Essence Honey Care Moisturizing & Caring Hand Cream ($3.99) is a new honey hand cream hanging out on my desk on the moment. You might recall my review of Essence Honey Care Smoothing Nail & Cuticle Scrub last month and I mentioned how I’d love to see more products scented like this. Much to my delight there’s a cheap as chips hand cream that’s a perfect companion to the scrub which I’m on my second tube of.

I realized that my hand cream addiction could be as potentially OCD as my lip balm one. I mean, I have them everywhere. On my desk, my vanity, my night table, hell, I even have them in my kitchen. I’m chronically applying hand cream. Oh well, I guess there are much worst things I could be addicted to right" Now, I’m not much of a honey person. I don’t like the floral notes of honey, it’s not really my thing unless it’s in my cup of tea or on a slice of bread with butter. But I don’t really aim to smell like it because I don’t really like the way it smells. But Essence manages to capture a sweet honeycomb-like scent in this hand cream (as well as the scrub) that’s rather delightful. It’s one of the things I like most about this little hand cream.
Mind you, the scent is great but the formula is no slacker. This is a water-based formula that’s quite thick which contains coconut oil. It’s a fairly emollient texture which does leave hands slightly greasy afte...