Tips on How to Get Younger-Looking Hands

Despite the focus we put on delaying or reducing signs of aging, many of us neglect the two most visible and age-sensitive areas on our bodies like our arms and hands.

You must be wondering if there are ways to make your aging hands and arms look younger. If so, how can you embark on this skincare routine? Limiting your anti-aging skincare products to your face is a common oversight we urge you to rethink. Your hands and arms deserve the same attention you give to your face, and with just a few tweaks, incorporating youthful practices for these areas is an easy addition to your daily skincare routine.

Don't wait until you develop wrinkles on your hands and arms before you decide to take action. Start applying anti-aging products for healthier and younger-looking skin.

How to have younger-looking hands and arms

It isn’t difficult to achieve younger-looking skin on the hands and arms. The reason? The exact same types of anti-aging products and targeted skin replenishing ingredients that work for your face and neck will also work beautifully on your hands and arms too!

Although there are some differences between the skin on your face and the skin on your body, there’s no evidence showing that those areas require different ingredients to keep your skin looking and feeling younger. What contributes to signs of aging are the same for your hands and arms as they are for your face. So, there’s just no excuse for neglecting these parts of your body.

The basic concepts of skincare we talk about all the time (gentle cleansing, non-abrasive exfoliation, sun protection, using products loaded with antioxidants, and skin-restoring ingredients, along with a product containing skin-brightening ingredients) apply perfectly for your hands and arms. Now, that’s how you make wrinkled hands look younger!

Essential steps for beautiful hands and arms

How you can see improvements is simple. To keep your aging hands and arms looking healthy and youthful, you must make the effort to be just as consistent in taking care of those areas as you are with your facial skincare routine. Following these steps is the key to unlocking the youthful potential of your hands and arms and maintaining the results of looking younger.

• Avoid washing your hands with bar soap or drying cleansers. As much as possible, only wash your hands with a gentle water-soluble cleanser or moisturizing body wash, as most bar soaps are known to strip the natural oils from the skin. Being gentle with your hands is critical to keeping the surface strong, supple, and smooth. Apply a moisturizing lotion or anti-aging hand cream after washing your hands to lock in hydration.
• Non-abrasive, gentle exfoliation is important for your hands and arms, too. Removing built-up dead surface skin will reveal the radiant, healthy skin hiding beneath. Paula’s trick is to take the cotton pad she uses on her face with our leave-on SKIN PERFECTING 2% BHA Lotion Exfoliant and apply the remaining amount to her hands and arms. This gentle but extremely effective exfoliant will help you shed dead skin cells to visibly improve rough skin, to achieve that younger-looking skin. It's even suitable for those with keratosis pilaris (KP)-prone skin.
• If uneven tone on the hands and arms is a concern, incorporate a niacinamide body serum into your post-shower routine. Niacinamide, when in concentrations of 5% or above, works to tackle pre-existing pigmentation, as well as prevent it from forming by blocking key pathways that excess melanin follows. Our targeted 5% Niacinamide Body Serum can improve the look of many types of hyper-pigmentation that cause uneven tone including darkened spots from sun damage, post-breakout marks, and discolourations from past injuries.
• Twice daily or as needed, apply a rich, emollient skin-protecting moisturizer that replenishes vital lipids, antioxidants, and hydrating ingredients to help maintain your skin’s natural defences against environmental damage. The Daily Replenishing Body Cream will immediately alleviate any dryness or tight feeling.
• Every morning after you’ve applied your cleanser, exfoliant, and moisturizer, you must liberally apply a water-resistant sunscreen with SPF 30 or greater. Don’t forget to reapply it as needed throughout the day. Just like for your face, this is the most crucial step to fighting early signs of aging. This habit will also help reduce the risk of skin cancer.

Hands do take a bit more effort

How often we wash or sanitise our hands impacts how we take care of them during daylight hours. As mentioned above, protecting skin from the sun with a water-resistant sunscreen rated SPF 30 or greater is vital, but every time you wash your hands, even if you’re using a water-resistant sunscreen, you’ll wash off some of that sunscreen. That's why reapplying sunscreen after you wash or sanitise your hands is critical, even if it's a pain. If you aren't diligent about reapplying sunscreen after handwashing, your hands can develop sun damage and have a weathered appearance, and all the other skincare steps won’t save them from the inevitable. You must take proper precautions today before your skin goes beyond repair.

Treatment options beyond skincare

When it comes to fighting signs of aging, there’s only so much that a good skincare routine can do to reverse visible damage. After a certain point, you may want to consider having cosmetic corrective procedures performed on your hands, the same types of procedures doctors commonly perform on the face. Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Joyce Park notes that “Dermatologists often perform laser, chemical peels, and injections of filler into the hands to create a more youthful look.” It’s important to balance out all the options for having the best skin of your life.

No matter which methods you use to make your hands and arms look younger, it all starts with great skincare, especially sun protection you use consistently, day in and day out. In addition to using anti-aging products, consume enough anti-aging foods and supplements to ensure your skin gets enough nutrients to better protect and maintain your overall skin’s health. As long as you're willing to commit to this, you may even be able to skip any further, pricey intervention down the road! Keep track of these tips and achieve younger-looking hands and arms in no time.

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References for this information

• Aesthetic Surgery Journal, May 2021, pages NP472–NP483
• Experimental Dermatology, February 2019, Supplement 1, pages 15-22; and October 2018, ePublication
• Clinical, Cosmetic, and Investigational Dermatology, August 2015, pages 455–461