The Original. The Icon. Eight Hour Cream.

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant is one of the most iconic, most beloved, and most enduring products in the history of prestige beauty — a multi-purpose, multi-tasking skin protectant that has been a cult essential in the makeup bags, bathroom cabinets, and travel kits of beauty devotees, makeup artists, models, and skincare experts for over nine decades since its creation by Elizabeth Arden herself in the 1930s. The legend of Eight Hour Cream begins with its name — coined by a devoted early customer who reported that the cream had healed her child’s grazed knee in just eight hours — and its reputation has been sustained not by marketing but by genuine, remarkable, irreplaceable performance that no subsequent imitation or reformulation has managed to match. This lightly scented version of the original formula delivers the same legendary multi-purpose skin protection with a subtle, refined fragrance that makes the application experience even more pleasant without altering the formula’s unrivalled efficacy. 50ml/1.7oz of the beauty world’s most iconic skin protectant, lightly scented for a more refined application experience.

Key Benefits

• Legendary multi-purpose skin protection — soothes, heals, moisturises, and protects dry, chapped, cracked, and irritated skin anywhere on the body with the formula that has been trusted by beauty experts for over 90 years
• Intensely moisturises and softens extremely dry skin on the face, lips, hands, elbows, heels, cuticles, and any area that suffers from dryness, roughness, or irritation
• Soothes and calms irritated, reactive, windburned, and environmentally stressed skin with the formula’s protective and emollient complex
• Protects and seals the skin’s surface with a protective barrier that locks in moisture, prevents further moisture loss, and shields the skin from environmental irritants
• Conditions and softens dry, cracked cuticles and heels with the formula’s intensive emollient actives
• Lightly scented formula delivers the same iconic Eight Hour Cream performance with a subtle, pleasant fragrance that enhances the application experience

Suggested Use

Eight Hour Cream’s versatility is its defining characteristic — there is almost no dry skin concern, no area of the body, and no application scenario in which it cannot be usefully deployed. Some of the most beloved and widely practised uses include:

Face: Apply a small amount to extremely dry patches, chapped areas, or irritated skin as a targeted treatment over your regular moisturiser. Use as an overnight mask for deeply dehydrated or winter-stressed skin — apply a thin layer all over the face before sleeping and wake up to noticeably more supple, hydrated skin.

Lips: Apply liberally to dry, chapped, or cracked lips at any time — Eight Hour Cream is one of the most effective lip treatments ever formulated, providing immediate relief and sustained protection. Apply a thin layer before sleeping for overnight lip repair.

Hands and cuticles: Massage into dry hands and work into the cuticles for intensive softening and protection. Apply before wearing gloves in cold weather for enhanced protection against wind and cold-induced dryness.

Heels and elbows: Apply generously to dry, cracked heels and rough elbows as a targeted intensive treatment. For severely dry heels, apply at night before sleeping in cotton socks for an intensive overnight treatment.

Brows: A favourite makeup artist technique — apply a tiny amount to the brows with a clean spoolie to groom, condition, and add a natural-looking definition to sparse or dry brows.

Key Features

• Over 90 Years of Iconic Status — The Performance That Built the Legend: The longevity of Eight Hour Cream’s iconic status in the beauty world is the most powerful testament to its performance — in an industry defined by trend cycles, reformulations, and the constant churn of new launches, a product that has maintained its cult status and its devoted following for over nine decades has achieved something genuinely extraordinary. The reason is simple: Eight Hour Cream works better than anything else at what it does. Its unique combination of petrolatum, salicylic acid, and vitamin E in a formula that seals, soothes, and protects the skin’s surface has never been meaningfully bettered by any of the hundreds of multi-purpose balms and skin protectants that have sought to replicate its success
• The Multi-Tasker’s Essential — One Product, Infinite Applications: Eight Hour Cream’s status as the original and definitive beauty multi-tasker reflects its genuine versatility — a single formula that performs effectively as a lip treatment, hand cream, cuticle conditioner, heel balm, brow groomer, highlighter, makeup primer, overnight face mask, and targeted treatment for any dry, chapped, irritated, or compromised skin concern. This versatility is not a marketing claim but a lived reality for the millions of devotees who have discovered, through personal experience, that Eight Hour Cream is the one product they reach for instinctively whenever their skin needs help
• Lightly Scented — The Iconic Formula, Refined: The original Eight Hour Cream’s distinctive, medicinal scent is beloved by many and off-putting to others — a fragrance characteristic that is inseparable from the formula’s heritage but that has historically been a barrier for consumers sensitive to strong scents. The lightly scented version of the formula retains the original’s complete efficacy while replacing the characteristic medicinal scent with a subtle, refined fragrance that makes the application experience more pleasant and universally accessible
• Elizabeth Arden — The Creator of the Beauty Routine: Elizabeth Arden’s contribution to modern beauty was not merely a product but a philosophy — the revolutionary idea that skincare is a daily practice, that the skin requires consistent care and protection, and that every woman deserves access to the best that beauty science can offer. Eight Hour Cream embodies this philosophy in its purest form: a product that works, that lasts, and that has earned its iconic status through performance rather than promise