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Great Elm's handcreams are amazingly effective, full of herbal goodness, are highly absorbent AND smell gorgeous. Nothing better!

Handcream is a necessity for most of us - but it's hard to find something that works. Great Elm has solved your problem!

Our handcreams are also very intensive and nutritional - so only a little is needed to do the job.

Made by hand at our Somerset workshop with organic oils and traditional herbs from an English country garden.

Buy it for yourself, or your favourite friend, or aunt, or mother, or sister ... anyone in fact who deserves the best!

Buy the hand cream on its own - either Geranium & Apricot OR Marjoram & Almond OR in a charmingly useful giftpack with a hand massager.

Made from:

Geranium & Apricot Intensive Handcream: It smells delicious, sinks in easily, is smooth and non-greasy. Full of nutritious, skin-friendly apricot kernel and rapeseed oils, soothing honey and juniper hydrosol, this hand cream is a serious contender for best ever. Lavender and rose geranium provide an unbeatable aroma. This is made in small batches, without any skin-harming nasties, with herbs from our garden.

We use nothing but the most delicious rose geranium essential oil to give it a beautiful aroma, but geranium does so much more too: helps regenerate skin cells, and keep you safe from little infections so easily picked up when your hands are hard at work, good at stopping blood flow, and of course it is a wonderful toner.

Marjoram & Almond Nutritious Handcream

This is a very useful, fresh herb cream that actually works: it softens and feeds the skin, and has some useful healing herbs added. It absorbs easily, without leaving any oiliness. The fresh aromas of marjoram, lavender and rosemary have been added to the highly nutritious emollient oil of sweet almonds along with a lot of useful moisture in the form of a lemon balm infusion and hydrosols of marjoram and juniper. There is even a touch of honey and beeswax to bring some extra vitamins and minerals and keep moisture locked into the skin. Juniper, rosemary, marjoram and lavender all have cleansing, clearing, antiseptic properties. Juniper is also useful in reducing bumps and small swellings.

INGREDIENTS: Melissa officinalis (lemon balm)* infused in aqua (water), hydrosols of Oreganum majorana (marjoram) and Juniperus communis (juniper) prunus dulcis (sweet almond) oil honey cera alba (beeswax) cetostearyl alcohol and stearic acid (plant-based emulsifying waxes) Naticide (plant-derived bacterial inhibitor) essential oils of Oreganum majorana (marjoram)* and Lavendula augustifolia (lavender)*, Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary)*, which include geraniol, limonene, linalool. *certified organic

INGREDIENTS: Origanum majorana( marjoram) and Juniperis communis (juniper) hydrosols Brassica napus (rapeseed) oil (Ribes nigrum) blackcurrant seed oil * (Prunus armeniaca) apricot kernel oil*, honey* cera alba (beeswax)* stearic acid emulsifier 'parfum' Naticide (plant-derived bacterial inhibitor) Pelargonium graveolens (rose geranium) * and Lavendula augustifolia (lavender)* essential oils which contain linalool.*certified organic

'These are powerfully good hand creams, probably the best I've ever found. It's concentrated goodness so you don't need much. It really makes you realise the benefits of using a totally natural product and how amazingly effective herbs can be,' Jane Archer, nurse. Godalming.

SUITS: any skin type. METHOD: massage into clean, dry, overworked hands as often as necessary.

STORAGE: cool, dark, dry conditions. USE: within 90 days of opening.

AS WITH ALL OUR PHYSICKS (OR ANY OTHER SKIN CARE PRODUCT) IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO TRY AN UNFAMILIAR PRODUCT ON A SMALL PATCH OF SKIN, AND LEAVE IT FOR 24 HOURS, BEFORE USING ON A LARGER AREA.

Physick: from the Greek meaning ‘the use and knowledge of nature’.

Hand massager: light wood circle encompassing moveable ball.

Dimensions:

50ml glass jar, aluminium lid. GIFTPACK includes 50ml jar of handcream + 'planet' massager, wood, approx cm diameter