Best Moisturizing Hand Creams & Lotions to Keep Your Dry Hands Happy

Why are my hands so dry? How should I care for my dry cracked hands in winter?... If you're facing similar questions with your rescue-needed dry hands, you've come to the right place. Winter time means it's officially time to let our trusty hands feel nourished, appreciated, and cared for, and what better way to do that than with a moisturizing hand cream or hand mask to fix the dry-skin blue? From scented hand creams, anti-aging treatment, to hand mask, and dry hand lotion, we’re rounding up some of our team's most-favorite hand creams and hand lotions to keep your dry cracked hands happily moisturized throughout winter!


No. 1

Pyunkang Yul - Skin Barrier Professional Hand Lotion

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Best Hand Lotion for Dry Skin

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Pyunkang Yul's Skin Barrier Professional Hand Lotion is a highly sought-after hand cream packed with almonds, avocado oil and shea butter, which are some of the best ingredients for a hand cream. This Pyunkang Yul hand cream is a trusty option to moisturize extremely dry skin on hand and softens cuticles, thanks to the ultra-nourishing lotion texture. It also features allantoin and Vitamin B5 to leave your dry cracked hands with a smooth, radiant appearance.


No. 2

esfolio - Pure Skin Pure Snail Hand Cream

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Best Hand Cream with Snail Mucin

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: In the mood for nourishing snail mucin goodness? The cute packaging of the esfolio Pure Skin Pure Snail Hand Cream will definitely win you over. Made with snail secretion filtrate, this hydrating hand cream forms a protective shield over your dry skin to fight against the harsh, cold season and restore vitality to skin. The soft, blendable cream texture also proves that a little goes a long way!


No. 3

Dr. Jart+ - Ceramidin Hand Cream

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Best Hand Cream for Ceramide Care

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Dr. Jart+'s Ceramidin Hand Cream is the perfect antidote for dry cracked hands, thanks to the hypoallergenic, moisturizing ingredients. Packed with 5 types of hyaluronic acid + 5 highly moisturizing layers of ceramides, this Dr. Jart+ hand cream provides long-lasting moisturizing hand care to keep your rough skin at bay throughout the winter season.


No. 4

ILLIYOON - Ceramide Unscented Hand Cream

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Best Fragrance-Free Hand Cream

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: If you're struggling with sensitive, eczema-prone skin on your hands, the ILLIYOON Ceramide Unscented Hand Cream is all the soothing care your hands need. Combining Panax Ginseng Root Water + Ceramide, this hand cream boosts the skin's hydration and improves skin's barrier function while repaire, protects, and soothes dry hands with sensitive skin, thanks to the fragrance-free formula.


No. 5

Logically, Skin - Liftderm Hand Cream

Logically Skin Hand Cream

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Best Anti-Aging Hand Cream

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Concentrated with LiftDerm Complex, the innovative Korean brand Logically, Skin designed the Liftderm Hand Cream as an anti-wrinkle, anti-aging treatment to give the mature skin on your hand a youthful lift. Formulated with glycerin, niacinamide and adenosin, this Logically, Skin hand cream adds an antioxidant boost for more supple and moisturized skin on your dry cracked hands.


No. 6

The ORCHID Skin - Orchid Flower Hand Cream

The ORCHID Skin Orchid Flower Hand Cream

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Best Nutrient-Rich Hand Cream

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: For the minimalist-minded luxury connoisseurs, The ORCHID Skin Orchid Flower Hand Cream contains an ultra-nourishing blend of peach extract, orchid extract, sodium hyaluronate, and betaine to delive rich moisture for your dry hands. This hand cream also leaves a clean, supple, non-greasy finish to achieve a smooth complexion for any rough or uneven skin texture. This hand cream formula also comes with a devine peachy scent which makes it more alluring.


No. 7

FRUDIA - My Orchard Hand Cream

FRUDIA My Orchard Hand Cream

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Best Fruit-Scented Hand Cream

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: The K-Beauty brand that brought you the beloved Avocado Relief Essence Toner for summer is also set on owning your winter hand care routine. FRUDIA's My Orchard Hand Cream collection features 10 fruit-scented, high-nutrient hand creams with the brand's very own R Vita W™ technology, including mango, peach, cherry, acai berry, dragon fruit, citron, pineapple, grape fruit, passion fruit and coconut. For the holiday season, make sure to check out the FRUDIA My Orchard Hand Cream Gift Set (Analogue Seoul) for yourself and your loved ones!


No. 8

COSRX - Balancium Comfort Ceramide Hand Cream Intense

cosrx Balancium Comfort Ceramide Hand Cream Intense

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Best Hand Cream with Shea Butter

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Known for its barrier-strengthening formula, the COSRX Balancium Comfort Ceramide Hand Cream Intense is credited as a high-potency hand moisturizer that can treat painful cracks caused by extreme dry hands. This Korean hand relief treatment replenishes intense moisture with quick absorption, which works best with gentle massage to increase blood circulation. Not to mention its soft balmy cream texture that keeps your hands hydrated and supple all day long.


No. 9

SKINFOOD - Shea Butter Perfumed Hand Cream

SKINFOOD Shea Butter Perfumed Hand Cream

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Best Hand Cream with Perfumed Aroma

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Like the rest of SKINFOOD beauty collection, the SKINFOOD Shea Butter Perfumed Hand Cream lineup are as flavorful as can be, featuring fragranced scents like honey, vanilla, grape, jasmine, musk, mint, grapefruit, peach, rose, and pomegranate. With potent shea butter formulation, this SKINFOOD hand cream lineup help repair and restore damaged skin on dry cracked hands.


No. 10

THE FACE SHOP - Daily Perfumed Hand Cream

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Best Hand Cream that Smells Like Perfume

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Flaunting a natural orchid musk scent, the Daily Perfumed Hand Cream from THE FACE SHOP is an easy crowd-pleaser. Enriched with highly moisturising and brightening ingredients, this hand cream features nutrient-rich formula that penetrates quickly to ease chapped and dry cracked hands without any greasiness.


No. 11

FRUDIA - Re:proust Essential Blending Hand Cream (Dazzling)

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Best Hand Cream with Aroma Essential Oils

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: The hydrating formula in the FRUDIA Re:proust Essential Blending Hand Cream (Dazzling) is made of shea butter + 100% pure cold press moringa oil that work together to replenish and moisturize dry hands. Not to mention, this hand cream is scented with a delightful citrus essential fragrance blended with mandarin and rosemary oil.


No. 12

PESTLO - 90 Sec Elastox Hand Ampoule

PESTLO 90 Sec Elastox Hand Ampoule

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Best Hand Cream for Fine Lines and Wrinkles

STYLEVANA K-Beauty Review: Powered by the patented Liftonin®, the PESTLO 90 Sec Elastox Hand Ampoule contains a complex of 12 anti-aging peptides to provide elasticity, tightness, and firmness to the skin. It also harnesses 17 kinds of amino acid ingredients to effectively deliver moisture and nutrition to the skin.


Winter season means it's time to make hand creams your daily essentials. So pick up your favorite hand care treatments from all the coveted Korean brands and Japanese brands to let your dry cracked hands be a thing of the past! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get more instant product updates and skincare tips!