Gardener's Tools for Skin Care
By July, gardener's hands and nails are showing signs of doing "just one more thing" without gloves. Fingers and wrists are a little grumpy in the morning from repetitive weed-pulling action. Arms and calves are spotted with poison ivy and bug bites. What are your favorite products for combating gardener wear? I confess to using Deep Woods or Backwoods strength bug bite protection. I know I'm supposed to use something more health-food- store-ish but haven't found anything effective enough. Do you know a product that works as well? The Thymes sent me a sample of their deep-cleansing hand scrub and replenishing hand cream and they are wonderful. Their site calls the scent "clipped grass, aromatic parsley, cool watercress, dewy moss and a pinch of pink peppercorn." That sounds like the wine descriptions of a hint of this and that which I can never taste - but the cream has a pleasing, soft, clean scent. The hand scrub is refined enough to make my hands l...