If you have dry hands it may be due to any number of reasons. Activities such as gardening or the climate in which you live can all contribute to dry, scaly skin. If you're looking for a hand soap that will add moisture but still provide imporant antibacterial properties, try making your own. One of the writers of the Her Natural Beauty blog shows you just how easy it is.

Not only will this smell great (who doesn't love a fresh green apple scent?), but you'll also know the exact contents of the soap because you made it yourself. Harsh chemicals? Not in this all-natural hand wash!

A pet and plant lover like me always find time to spend play time with my dog and also do some gardening. These activities, however give my hand a rough time. Scratches on the hands from my dog's playful bites and dirty, dry hands from trimming plants and digging soil. I always use anti-bacterial soaps to clean my hands after. I though need something better for "hand therapy", so I then decided to make my own hand soap. I do not like bar soaps as they are hard and so slippery to use, and I think are more time consuming to make. I like the smell of fresh green apples, thus, I made Green Apples Liquid Hand Wash with anti-bacterial effect. Here's how to do your own Green Apple Antibacterial Hand Wash:

Ingredients
Two to three medium-sized green apples. (as soap base)
2 tablespoons Grapefruit juice - (as antibacterial additive)
2 cups water
2 teaspoons Eucalyptus oil (for fragrance)
2 Vitamin E capsules (as moisturizing additive)
1 teaspoon Glycerine
One recycled hand wash bottle/dispenser

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