.
Very helpful info thank you. Is it possible to tell us which products are not tested on animals?
Yes. I’m vegan and it would be great to know which products are cruelty free with a vegan formula.
Thank you! Good to know 👌
Great information. Thank you 👍
Amazing lovely to know. Thankyou.
Thank you Yuka. The app really helps to shop the right products. I am making better shopping, especially things with less sugar.
Thanks Yuka for making shopping and life so easy / such a momentous change to the norm ! Sending love
Really useful and I have become a Neutrogena-fan thanks to Yuka. Can you please list the same for facial creams.
Thanks for all the info and your help. I have used the red unscented Neutrogena for years as I have really bad allergies to lots of smells. It’s quite hard finding products sometimes that are unscented.
Would you be able to do an article on a good unscented lip balm please as I have to constantly reapply lip balm and I’m guessing that’s because it’s not a good quality. A lot of them are flavoured and I hate them.
Thanks again.
Wow 🤩 Really good to know, and happy to report I was using one of the brands as gifted to me last Christmas! Sadly many of the shops in the uk that I try scanning beauty products with, find the app unfortunately doesn’t work.
I’m wondering if the barcodes are purposely blocked in some way so certain products won’t scan? 🤷🏻♀️
I’d also love recommendations for foundations and face creams please 🙏🏻
I wondering Molton Brown Body Wash, Hand wash, Shower Lotion and Hand care. Is it Molton Brown good? Or 💯?
Are any of these tested on animals?
Thank you! This summary is brilliant, saves so much time trolling round shops, particularly with cosmetics and creams as there are thousands out there and most rate terribly. Please do the same with other items.
Thanks.
You might want to check out Arbonne. They do a brilliant handcream which isn’t greasy or sticky. Completely vegan, no petrol, no chemicals and they are certified B Corp. and Halal friendly.
Really useful thank you
Thank you for the info on hand creams. My husband is a postman and uses Neutrogena as handling paper leaches moisture from your hands
Such a great app, I love it !!
Thank you so much. I know now exactly what to look for. So helpful
Thank you for all your advice on healthy products. It is so helpful when shopping. I do recommend your site to other’s
Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
Brilliant! So, so helpful. Time saving. Thank you.
Would very much appreciate same for other items, eg deodorants, body creams.
Very useful as I literally need to plaster hand cream onto my mitts daily…….probably because I’m using the wrong product.
That’s great to know. I am always using hand cream. I love the l’occitane one you referenced.
Hi Julia thank you for letting us know of good hand creams without chemicals
Thank you Julie. Since finding your app, it has changed our lives! I check everything now with Yuka and ditch items that are not good. We eat far better now and all my Family use the app too. These emails are most helpful, my 2 hand creams are in the top excellent range you listed. Thank you!
Hand cream used a lot in this family thanks for useful information.
Thank you so much my hands and lips suffer from the cold. That’s a great help.
Oh great thank you for sharing 👍🏽
These all look wonderful. Since Covid I have been using “Nursem – Caring hand cream”. Started by a nurse for nurses who hands are being constantly washed. I have found it invaluable and used it ever since. Have you come across it or tested it?
Brilliant! Since Yuka was introduced to me it’s changing the way I make my purchases.i am replacing as soon as I can get your recommendations. Blusher recommendations would be good to know. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you Julie for taking the time to share this information with us it’s very much appreciated kind regards.
Aveeno? Any good?
Most helpful, & enjoy overtime using def.first 3. Caudalie sounds interesting & really enjoy a pump system. Much easier & less awkward for older weaker fingers!!!
Thank you for all the work you do to help us make good choices. You are 🌟🌟🌟
Most helpful, & enjoy overtime using def.first 3. Caudalie sounds interesting & really enjoy a pump system. Much easier & less awkward for older weaker fingers!!!
Love the work you do. I am telling everybody about your app. It’s amazing.
Thank you .
Thank you so much really appreciate your work👏👏
Thank you. This really helps. Could you do hand washes next please?
Been using Manuka honey -Dr Organic hand cream & foot cream for a years and good to know they are 100% excellent
Thank you Yuka! This app is life changing!
So helpful, thank you.
Great thank you 4 picking these out
Brilliant app guides you through the minefields of toxic poison crapp
Thanks for the information re hand creams
I am just recovering from Shingles and it was my left hand that was affected. The hand cream I was recommended caused a reaction. I know what to look for now . Thank you.
Brilliant
Thanks for sharing this important information. The Yuka app is really helpful as it has helped me to choice only the best products out there.
Thank you for your recommendations I will go for the Neutrogena I have used this in the past and very happy with the results
I discovered the Garnier one in The Range recently and couldn’t believe the quality or the low price.
Very informative and useful
Very helpful for us all at this time of year
Super useful. Thank you.
Very useful to know! Thank you
Use neutrogona dry skin lotion, it’s excellent.
Did you test xlarins?
This is great, I am also swayed on my purchasing by animal testing and packaging, what’s it made from, can it be refilled, re-used or recycled (easily, not too many components) or is it made from recycled products. So many elements to think about!
Me too. I only buy cruelty free and a lot of products in Yuka are not
Absolutely – it would be good if they could at least mention if its cruelty free or not. That would narrow it down a lot.
To be sure, choose a Vegan one,which is mentioned .
I don’t know about the others on the list, but I do know Tropic alway tick all the boxes I look for when it comes to no animal testing, packaging, ingredients, recycling, etc.
Would be great to from Yuka on this topic.
Great to know , thank you
But are they animal friendly/vegan?
Thank you. It is good to have independent confirmation that the Neutrogena I have always used for many years is one of the best products available.
Just choose a Vegan approved one to be sure or what I do,is,check the Q&A on the product site page.To be fair to Yuka they do mention Vegan 🙂
Thanks for this, so useful
Just love the email with all the detail.
Thank you so much, appreciated.
I always like reading up on the yuka website about the safest products to look out for, thank you once again for your informative information ☺️
Hi. Are all these products cruelty free? It would be very useful for you to include this information so that people can make a fully informed choice. Thank you
Thanks so much.
I love L’Oxitane and have also seen the no. 1 Neutragena in the shops.
Why did tropic score 72 and all the others are excellent?
Because it looks like it has 4 low risk additives and the others have less or none
Yuka scores a lot of products that have essential oils in them lower due to poss irritants for people