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Ageing Hands: Why the Backs of the Hands Look Older Than the Face and What Helps
Hands are washed twenty times a day and never wear sunscreen. Why they look thin and lined, and the two habits that change the look.
What it looks like
Thin skin that shows the veins and tendons, fine lines across the knuckles, dryness that looks papery, and sun marks that were not there ten years ago.
What tends to be behind the look
Constant washing strips the surface. Sun hits the backs of the hands every time you drive or walk. Nobody moisturises them at night. The skin there is thin to begin with.
What helps the look
Hand cream after washing, every time, from a tube kept by the sink. Sunscreen on the backs of the hands when you put it on your face. A hydrating serum at night, then a rich cream, then sleep.
What does not
Hand creams with fragrance high on the list, which sting on washed skin. Expecting a face product to be worth using on hands and never doing it.
Where a PDRN roller serum fits
After the face, roll what is left in the head over the backs of the hands. It takes ten seconds and costs nothing extra. Hydrated hand skin looks plumper and shows the veins less by morning, and the roller is the reason it happens at all rather than being the step you skip.
A routine that takes a minute
- Wash hands, pat dry.
- Roll the serum over the backs of both hands after the face.
- A rich hand cream over the top.
- Sunscreen on the hands with the face every morning.
Where Silka fits
Silka is a PDRN serum with a microneedle roller head on the bottle, made and shipped from New Zealand. The roller is the most practical way we know to put PDRN on every night: the head spreads the serum evenly across face and neck, nothing is left behind in your palm, and the whole routine takes about a minute, which is the part that makes a habit last.