Bulldog Original Hand Cream

Hand cream – so many crude jokes are running through my head right now that as I sit here writing about Bulldog Original Hand Cream I find myself chuckling away like Beavis & Butthead. No, there most definitely will not be any reference to the ‘relief’ that this offers and certainly no mention of tissues (after this one obviously).

The very good people at Bulldog sent me this along with a number of gift sets back in late 2015 – if you haven’t seen the range of gift sets and what I thought of the products you can do so here (if you so wish).

The 75ml tube was sat tucked away in the massive box I have for products to try out until early February when I finally succumbed to the freezing weather. My hands had become very dry and they had a look not too dissimilar to a prune - to be blunt, they looked bloody awful.

A 75ml tube of the hand cream will set you back just £5 (yeah, it's only a fiver) and can be bought direct from Bulldog here.

This is what they say about it in the marketing blurb (which I always love to read just to see how long it takes for me to roll my eyes):

'On the one hand Original Hand Cream and on the other hand Original Hand Cream. How original. Packed with 8 essential oils, glycerine, jojoba, and vitamin E to moisturise dry hands. Be loyal to your skin. Our products never contain artificial colours, synthetic fragrances, or ingredients from animal sources. Bulldog is man’s best friend.'

I hadn’t used a hand cream for years (about fifteen to be precise) – excited to try is probably pushing the bounds of reality but I was curious to see what this could do, after all, it couldn’t make my hands look any worse.

First things first (duh, obviously), the texture is quite strange, it has a thicker consistency than I expected and while it spreads really easily I found it a touch greasy which made me slightly nervous about whether it would be absorbed properly or whether it would leave residue that could potentially mark my clothing. These fears were completely unfounded as the cream was absorbed in super quick time. After the first application I actually applied even more and within seconds this to had been completely absorbed. Hmmm, my hands really did need some hydration!

Within two to three minutes I couldn’t feel the greasy texture at all and while there was no miraculous rejuvenation of the skin immediately I could over the course of a week start to notice subtle differences after using it first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

They say it’s packed with essential oils, jojoba and vitamin E. I’m no scientist, but the effects after a couple of weeks was amazing. After four weeks it has transformed the way my hands look. I just wish I had taken ‘before’ pictures to show the state of my hands prior to using the hand cream, as I genuinely believe that they look in much better shape both visually and to the touch.

Smaller than the vats of Norwegian hand cream that I used to use this has lasted for well over four weeks and is only now getting to the point where I’ll have to think about replacing it. In the time that I have been using this I’ve found that my hands look healthier – no they are not doing star jumps, but to the touch my hands feel softer and smoother, more hydrated and some of the dodgy fine lines that had started to appear on the back of my hand have gone – rejoice, just rejoice.

This has been something of a revelation for my hands – all I need to do now is stop biting my nails and I can stop hiding my claws away from the general public!

They say that Bulldog products are mans best friend, and I’ve seen nothing to dispute this at all. Nice work people, nice work. At only £5 I would recommend a tube for every bloke out there - you'll like the subtle jojoba fragrance but love the results.

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See, I managed to get through without any other crude references! Win!

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Dirty Works Coconut Caress Body Scrub

Get the puns out the way early, that would be sensible advice had I not been writing about Dirty Works Coconut Caress Body Scrub - seriously, just drafting this resulted in lots of sounds reminiscent of an episode of Beavis & Butthead.

So, in the interests of moving on and getting these out of the way I will not be using phrases such as ‘Coconut Caress is Coco-nuts‘, ‘I’m a dirty boy’, ’getting down and dirty’ or ‘I’m a little scrubber’ from now on - promise.

To fully appreciate my experience you really need to know how I started using this - picture a man clinging to consciousness trying to get showered before work. Eyes haven’t fully opened and support being provided by both arms propping me up. 

I actually went to grab a different body wash but picked this up by accident. 

So, what do they say about it?

Clean up your act with this feel good scrub to leave you revived, recharged and ready to go!

Change your ways and buff yourself to innocence! With Walnut shell granules to help brush roughness away and Coconut Oil to condition and moisturise.

As soon as you step under the shower and squeeze the scrub out its like being smashed in the face with a bag of coconuts - wow, that coconut oil is strong! Really strong. It also requires far too much effort to squeeze it out as the scrub is really thick in texture.

I’m not normally a big fan of coconut but with this it is much sweeter on the nose. Yes, I can just sit here sniffing the tube. Sad, very sad but true.

Once I’d flexed my muscles and squeezed enough out it felt thick and gooey in my hand, no signs of any walnut shell granules. With Ted’s Grooming Room Step 01 Face Scrub I found that as soon as I put it on my hands I could feel the micro-beads. With Coconut Caress I had to rub this between my palms and as it spreads boy does the abrasion follow.

As I started to rub this over my body the walnut shell granules gently dug into my skin but in a way that you kind of knew that it was removing every inch of dead or dry skin from my torso. The scrub doesn’t lather but it is so smooth you can actually see the granules as they become more and more abrasive - too much pressure and you’ll find yourself losing hairs off your arms (I jest).

The granules don’t disintegrate like other products so until they are washed off you can continue to rub them over your torso which means you don’t need that much of this for a full upper torso wash and exfoliation.

After stepping out of the shower and drying, my skin did have a subtle glow to it and was extremely smooth to the touch. It was 100% clear to me on the day of using and still the day after that my skin had taken a pasting and had been treated to some TLC.

The coconut fragrance while strong when washing doesn’t stay that way. You can detect hints of the coconut oil for a few hours on the skin after using. Personally I don’t use this on my face as it does interfere with how my aftershave smells but for washing my torso - ’pits and body this is perfect. Not a hint of the dreaded BO after washing using this and with the lovely results I can’t help but recommend this to people who want a bloody good exfoliating body scrub.

Do I feel innocent after using this? Well no, but I also don’t feel like I’ve been robbed as 200 ml costs just a £1 if you shop around which represents exceptional value for money.

Do I feel revived and recharged? Well it certainly wakes you up, but recharged? That's just a claim too far. Even so, this has far too many positives to let the mindless marketing blurb stand in the way of top marks from me.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

One question that will nag away at me - why use walnut shell granules and why not coconut husk?

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