Antonia Philp was working as a paediatric nurse when, in 2010, she was forced to take a fortnight off because of her red, cracked and bleeding hands. “It was from the constant hand washing and sanitising required to keep our patients safe,” she explains.
Philp tried “countless hand creams — everything in Boots, all the samples from occupational health — to sort them out, but got nowhere.” The heavy medical ones took time to sink in, and on hospital shifts she had no time to wait. “I needed something super-effective but also lightweight that provided a long-lasting effect — so my husband and I started to research the problem to understand what could be done.”
