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Glossier is launching its first-ever hand cream next week, after two years of development.
The product, which is appropriately named "Hand Cream", will officially launch on April 23, but American health workers have been the first to trial the cream, which is the first of its kind from the purveyors of all things au naturel.
Taking to the company's blog, Glossier's founder and CEO Emily Weiss wrote, “We’re grateful to other businesses who are retooling their factories to make hand sanitiser (something we can’t do, since we don’t own our factories.)" Instead, the millennial-favourite has donated the first 10,000 Hand Creams in existence to American nurses and doctors to help exert some damage control on hands ravaged by intensive hand washing.
While the initiative is currently limited to the US, Glossier is hoping to roll out a similar scheme for healthcare workers in the UK soon. Over the past month, the company has been in touch with healthcare professionals and hospital teams and has donated thousands of products to NHS staff.
While not much is known about Hand Cream as of yet, Weiss assured Glossier fans that it's a "BEAUTIFUL formula, delivered in some pretty ingenious packaging."
While since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the virtues of hand hygiene have been extolled by governments across the world, nurses wash their hands a whopping 55 times a day on average.
The rest of us will be able to get our well-washed paws on Hand Cream on April 23, when it will officially launch on Glossier's website.
