Terribly dry skin on legs - what to use to make soft and lovely?

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I haven't been moisturising as much as I did in summer and my legs are now flaky to the point of being scaly. They need some intensive care - any suggestions? At the moment I am using Body Shop Brazil Nut body butter and using bath oils / salt scrubs with oil in them when bathing but the results are not coming fast enough. Would vitamins, diet help?

Plenty of water and Clinique's body butter.

I was going to recommend soap and glory body butter but I see you're using a body butter already. My legs were like crocodile skin before I started using it and now they're lovely and smooth. Use it straight after shower/bath, while your skin is still wet for best results.

I was going to recommend soap and glory body butter but I see you're using a body butter already. My legs were like crocodile skin before I started using it and now they're lovely and smooth. Use it straight after shower/bath, while your skin is still wet for best results.

Don't have your bath too hot and use something like Doublebase (or Ponds Cocoa Butter is good if you want something more "fancy"!)

exfoliating gloves, eucerin cream. if shaving legs use hair conditioner or moisturiser rather than soap or shaving gel which is drying. Shaving exfoliates a bit too.

As someone with dry skin and the odd psoriasis patch I consider myself an expert on scaly legs! This is what you need to do:

Exfoliate like a mad woman to get the dead skin off so that the creams can penetrate. You need to get Clinique sparkle skin, the one in the tub with the minty smell (not in the tube which is different). Use 1-2 tablespoons per half a leg on damp skin and rub it all over until it hurts. Do this every othet day for a week then twice a week, then once a week when your skin is sorted. On the days that you do not exfoliate, use Dove Deeply Nurushing (pyramid bottle) in the shower, or similar but not perfumed shower gels.

Then slather huge amounts of either Palmers Coccoa Butter, or Dove Intensive Lotion, or Clarins Moisture Rich (if feeling plush). They all work if you use every day. I have tried drinking more water or taking vitamins, no results.

I guarantee legs soft as a baby's bottom in 3 days with the above regime :-)

Good luck x

Waitrose baby bottom butter works well, smells nice and is cheap. Also shower rather than bathe, or bathe in water that's not too hot and add baby oil and salt to the bath.

BioOil!! I tested this recently for mn and my legs were like yours,you barely use any and its worked a test!

vaseline intensive care.

Agree. Oil. Moroccan is good.

another vote for lush dream cream here.i also use their sugar scrub.keeps my snakeskin in check!

Neutrogena Cream Oil is lovely and only £4.99 ish a bottle- really works or they also do a body cream.

Soap and Glory exfoliators are quite good too- if you can abided the smell- I have alove/hate thing with their products re.smell/

Avon's dry oil spray is fab! here

To be honest I think most good moisturising body creams or body butters would work fine with this, but the key is to moisturise your legs every single day without fail.
I do mine straight after my morning shower and again when I'm getting ready for bed. If not in winter my shins dry right out to the point that the skin can develop little cracks and get sore.

Take Omega 3

I'm with Selks - they key is regular use! After years of my searching out for the best, most miraculous product to help my crocodile legs (that's how scal they were), I decided in a fit of economising, to use what I had, and use it everyday. And behold - bye-bye crocodile.

For the record, I now buy/use E45 Endless Moisture, which I love. But all the creams worked, if I just used them. I found the butters though if used regularly, took ages to sink in, so I now only use these if I need an extra boost - usually if I have not stuck to my moisturising 'regime' !

Aveeno body lotion (the one for really dry skin) with oatmeal is v good. When my legs get too dry and itchy most of the body butters etc sting too much to use. Bio-oil is good, if I remember not to use it just after scratching at my legs in frustration!

So many body lotions smell so awful that I can't use them - Soap and Glory and Palmers are two examples. Somebody on here recommended This Works oil for dry legs but it smells so bad that there is no way I could use it.