Dry elbows even after moisturising - what to try?

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My elbows seem dry and a bit red even after I've been applying all sorts of moisturisers morning and night for weeks. I don't have generally dry skin, it's average, but my elbows suddenly seem ultra dry.

Has anyone got a good idea of what to try next...preferably cheap!!

Perhaps the perfume in what you've used has caused the redness?

Last night I used Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream on my feet and went to bed in socks, they are like baby's bums now! Not cheap but you only have to do it a couple of times a month.

Or you could have a look in Boots, they usually have a section for dry skin conditions and most of that stuff is non perfumed. I think a higher urea content is better.

Waitrose bottom butter - £3ish

Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream - £6ish maybe - a tube does last forever though

Flexitol Heel Balm - £5ish

Neutrogena Glycerin handcream - £3.50ish

I can highly recommend any of the above. I have found the most effective way is to rub Bio Oil into the dry area and then apply a layer of any of the above suggestions on top. It seals the oil in and works an absolute treat every time.

Elbows, knees, feet, heels, hands, you name it.

I solved my own dry elbow problem just this very morning - using my DD's Hydromol (sp?)

It is brilliant.

Or try running a bath with a cupful of oats in the water (puts the oats in an old popsock/foot from a pair of old tights first, otherwise you spend ages fishing it out of the plughole!) - really good at moisturing dry skin and v v v cheap.

Then, while your skin is still damp from the bath, smooth Vitamin E oil (Superdrug sell this pretty cheaply, as do Boots I think) into your skin and seal with a layer of your normal moisturiser.

x-post! glad you got it sorted!

Sudocrem!

exfoliate with a handful of brown sugar and oil firts.

Thank you lovely ladies, I will try some/all of the above!! Hopefully goodbye yucky elbows.

Also, when you have squeezed lemons put the empty halves on your elbows, it softens the dead skins and helps to remove it.