Why My Hands Still Felt Dry in Humid Singapore—and the Hand Care I Switched To

“Singapore is already so hot and humid… so why do my hands still feel dry?”

I used to wonder about this all the time.

I spend most of my day in an air-conditioned office, and I wash my hands again and again throughout the day.

Before I knew it, my hands would feel dry and rough.

But because Singapore is already hot and humid, I really didn’t like using heavy, sticky hand creams.

Whenever I applied one and picked up my phone, I would leave greasy fingerprints all over the screen.

And when I went back to typing, I could still feel that sticky residue on my hands.

So even when my hands felt dry, I often skipped hand cream altogether.

I thought,

“Maybe Singapore is just too humid for hand cream.”

But that wasn’t the whole story.

Even in humid Singapore, spending hours in air-conditioning and washing your hands frequently can still leave your hands feeling dry.

And what I hadn’t realised was how much hydration my dry-feeling hands actually needed .

I had always assumed that if I just applied more hand cream, my hands would stay moisturised.

But what I really wanted wasn’t another heavy layer of cream.

I wanted something that could give my hands moisture without leaving them feeling greasy or sticky.

That’s when I found this moisturising gel.

To be honest, I was skeptical at first.

It felt so much lighter than the hand creams I was used to that I thought,

“Can something this light really be moisturising enough?”

So I decided to start with the trial set.

What surprised me most was how different it felt from the heavy hand creams I had been avoiding.

In this article, I’ll share honestly why my hands could still feel dry in humid Singapore, why I struggled to keep using regular hand creams, and what changed when I switched to a lightweight moisturising gel.