Skin experts weigh in with their advice—and recommendations for favorite gentle hand lotions, sanitizers, and hand soaps—to help those with eczema and sensitive skin.
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If you’re like me and have eczema, you’re likely having a difficult time finding the right soap and hand sanitizer for sensitive skin, as constant handwashing and usage of alcohol-based products can be particularly drying. “The CDC wants hand sanitizers with 60% alcohol or higher used nearly every time you have to encounter a high-touch surface in public,” Paula Bourelly, MD, a dermatologist at Olney Dermatology says.
Luckily, there are some steps you can take to simultaneously keep your hands clean and free from cracking or breaking out into patches of eczema. First, Dr. Bourelly recommends that, when given the choice between sink washing and hand sanitizer, choose the sink and soap. “The soap you choose doesn’t have to be antibacterial, but if you elect to use one that is,” she notes, “there are a few in the market more moisturizing than others.
Of course, there will be times you do need to cleanse with hand sanitizer, and in those instances be prepared to up your moisturizing game. “Creams are better than lotions, and ointments work the best, but understandably might need to be reserved for bedtime use,” due to excessive greasiness, Dr. Bourelly says.
Here, five skin experts weigh in with their advice—and recommendations for favorite gentle hand lotions, sanitizers, and hand soaps—to help those with eczema and sensitive skin.Dr. Boakye says that the key to finding the right hand sanitizer for eczema-prone and sensitive skin is to look for those that have the right amount of ethyl alcohol, which is 75%, but “also has moisturizing properties such as essential oils.” A personal favorite of Dr.
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