Burt's Bees Burts Bees Hand Salve 3oz
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- Gender or Age: Men Women Unisex
- Care Type: Bath and Body
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Great for dry, chapped "winter" hands
Pros
Heals dry, cracked hands quickly, pleasant scent good for men & women
Cons
Too greasy for daytime use on most parts of the hand
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Burt's Bees Hand Salve hands down beats every other thick, gloppy hand moisturizer I've tried!
I got a 3 oz. tin of Burt's Bees Hand Salve as part of a gift basked with a variety of Burt's Bees products. According to the Burt's Bees web site, the 3 oz. tin of normally sells for $8. That may seem like a lot, but you'll see that a 3 oz. tin can really last a long time!
The basics
Burt's Bees is a natural personal care product company. They originally started out selling all beeswax-based products like lip balm and hand salves, but their product line now includes a variety of other items (not all of which contain beeswax) such as insect repellent, sunscreen, soaps and more. Many of their products are 100% natural. You can tell "how natural" a product is (so to speak) because the company puts the percentage of natural ingredients right on the front of the product. Burt's Bees Hand Salve is 98.05% natural.
The ingredients in the Hand Salve are: prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, beeswax, fragrance, tocopheryl acetate, symphytum officinale (comfrey) root extract, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaves, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) flowers, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil and canola oil.
Burt's Bees Hand Salve comes in an aluminum tin. It's recyclable and easy to transport. (I've never had a problem with the lid coming off.) The salve itself is a yellow-ish color and has a spicy, herby scent. You can definitely smell the lavender and rosemary, but they are overwhelming or "too girly" (so says my husband).
The instructions are simple - apply to your hands as needed.
My experience
Burt's Bees Hand Salve bills itself as "a farmer's friend." I'm not a farmer, or even a gardener, but I do live in New England and my hands get very dry, chapped and sometimes even cracked (especially in the spots between my fingers) during the long winters. I was nearly at my wits end one year with gloppy moisturizers that didn't seem to do anything for my raw, red, cracked hands when I remember the tin of Burt's Bees Hand Salve that had come in the kit I'd purchased in the summer.
I dug the tin out of my closet and applied a very small amount to my hands before bed. I've used salves before, so I knew a little goes a long way. Applying it I was reminded of an old home remedy that my mom used to use for chapped, cracked skin and even diaper rash in a pinch. It was called "Bag Balm" and it was actually designed to relieve chapped and cracked skin on cow udders. (As an aside, I believe the company has since tried to market it as a beauty supply - but I've never been able to find it locally.)
Anyway - back to the Burt's Bees Hand Salve. By the next morning after the first use, my hands were already starting to look and feel a little better. Within 2 days they were completely healed. I continued to use Burt's Bees Hand Salve for the rest of the winter at the first sign of any dryness or redness and my hands always recovered quickly and didn't get chapped or cracked again.
That was 2 winters ago and I'm STILL working on the same tin of Burt's Bees Hand Salve. In fact, I just pulled it out after I developed a dry patch under my wedding ring (probably from moisture getting trapped under there) and it cleared it up after just 2 applications. My husband also sometimes uses it on small patches of eczema that he gets on his elbows. His patches take a little longer to heal, but are usually gone within a week.
Burt's Bees Hand Salve is pretty greasy and takes a long time to sink into your skin, so I generally apply it at night - especially if I want it to stay on the tips or pads of my fingers. Otherwise, it will just come off on everything you touch. However, I find that I can apply it during the daytime if I'm having a problem with the skin between my fingers (the "webs") because that skin doesn't really come in contact with other surfaces.
The basics
Burt's Bees is a natural personal care product company. They originally started out selling all beeswax-based products like lip balm and hand salves, but their product line now includes a variety of other items (not all of which contain beeswax) such as insect repellent, sunscreen, soaps and more. Many of their products are 100% natural. You can tell "how natural" a product is (so to speak) because the company puts the percentage of natural ingredients right on the front of the product. Burt's Bees Hand Salve is 98.05% natural.
The ingredients in the Hand Salve are: prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, beeswax, fragrance, tocopheryl acetate, symphytum officinale (comfrey) root extract, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaves, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) flowers, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil and canola oil.
Burt's Bees Hand Salve comes in an aluminum tin. It's recyclable and easy to transport. (I've never had a problem with the lid coming off.) The salve itself is a yellow-ish color and has a spicy, herby scent. You can definitely smell the lavender and rosemary, but they are overwhelming or "too girly" (so says my husband).
The instructions are simple - apply to your hands as needed.
My experience
Burt's Bees Hand Salve bills itself as "a farmer's friend." I'm not a farmer, or even a gardener, but I do live in New England and my hands get very dry, chapped and sometimes even cracked (especially in the spots between my fingers) during the long winters. I was nearly at my wits end one year with gloppy moisturizers that didn't seem to do anything for my raw, red, cracked hands when I remember the tin of Burt's Bees Hand Salve that had come in the kit I'd purchased in the summer.
I dug the tin out of my closet and applied a very small amount to my hands before bed. I've used salves before, so I knew a little goes a long way. Applying it I was reminded of an old home remedy that my mom used to use for chapped, cracked skin and even diaper rash in a pinch. It was called "Bag Balm" and it was actually designed to relieve chapped and cracked skin on cow udders. (As an aside, I believe the company has since tried to market it as a beauty supply - but I've never been able to find it locally.)
Anyway - back to the Burt's Bees Hand Salve. By the next morning after the first use, my hands were already starting to look and feel a little better. Within 2 days they were completely healed. I continued to use Burt's Bees Hand Salve for the rest of the winter at the first sign of any dryness or redness and my hands always recovered quickly and didn't get chapped or cracked again.
That was 2 winters ago and I'm STILL working on the same tin of Burt's Bees Hand Salve. In fact, I just pulled it out after I developed a dry patch under my wedding ring (probably from moisture getting trapped under there) and it cleared it up after just 2 applications. My husband also sometimes uses it on small patches of eczema that he gets on his elbows. His patches take a little longer to heal, but are usually gone within a week.
Burt's Bees Hand Salve is pretty greasy and takes a long time to sink into your skin, so I generally apply it at night - especially if I want it to stay on the tips or pads of my fingers. Otherwise, it will just come off on everything you touch. However, I find that I can apply it during the daytime if I'm having a problem with the skin between my fingers (the "webs") because that skin doesn't really come in contact with other surfaces.
