Bad skin..dry and cracky..!!?

Does anyone know a way to hydrate skin?





I am pretty young, but I have alligator skin! It's kind of cracky. I am trying to find a lotion or a remedy that can rid me of it. I never lotioned when I was younger..I never took care of my skin so now it is all cracky and I've been searching for lotions that will heal my skin...to no avail!!





Has anyone experienced this and what did you use or do to give urself basically a fresh batch of skin..





Thanks

Bad skin..dry and cracky..!!?
Try Emu Oil or Murad's body lotion. Emu is at all of the health food stores. Murad is expensive but wow, it works beautifully. The cheapest route to go is to slather on pure olive oil, let that soak in and then layer on some lotion like Vaseline Intensive Care (no scent, just regular). All of those things work, I've used them for quite a while now.
Reply:I have that type of skin too! Especially my legs it's all scaly and stuff. I use Lubridem and Vaseline really good but I see you have already tried that. So try talking to a dermatologist or your doctor to see if he/she has any ideas.
Reply:I like to use Nivea lotion, and put petroleum jelly on at night. It feels yucky and uncomfortable because youre pants stick to your legs, but it looks good in the morning.
Reply:baby oil right after you shower on your body fixed the problem for me it feels very oily at the beginning but it works good luck ;-)
Reply:Dry skin types have to be extremely careful to protect their skin.Yogurt-honey combination helps dry skin. Make an egg pack with a yolk, a teaspoon of honey, a tablespoon of milk powder. This is beneficial to dry skin types. There are many helpful tips to cure dry skin at http://useinfo-dryskin.blogspot.com/
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Reply:is the dry skin all over? it could be that something else you are using - soap, laundry detergent, fabric softener, etc. might be irritating your skin and causing it to be dry.





a lot of people don't realize this, but one of the first, most minor symptoms of an allergy is often dryness.





all of the things you listed as having tried, they all have either a long list of ingredients (the more you expose yourself to, the better your odds of being sensitive to something), or preservatives (any lotion that contains both water and oils will have preservatives, which can be an irritant to some) or petroleum products (Vaseline) which are a known skin irritant.





as a skincare professional, i'd advise you to do a process of elimination first to see if you can figure out if anything is causing a sensitivity. switch to unscented laundry detergent, stop using fabric softener for a bit (really....static cling is **Not*** as big a deal as the commercials make you believe), and get a natural shampoo and conditioner from the health food store - preferably unscented. switch to a natural soap, preferably unscented. you can get these at the health food store, too. for a moisturizer, use plain almond, sesame or olive oil (or cocoa butter, as long as you look at the ingredients and see that it is NOTHING BUT cocoa butter) applied to damp skin to seal in moisture.





as your skin improves, slowly start adding things back one at a time - laundry soap, then fabric softener, then regular shampoo, then regular conditioner, etc....and watch to see if the dryness returns. if it does, you'll know the culprit.





best of luck to you.
Reply:i had suuuuper dry skin before. my mom had bought some coconut oil, and it made my skin baby soft. even cleared up my acne.
Reply:First of all, you should handle your skin very gently. Start out by gently scrubbing away the dry skin at east three times per week with a skin scrub. Clinique has a great body scrub. If you'd rather but an inexpensive scrub, try St. Ives Apricot scrub. It works just as well. You'll find that moisturizes work each time you shower, massage some oil on your skin while it is still wet. Baby oil or Alpha Keri oil will do the job. Blot your skin to get rid of the excess oil. Always moisturize your skin before going to bed. An excellent lotion is Nivea skin oil, which actually looks like a lotion (comes in a white bottle.) Nivea lotion (in the blue bottle) is also good but it's not as rich as Nivea oil. Shea butter is also good if you can find one that is as pure as possible.





Don't forget to clean your face well even if you skin is dry. If you don't, you could end up breaking out. Wash with white Dove bar, Neutrogena, or a glycerine soap. Use only mild soaps on your body but it's best to avoid using it on your face unless you wear a lot of make-up. Use a cleansing cream followed by a mild astringent such as Witch Hazel.





Remember that regardless of what you use on your skin, you must begin treatment from the inside. Eat adequate amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, drink lots of water and take multi-vitamins, including Vitamin A, D, E. Good old fashioned Cod liver oil tastes awful but will make your skin look moist and beautiful.
Reply:try coco-butter cream in the yellow container, not the lotion.
Reply:Hmm... Well skin shouldnt be so dry like this... I have heard drinking more water and eating more eggs and fish is good for skin.





For me, what worked was a Garnier product. It's in a red bottle and it's got "maple sap" in it. Something like that. It absorbs very fast... You can test it at the shops (when no ones looking) to see if it works.