What's Your Favorite Products For Dry Skin?

Remy

Remy

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I'm sure most here have it. I buy lotions but I also like Jojoba oil. I get it at Trader Joe's. I think it's 9 dollars for 4oz but lasts a long time. It is greasy when you put it on but my skin seems to absorb it pretty quickly.

I also like Acure brand cloud cream as my favorite face lotion. It's around 12-19 dollars for 1.7 oz (50ml) not cheap but not super expensive either. A little seems to go a long way.
 

My skin gets so dry, it cracks and bleeds — usually at my finger joints. I use hydrocortisone, which works pretty good. It's also good for treating rashes or eczema, which I'm also dealing with. My doctor said it was from stress. I've been stressed out my entire life, but I guess it caught up to me in my senior years.
 
Alligatorob said:
A humid climate... I miss Florida.

My skin gets pretty dry in the winters here, but so far I have not put anything on it, just some chapstick for my lips. Something we did not need on the Gulf Coast!
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Great point. Something I didn't consider. But that humidity has to be hard in the summer. I'm in dry climate. So dry skin I guess.
 
Irwin said:
My skin gets so dry, it cracks and bleeds — usually at my finger joints. I use hydrocortisone, which works pretty good. It's also good for treating rashes or eczema, which I'm also dealing with. My doctor said it was from stress. I've been stressed out my entire life, but I guess it caught up to me in my senior years.
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I'm sorry to hear that Irwin. I think I'm finding out what stress does to the body.

I have used Burt's Bees cuticle cream on my hands. I put it on at bedtime when I'd get cracks in my skin. It did help. Since I work part time now, my skin doesn't get as bad it seems.
 
My forearms are kind of skinny, and I can sunburn easily when working outdoors....so I always try to remember to use some good Sunscreen before I go outdoors. This Summer, one of my cousins recommended a mixture of 1/3rd Olive Oil, 1/3rd Vinegar, and 1/3rd water. I mixed up some of that and have been wiping my arms with that, and it seems to be working even better than the sunscreen. The ingredients separate quickly, so I shake the bottle, then quickly dip a Q-Tip full on the arms, and then go to work.

I noticed another "plus" to this mix....I bruise easily, and this mix helps get rid of the bruise.
 
Cerave or Lubriderm. For my feet, I use either and a pair of white cotton socks. Not a fashionable look with my black slippers, but it works.

I’m still busy thinking about that salad dressing that @Don M. makes for his body. I bruise easily too.
 
At certain times of the year, I get cracks in my fingers. The best stuff I've found is "Gold Bond For Diabetics."
They also make something for dry cracked feet.
 
I find taking a couple of teaspoons of cod liver oil and Evening Primrose oil capsules daily helps with dry skin
 
...and you look beautiful @Becky1951

People always asked my mother what she put on her face. Even in her 80's and 90's.
Her answer always surprised everyone...Vaseline. That's it. Pure and simple.
She did that every day for as long as she could remember (and she had excellent memory too)

I recently, like last week, had a problem with dry skin on my nose with some redness and spots...seriously:LOL:. My daughter told me to put coconut oil on it. I had some in the kitchen. Like a miracle it was almost gone in 24 hours...and totally gone in 48 hours.

I wonder if I was allergic or sensitive to an expensive product I was using all over my face called Olay Regenerist.
But my face was fine...just not my nose.
 
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I inherited my grandmother's skin which is good except for my arms. In the last year I have developed what is called crepe skin. I don't know of a cure but I have started using Cerave Ceramedx Ultra Moisturizing Cream. I think it is a new product. Not greasy and the skin absorbs it quickly. I use Cerave facial cleanser as well. I like O'Keefe's Working Hands cream too.
 
I bought a cream called 'Warm Skin' off Amazon last winter and it worked very well at preventing cracks in the skin around my fingertips and also kept my face feeling moisturized for hours. Don't need it much right now in the hot humid summer.
 

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