One of our very, very best beauty tips is to keep a tube of hand cream beside the bed and slather lavishly, last thing at night.

And we've a handy-in-every-way new friend, here, to perform that most enjoyable of beauty gestures, from L’OCCITANE.

With whispers of immortelle – the powerfully antioxidant aromatic plant which is showcased in so many of their top-of-the-range skincare creations – it smells fab. But it’s the serum-in-oil texture that has us coming back to this with a little sigh of pleasure, night after night.

Cleverly – but also, slightly, duh-why-didn’t-they-do-this-before? – Youth Hand Cream is a sort of fusion with the famed shea butter range, another of L’OCCITANE’s famous collections, rich in that organically-certified and fairtrade ingredient. So the result, unsurprisingly, is super-nourishing.

L’OCCITANE do seem to be all over our site at the mo, with our prize draw for the Immortelle Collection here. But basically, that’s for no other reason than they’re coming up with launch after launch of good, skin-saving, great-smelling stuff.

Long may that last! If you could hear us, we’re clapping. (With our jolly soft hands.)

£24 for 75ml – buy here

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