Margaret Dabbs Pure Hand Cream & Cuticle Oil

She may be best known for feet – and we’ve long entrusted ours to her team, for medical pedicures. But less well-known is the fact that Margaret Dabbs also offers brilliant targeted products for those other hard-working extremities: our hands.

A couple of treats from Margaret Dabbs have been caring for our hands and nails lately, ensuring that they don’t tell the world how we’re often up to our wrists in potting compost, or (in Sarah’s case), wrangling large horses. (

Never mind handling lots and lots of paper in the annual office recycling clear-out, what with paper being so very dehydrating for the skin that touches it…

These sit under the ‘Pure’ banner at Margaret Dabbs, meaning they’re vegan (and therefore avoid the signature ingredient in her main range, which is emu oil).

First up, Margaret Dabbs Pure Hands Repairing Hand Cream: lusciously-textured, but swiftly-absorbed. It’s very lightly-scented indeed, meaning it won’t clash with what you’re wearing, and relies on ingredients including sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil and glycerine for its softening action. A tip, when using: Margaret recommends smoothing into the backs of the hands, rather than all over. That’s the bit that ages fast (palms never really see the sun!), and you’ll find your hand cream goes a lot further if you do this, rather than putting a big dollop in the palms, and massaging all over.

Second up, a super-easy-to-use rollerball Pure Hands Cuticle Oil/£18 for 10ml, which features borage seed and jojoba, along with soothing bisabolol. It’s super-easy to massage into the nail zone because of the rollerball, and our cuticles are properly tidy, as a result.

Pure Hands Repairing Hand Cream/£18 for 75ml – buy here

Pure Hands Cuticle Oil /£18 for 10ml - buy here

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