La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream.

Body & Tan

About this product

A hand cream from La Roche-Posay's Cicaplast line, designed to moisturize and protect dry, rough or irritated hands.

Full ingredients

Aqua/Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Niacinamide, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter/Shea Butter, Dimethicone, PEG/PPG-18/18 Dimethicone, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Sodium Polyacrylate, Caprylyl Glycol, Citric Acid, Tocopherol, Phenoxyethanol

Guru Score

85%

Yay

5 experts · Moderate agreement

What the gurus are saying

Typing all day or washing your hands every hour? This hand cream earns praise for sinking in fast without a sticky, greasy film, even though the texture reads balmy and occlusive, a thicker feel that seals moisture in. Gurus credit its dimethicone base, glycerin and niacinamide for very dry, flaky hands, and also like it for eczema patches and after laser treatments.

Synthesized from 5 expert reviews · most recent take January 2025

What they liked

Light texture suitable for daily use
Instant moisturising effect on application

What they flagged

Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

Best for

Dry skin Sensitive skin

Type

Body & TanCream

Key actives

NiacinamideVitamin E

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

Flaky dry patches2 experts

“Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments.”

No BS Beauty, watch at 4:02

Eczema1 expert

“Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments.”

No BS Beauty, watch at 4:02

Skin recovering after a procedure1 expert

“Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments.”

No BS Beauty, watch at 4:02

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Yay

"The La Roche-Posay Cicaplast has a hand cream as well that is excellent. It's likewise dimethicone based. These are great options for throughout the day because you don't want something too greasy that's going to make it difficult for you to do whatever it is that you need to do."

All 3 takes from Dr Dray

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"L'Oreal Posay also has a hand cream that's very similar that is in their Cicaplast line that I also really like, but the reason I like this is that it is really fast absorbing. It doesn't leave a sticky residue. It's really nice for like desk work when you're typing and stuff, you don't want greasy residue, or if you have to wash your hands frequently at work and you're like I can't handle something oily on my hands all the time, it's a great option."

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"La Roche-Posay also makes a very similar hand cream. This type of formula does limit penetration of irritants in the skin, does help with retaining moisture in the skin, but is not as greasy after all the blisters have kind of closed up and healed up."

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Sincerely Miss Ash

196k subs

✓Yay

"This is a hand cream that actually performs especially when your hands are very dry and flaky. [...] I like this one because it contains 30% glycerin and 4% niacinamide. Niacinamide is great for moisture loss, it really helps to keep that moisture in the skin, great for dryness, but also if you have discoloration on the tops of your hands, niacinamide can help to brighten that up. But the glycerin in here is really going to repair your hands and it does a very good job."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

✓Yay

"I really liked it. [...] The cream is definitely a little bit thicker and things like that but it feels super nice on your skin. [...] Lovely texture, a little goes a long way, sets to a kind of radiant natural finish that's really not that sticky. Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments. I've only had a couple laser treatments for my aesthetician but the next one I'm, I'm glad I remembered I had this."

Kelly Driscoll

91k subs

✓Yay

"This is an interesting one because the texture it's more balmy and ointment-like than the lotion and cream that I just mentioned. It has a little bit more of an almost like a gel kind of balmy ointment texture and it's very occlusive and occlusivity is a really great quality to find in your hand products because it really helps to hug and seal everything in."

Minkology 101 & Skincare

224k subs

✓Yay

"It is light. [...] So far I like how I feel. I [...] could see me using this every day. [...] I like it. If I had to rate it so far off my first initial use I'm going to give it [...] an eight. You can feel that instant that they're talking about so they're not tricking you, they didn't trick me, it was instant. So I like it. I like it. I put this on my recommendation list."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream?

A hand cream from La Roche-Posay's Cicaplast line, designed to moisturize and protect dry, rough or irritated hands.

Is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream worth it?

Yes. All 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 85%.

What is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream's Guru Score?

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream holds a Guru Score of 85%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.

Who is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream best for?

La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream is generally suited to dry skin and sensitive skin.

What is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream good for, according to the experts?

In their reviews, experts say La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream is good for flaky dry patches (2 experts), eczema (1 expert) and skin recovering after a procedure (1 expert).

Is La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream good for flaky dry patches?

2 experts who reviewed La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Hand Cream say it is. No BS Beauty put it this way: “Great for dry patches, dry skin, eczema areas, and after laser treatments.”