Pop quiz: How many times have you washed your hands this year? (Doesn’t it feel like the answer is probably close to a million?) At first, all that frequent washing meant a lot of dry, scaly skin and ragged cuticles. But these past few months, L’Occitane hand care products have been a lifesaver.
L’Occitane (pronounced LOX-EE-TAHN) was born in the markets of Provence, where a twenty-three-year-old plant enthusiast named Olivier distilled and sold his own rosemary oil from a small truck. Eventually, he expanded his offerings to include soaps and creams, always drawing inspiration from the scents, ingredients, and natural beauty of the South of France.
Every one of their products is carefully considered, from the texture to the scent, to be both enjoyable and beneficial. Their hand soaps are super gentle on skin, while still effective at killing germs. My hands actually feel softer after I wash them.
With all the frequent washing, I’ve also made hand care a part of my nighttime ritual. I start with Shea Nourishing Nail and Cuticle Oil, which you just brush on and massage for a few seconds. I top it off with Shea Butter Hand Cream, which I swear by. It’s made with 20% organic shea butter, honey, almond extracts, and coconut oil, which is just as rich and creamy as it sounds. Their products smell amazing, and I love waking up to hands that feel soft and moisturized.
Today, L’Occitane is giving one lucky reader a $250 gift card AND a hand care gift set ($100 value), including a shea butter hand cream, cuticle oil, liquid hand soap, and hand scrub. To enter, please visit L’Occitane and leave a comment below telling us which product you’re most excited to try. A winner will be chosen tomorrow at random. Good luck! Update: The winner has been chosen and notified. Thanks for playing!
Plus, great news for all readers: L’Occitane is offering 10% off using code COJ10, good through Saturday, 10/17. Thank you so much!
I would love to try the overnight reset serum! I always wake up feeling like oh my let’s replenish this face
The Shea Nourishing Nail & Cuticle Oil sounds like a dream! Just what the self-care doctor ordered :)
I’d love to try the Shea Nourishing Nail and Cuticle Oil!
Without question, I’d like to try their Shea hand cream! I’m always on the search, and haven’t found the ‘just rights cream yet.
I know the contest is over, but I wanted to share that L’Occitane was the first present my now husband ever bought me. It was our first Valentine’s Day and I had never used the brand. I squeezed out every drop of lotion (and since bought more). It’s a cherished brand in my house. :)
that’s so sweet!
Their shea hand cream is one of the best!
I LOVE their hand cream! I love the original shea butter fragrance but the orchid and neroli is so dreamy when I want to feel more feminine. I’ve been eyeing the cuticle oil – I would try that!
I am completely devoted to their shea butter products — hand cream, body butter, and bar soap!
Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm! And everyone else‘s comments are getting me Intrigued about the cuticle oil as well
Shea butter intensive hand balm sounds heavenly.
How serendipitous! I just started reading Trail of Crumbs, a memoir by Kim Sunée in which Olivier is a central figure. I love visiting L’Occitane shops in airports and sampling all the luscious creams and fragrances. My mom loved the scent of Terre de Lumière. And I’m interested in trying the Peony Perfecting Essence.
Anything with the verbena scent is fabulous is my book.
The shea butter hand cream sounds fabulous!
The cuticle oil would be a dream right now!
Shea buttercream is a dream!
Nail and cuticle oil. Or hand cream
The 3-in-1 multi lip balm! Dry lips are as bad as dry hands in the winter!
Shea butter cream
The Terre de Lumiere Balm sounds delightful!
I would love to try the L’Occitane Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm because my hands get so dry in the Fall and Winter that the crack, bleed, and throb in pain, so I really need something effective.
Most excited to try the hand care gift set, those products sound amazing!
Oh my gosh! Anything Shea butter please! And their body butter has been on my wish list for awhile now!
I would love to try the shea butter hand cream!
I would love to try the lavender liquid soap!
Nail and cuticle oil!
Shea Nourishing Nail & Cuticle Oil is exactly what I need!
the lavender liquid soap
Love their Shea Butter Hand Cream! With washing hands and toddler hands all day, hand cream is an essential…
Shea Butter intensive hand balm would save my in person teaching over sanitized and washed hands. Definitely need to pick this up soon!
I would love to try one of the shea butter gentle soaps in these COVID hand washy times!!
Shea Nourishing Nail & Cuticle Oil sounds something I need during these more drying months~
Shea butter hand cream!
Shea butter hand cream for sure – looking for something that won’t leave my hands greasy!
I’ve been a fan of the Shea butter hand cream for awhile but The cuticle oil is also what I need to tru
Shea Butter Hand Cream for sure! My poor hands get so chapped every winter, and with all the extra hand washing, a good hand cream is necesary this winter.
With a new baby and constant hand washing, I’d love to try the gentle hand wash.
Love their products for winter. The almond scented products smell delicious.
I would choose Shea Nourishing Nail & Cuticle Oil to help my brittle nails.
Thanks and happy Friday!
Shea milk solidarity soap!
aaahhh, my hands are ALREADY starting to crack from washing them so much and it’s only october! I love their original hand cream and everything they make in the lemon verbena scent!
Shea butter intensive hand cream. My hands are always bad, and I think this winter will be worse!
The Shea Butter hand cream would be amazing to keep in my bag for all of my post- hand washing/ sanitizing!
Shea Hands & Body Lavender Liquid Soap sounds so refreshing! I must try it!
Shea butter hand cream please!!!
cherry blossom hand cream sounds so good!
I’m excited to try the cuticle oil or the intensive hand balm. In the winter, I usually have to superglue my fingers because they are so dry they crack. I definitely need to try these out!
Big fan of the hand soaps!
Shea butter hand cream!
The intensice hand balm for sure! My hands are suffering..
I love the hand cream and would like to try the cuticle oil.
I would love to try the cuticle oil. And the lavender hand cream, which I already know I love. Thanks!
Honey Harvest Hand Cream!
The liquid hand soap sounds incredible. To be even softer than before you wash your hands, what magic!
Would love to try the Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm!
cuticle oil, please!
so much hand washing this year! the shea butter intensive hand balm sounds amazing.
I have used the regular hand cream and love it. I’d really like to try the “intensive” hand cream for the winter!
Give me all of the Cherry Blossom Hand Cream please!!! I can’t imagine a more beautiful scent that would cheer me up in the middle of winter…. it snowed a bit here in Minnesota this morning : }
STAY SAFE & WELL ALL!
In addition to their hand care products, I would be interested to try a serum from their skincare line. x
The verbena hand soap for sure.
I want the lavendar hand cream by my kitchen sink but I have to have a travel tube of the Shea butter in my bag all winter!
I love their almond oil bath soap for the winter months, when my skin is dry and I’m craving some extra TLC. I always neglect my cuticles, so would be interested in trying the cuticle oil!
would love the cuticle oil!
the shea butter body lotion sounds lovely!!!
I’d like to try L’Occitan Eau De Toilette. It will surely take me back to Port Grimaud without actually having to step foot on an airplane. Merci & salut! xx
Ooh, am I ever a sucker for shea butter hand cream! The best, particularly this time of year.
I love L’Occitane but haven’t tried the cuticle oil. That would be a lifesaver right now. :)
Their hand cream is great!
I love their products! I’ve used their shea butter hand lotion for years but I’ve never tried the cuticle oil. With all the hand washing my hands need all the help they can get.
Ooh shea butter intensive hand balm sounds right up my alley!
Would love to try the green tea hand cream!
Would love to try the cuticle oil – have never tried one and my hands definitely need all the care they can get, especially as we near the colder months.
SOS, CUTICLE OIL!
Definitely the Shea Hands & Body Lavender liquid soap! I love the idea of my hands feeling more moisturized after washing…..
Their shea butter hand cream is fantastic!
Thank you for including the pronunciation! I’ve said it wrong in my head for 10+ yrs. haha
I’d be all over that cuticle oil!
The shea butter honey harvest hand cream sounds luxurious!
Cuticle Oil!
I’d love to try their hand soaps!
I’d love to try out one of their soaps!
Shea butter hand cream!
I use their men’s deodorant too because the scent is wonderful.
The Shea and lavender hand soap!
Whenever I see a L’Occitane (thank you for the pronounciation!) store in a mall – I always sample the Shea Butter Hand Cream because it’s so divine!
The shea baby balm!
The shea butter cream is the absolute best, i’ve been using it for my super dry, crack-prone hands for several years. And when i gave it as a gift to my co-workers? Everyone gushed. But now i’m super excited to try the nail and cuticle oil – i can’t believe i missed that before!
That nail & cuticle oil would be amazing considering how much hand washing I’m doing. Not to mention it’s been a lifetime since I had a manicure!
Anything lavender!
Used to love their products, but they aren’t cruelty free :(
I think I would try the Shea intensive balm – my hands definitely need it!
Oh my gosh cuticle oil is exactly what I need for these dry winters, why have I never herd of this before?!
would be lovely to try a cuticle oil – feels so fancy i’ve never purchased one before! i would love to gift this to my partner.
I need the cuticle oil, badly!
Currently, with the state my hands are in (cracking, dry, red), it seems like I’d really benefit from their Shea Butter Intensive Cream! Thank you and take care!
Any of the hand creams sound lovely! Thank you!
I would love to try the cuticle oil. Thanks for the giveaway.
Ooooh….I’d lurve to try SHEA BUTTER INTENSIVE HAND BALM the most, but evvvverything looks good! 😍
I have a feeling I won’t be in the running, because this is probably another USA-centic competition, but with the state of my life at the moment, I’ll try to win anything!
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Rusty 🤞
The very sound of lavender hand cream sends me! My hand-sanitized hands are so thirsty!
Love their hand cream! :)
The lemon verbena line always reminds me of my wedding :) would love to get some of that, as well as explore new lines!
Oh, love all the L’Occitane products. Wonderfully gentle but effective. The nail and cuticle oil would be most appreciated by my hands right now!
From the dry weather and all the hand washing, I think I’m in dire need of some Shea Butter Intensive Hand Balm.
Hand soap that doesn’t *dry out* my hands sounds like magic these days!
I would love to try the Lavender Hand and Body Soap
I’d like to try their cuticle oil!
My hands are cracking dry. I would love to try Shea Butter Hand Cream!
I love their shea butter hand creams!
cuticle oil! Need it badly right now! Love all their products.
I would love to try the Shea Butter Hand Cream!! Love you Cup of Jo!
I use quite a few L’Occitane products . The 3-in-1 Micellar Water is amazing ,and smells so lovely .The Almond Shower Oil has gotten rid of bumps on my legs I’ve had for years . And one of the company’s biggest assets is Tabatha who works at the Aventura Mall location here in Miami . She even texts me to see how my purchases are,and I can order from her via text and have free delivery if I like . Their products are worth every penny ! They have a very loyal customer . Tip:always stock up when they offer a gift with purchase ,so you can try new items .
i would love their advent calendar to try everything!!
Shea Hands & Body Verbena Liquid Soap!
I’ve sworn by their hand cream for years, but I’ve never tried the soap or cuticle oil and now I need to!
I love their hand cream! It’s a life saver in the winter and with all this hand washing!
my nails are in need of that cuticle oil and I would also love the soaps! thank you :)
The Cherry Blossom Collection looks really fun! Thanks!
I’d love to try any of the extra gentle soaps.
The Almond shower oil
The cuticle oil! :)
I would love to try the Shea Nourishing Nail and Cuticle Oil, I already use their lemon oil body wash and love it….
the shea butter intensive hand cream sounds perfect for winter!
Lavender hand cream essential home & travel please and thank you !
Cheers!
Love the shea butter hand cream! Would love to try the foot cream, too.
I’m most excited to try the shea butter hand cream! I have loved L’Occitane products for the longest time so I know this one won’t disappoint. Definitely going to be needing it as the weather gets colder (hasn’t happened yet for california but wishful thinking lol).
I had the regular ol’ shea butter hand cream a million years ago and would love to try it again!
The Shea Hands & Body Verbena Liquid Soap is calling my name! My hands are also a mess from the constant hand washing and use of gel sanitizer. Ugh, my cuticles! In any case, using a moisturizing liquid soap (that I imagine smells divine) would be wonderful!
I love all of their products, but am most excited about the hand cream since I live in Minnesota!
The cuticle oil looks amazing!! I constantly have peeling cuticles, and need to put something on them!! This giveaway is too sweet!! Thanks for hosting it :)
I have used their products before and absolutely love them. The cherry blossom hand cream is a product I have never seen before! I would love to experience that wonderful new fragrance. Looking at their products makes me want to slather some lotion on my dry hands right now!
shea butter hand cream ,
I need the Shea nail and cuticle Cream in my desert home!
My nails are suffering from the dry air in Arizona. I would love to try the cuticle cream.
Shea Butter Hand Cream (especially since I’m doing more dishes & can’t get manicures right now!)
Nail and cuticle oil!
This is my favorite brand! I have terrible eczema and this is the only cream that heals my hands <3. I, of course, would pick the shea butter hand cream! It would help my skin from splitting.
I’ve never tried their shea butter hand cream, but it’s such a loved product that I think I need to! My hands get so dry in the winter, so it would be good for me to think about in advance.
I am intrigued by the shea hibiscus solidarity balm.
I love l’Occitane products. I don’t use parfums but I love mosturizers and they used to have a Green tea and Bergamot one that had become my signature scent. Unfortunately a few years ago it got discontinued. When I travelled in Europe a couple of years ago I went in all the Occitane shops to look for it, until I found two last bottles in a duty free at Venice’s airport. Since then I’ve been saving them for special occasions.
And now I just found out that they have a new Green Tea edition!!! I am thrilled to try it!!!
I would most like to try their Immortelle Overnight Reset Oil-in-Serum. I’ve heard so many good things about L’Occitane.
I’ve always wanted to try their Shea butter hand cream!
My cuticles are always a mess. I’d love to try the cuticle oil.
My 11 year old grand daughter is prone to getting hang nails, I’d like to get her the Shea Nourishing Nail & Cuticle Oil to try. Thanks for the chance to win this give a way!
I love their Terre De Lumiere Warm & Sophisticated fragrance!
That cuticle oil! My nails are a hot mess from the hand washing and lack of professional nail help.
For years I’ve loved the almond milk concentrate for the body. It’s just divine!
I would get a few of the shea butter hand creams to share with family and friends this holiday season!
I’d love to try the cherry blossom hand cream!
She’s butter hand cream looks amazing!!! L’Occitane has the most beautiful and luxurious products.
Yes! With the change in season and the continuous hand washing – my hands need this. I would love to have the Shea Butter hand cream and the cuticle oil.
I’ve always wanted to try their shea hand cream, is it boring to pick that? I’d also love to try that shea cuticle oil as well, since my nails get so raggedy. Fingers crossed!
From the description of their products ALL look like they wold be heaven for my dry hands! Especially the hand cream
Omg the Cherry Blossom Hand Cream sounds amazing!
My hands are always so dry now and my poor cuticles are in horrible shape.
I have to try the Shea Nourishing Nail and Cuticle Oil!