Has anyone found a cure for pimply upper arms (Keratosis Pilaris) ?

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This is for my DD who hates her upper arms. I have googled and found an old thread on here about using soap and glory scrub your nose in it so we will try that.
There was also mention of cream from GP - does anyone know the name of this cream.

Any other magic remedies for Keratosis Pilaris.

Thankyou

I'm sure that I have heard the clarisonic Plus (for body and face) is really good for this

This stuff . It's ace.

I've heard folks recommend Flexitol cream because of the high urea (?) content. I couldn't hack it because it smells grim, but apparently it works a treat.

i once used a body butter from the body shop and it changed the nature of my skin on my upper arms. It was a white musk one, and it was about £14 a tub - really good.

Watching this closely as my DD also has KP. I've heard you need a cream that contains salysilic acid.

Keeping an eye on this as the only remedy I've found is pregnancy!

Is that where your upper arms are really bumpy? I didn't know there was a name for that!

One of those scrubbing flower things everytime I shower

Flexitol darling - as several old MN threads will attest. Be careful of your clothes, though - it's very thick.

I have heard about the cream with salicylic acid in- this may be the one that the GP prescribes.

Are all the creams recommended on going treatments that she will have to do everyday forever?

Going to boots in a bit so very gratful for the recommendations.

Flexitol - twice a day initially then I usually forget ease off to once. Haven't used it since last summer but my arms don't look as bad as usual.
It does come back if you stop using it but it's still easily remedied.
I usually step it up again in the summer.

I find the soap & glory foot cream works and it smells a hell of a lot better than flexitol which makes me feel sick.

And regular exfoliation - also fake tan seems to help. Or at least makes my arms look better.

Hi, my son has this very badly.(I have it just on my upper arms and always felt awful about it but its nothing compared to his.) He even has on his face which is awful. We have consulted various experts and tried lots and lots of creams and scrubs. I think the key for body areas such as arms is daily exfoliation with a mild shower gel lilke Sanex for sensitive skin on one of the net scrubby things and moisturisation with something also gentle and without many additives like Keils Intensive Moisturiser. If you go too hard at it or use cheap products it just makes things redder and more angry. We have used vitamin A creams which encourage a fast skin turn over but after a while it began to irritate and make the redness worse but is worth trying till that happens as the skin does soften.

Finally I would say that my sons skin is never better than when on holiday in the sun, swimming in the sea, and using good quality suncreams for sensitive skin.

Its a rotten condition and your daughter has my sympathy.

I have it, or something similar, my arms feel bumpy and always have done, but they don't look any different, or red, but i presume thats what it is, I've always had it since i was a child, It's not something that botheres me particularly, but am reading this thread with interest.

Different things work for different people, but however and whatever you use is a two-pronged thing to minimise (there isn't a cure, as such) the appearance. Exfoliation (manual or chemical) and hydration, to soothe and plump up

I was the one who recommended flexitol but some find it exacerbates the redness

Clarisonic body brush is good

Sun is good - I didn't have it when living in se Asia.

Pregnancy minimised it, but bfeeding and post-partum made it reappear

Non SLS products good

Lots of moisturiser with ahas or urea good.

You have to exfoliate daily and moisturise twice daily.

And don't pick it!

Flexitol worked a treat for me. However I have also found Liz Earle's Nourishing Body cream to be very effective. Both my DC have bumpy skin on legs and arms and LE helps sort them out. It helps with eczema patches too. Smells fabulous- much nicer than Flexitol !

Flexitol did work for me when I tried it. I'll also try the eucerin

Palmers shea butter with aha's worked for me. It's in.a green bottle wand costs about £3. Don't wear it directly before going in the sun though. My beautician put me onto it, Lalthough MD formulations do a similar more expensive one

Might try the Liz Earle one - My legs and stomach look like they're threatening to go the KP way sometimes but I couldn't stand Flexitol all over.
I think I'm alleegic to shea butter, otherwise I'd try the Palmers one.

I had this for flipping years, couldn't wear vest tops or summery tops and then it vanished! I thought the sun cleared it up e.g. on holiday but I realised it was aerosol deodorant all along , just a coincidence that i always took roll on deodorants on holiday with me, never had any problems since I changed to roll on

I sound like an advert for roll on deodorants!

Hmm that's got shea butter < quandary >.

O and i thought it said under arms! Double

Thing I found that worked was combination of improving diet (less junk, higher proportion of protein, more water - I was also trying to lose weight, but not necessarily an issue for the OPs DD of course) and exercise. I was at the gym or swimming a lot, with regular post-swim saunas too (you don't say how old your DD is - may not be an option) I think it was almost a case of sweating the gunk out of my skin before it made the lumps.

No potions, still use biological washing powder, and other benefits too!

I used to have this really badly when I was about 14, so my mum bought me this. There is a page explaining the science behind it here, although I'm not a scientist and have no idea if these claims are true. I think my mum bought mine in Selfridges - it is expensive, but a pot lasts for ages and you hardly need any.

I used it for a year or two (once or twice a week) and haven't used it in the last few years - my arms aren't as good as they were when I used it, but they are so much better.

I love Soap and Glory scrub your nose in it, so even if it doesn't work on the KP it's a great face mask.