Julia
Find a climbing shop, something like a K2 - a specialist shop and go and get some "Hand Jam" - DH uses it for rigging, he only needs to put it on twice a day and it keeps his hands nice. It doesn't smell "girlie", it has natural products in it.

We were in a climbing shop last week, picking up some new carabinas for him, and a girl was in there and she was commenting on how much indoor rockclimbing is drying out her hands, I turned to her and said get some hand jam, that I use it every day and it is fantastic and I've tried a lot of hand creams including expensive ones. She tried some on her hands there. I was in there today and the guys said the girl came back and bought a tub the next day.

The little tub (about the size of a lip balm tub) is about $10 and he only needs to dip his finger in there. We've had our tub for about 4 months and it hasn't run out yet. I'm about to go and buy one for me coz DH has started keeping it in his rigging bag.