Trix for your dry hands (Atrixo Intensive Protection Cream)

Member Name: tb4ms

Product:	Atrixo Intensive Protection Cream
Date:	13/05/07 (146 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lovely smell and great for very dry hands.

Disadvantages: A little greasy!

This is another one of my 'must haves' for my very dry hands over the winter months.

I suffer from very dry, chapped skin in between my fingers during the winter, which can be very painful and I have been using Atrixo Intensive Protection Cream for many years, well before other companies were bringing out their magic creams.

~ Price ~

A 200ml tub currently costs £3.99 at Boots. This really isn't a bad price considering I have had my tub for 2 winters now and I'm still only half way through it!

~ Packaging ~

This is a light green tub with a screw top lid. I'm not keen on the tub only because I'm not overly keen on the colour but that's a personal preference.

I do however prefer tubs to tubes as you are guaranteed no waste as you can scrape the last remains of the cream from a tub.

~ Other Atrixo Products ~

* Regenerating Cream
* Enriched Moisturising Cream
* Hand and Body Cream with Camomile

~ What is Atrixo Intensive Protection Cream? ~

It's a specially enriched hand cream that provides intensive moisturising and protection for rough, dry hands.

~ Main Ingredients ~

* Natural glycerine ~ balances the skin's moisture level
* Pure silicones ~ help protect against damage

~ No artificial colourants
~ pH balanced with your skin
~ Derematologically approved

~ My experience ~

This is a white, quite greasy cream with a great clean, fresh smell to it.

It is very easy to rub in but be careful not to be tempted to put too much on as it can leave a greasy residue if too much is applied which makes it tricky to pick things up until a couple of minutes later.

It really does work wonders with my dry, chapped skin. It gives instant relief to them and what were very dry, painful to move fingers because of the little cuts inbetween them are instantly moisturised and comfortable.

This therefore does not sting when applied to slightly broken skin. Since I don't suffer from eczema etc I wouldn't like to say how this would react. It is quite highly perfumed so I can imagine that it wouldn't be great for people with extremely dry skin conditions.

I think it would be helpful if the manufacturer's perhaps put on whether this cream is helpful for eczema or psoriasis or whether it should be avoided.

Whilst it is slightly greasy, I much prefer the smell to that of The Body Shop's Hemp Hand Protector. It gives instant relief to dry hands but I find that I do need to re-apply it after an hour or so on particularly bad days.

To the best of my knowledge this doesn't stain clothes, never has with any of mine but I can imagine it's not great to apply whilst wearing silk etc...

Summary: A good hand cream.