If you have lizard skin

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What are your favourite products, secrets, tricks and tips? Face and body. If you've improved your dry, dry skin, what's your regimen?

I do have an underlying medical issue that makes it worse (diabetes) but I want lovely soft gently gleaming skin.

As budget friendly as possible, ideally.

My body is worse than my face. My legs are literally scaly. I've basically got chicken legs.

Help!

Palmer's Body Oil every morning. I like both the coconut and the cocoa butter. The cocoa butter is a bit cheaper but doesn't come in a pump so I have recently decanted it into an empty pump bottle which makes it easier to use. My skin feels a lot better for it and I prefer oil over lotions mostly. You have to be careful not to get it on clothes so leave a little bit of time before getting dressed.

After decades of trying various body lotions the two products that have actually cured the very scaly lizard skin on my lower legs are Eucerin 10% urea cream for very dry skin and Aveeno skin relief lotion for very dry skin.

You need to use regularly so every day or at least every other day.

Slapping some Aveeno on all over my body takes me 30 secs to a minute max. It absorbs really well so no tiresome rubbing in. I also do almond oil at night. It’s super greasy so you can’t wear nice PJs with it though!

Snail mucin paired with cerave, It’s cured my lizard skin on my face. I occasionally use on my body but I hate the feeling of moisturiser on under my clothes so I’m a bit lax
oh and exfoliating, especially my legs

I keep a tub of coconut oil on the bath and mix it with body lotion (mine is Neal’s Yard but I don’t think it matters) but I also chuck some Vaseline on now and then. Weleda Skin Food is great too but you can’t beat Vaseline for being cheap, unscented, healing and easy to find.

For body, Neutrogena or Aveeno are both excellent. I’ve also just bought a Clinique Moisture Surge for body and it’s really lovely.

I like rituals for day to day body moisturising, the tubs but for speed the aerosol foam body lotion is really quick to apply. I use shower oil rather than gel loccitane almond, I preferred Shea but they discontinued it, and nuxe body oil straight after the shower on damp skin.
Face is really individual I've tried lots of things but elemis marine collagen seems to work for me, with the balm cleanser at night

It’s hard to describe id say medicinal, strong, pungent, but it dissipates, a little also goes a very long way, I put it on before bed.

I love this too and the one that comes in a jar, rather than the bottle.

I hate the Elizabeth Arden smell although think they did bring out an unscented version.

Body brushing followed by any body moisturising cream helps - the Clarins Firming one is great but I’ve switched to Nivea recently as it was on offer in Boots.

I bought a Korean towel but yet to see any difference - it was a cheap one though so if anybody has recommendations for good ones it be much appreciated.

I have severe eczema and have always been dry and sensitive but I’m always getting compliments on my skin. I use:

Face:

1. House of Dohwa Rice Bran Powder Wash - it’s very gentle and brightening with a tiny bit of exfoliation.
2. Pixi Lactic Acid Toner - gentler than the glycolic acids and I only use maximum of twice a week.
3. Coconut Formula Coconut Hydrate moisturiser - somehow works better than any prescribed emollients. Gentle and smells nice, no spots caused.
4. Coconut Forumla Cocoa Butter - for when I’m extra dry and need a thicker product

Body:

1. Italy towels to exfoliate after a long bath
2. Coconut Hydrate as above works a charm

Thats it. Anything else sets my skin off and this keeps me moist ha.

These Italy towels are fantastic - https://www.stylevana.com/en_GB/sungbo-cleamy-genuine-korean-exfoliating-bath-washcloth-green-3pcs36334.html?sonid=36314&___store=bwsvukb_en&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=22687455006&utm_term=&device=m&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22697115562&gbraid=0AAAAACgRyztYwt4Hsvs-kEdFFz1Mf4-Uv&gclid=CjwKCAiA-sXMBhAOEiwAGGw6LHqrWRjTvveXosiDaJ0W9Uf5ZhT3JMTsQyolDTdWwTXiPSdZo2ZdDhoCxbkQAvD_BwE

Exfoliate to get rid of the dry skin first then body oil/ moisturiser

The ordinary multi peptide serum with squalene - my shins drank this up - and then topped with Ameliorate foot cream. It's intensely moisturising and the serum beforehand seemed to help.

In my experience it's more about how often and when than what you use. It takes less than 2 mins to moisturise all over after a shower in the morning. Pores are open after the heat so more receptive to the moisturiser, and I find now if I don't my skin feels really tight. So just pick on and commit to using every single day. Will definitely help

A GP told me to stop using moisturiser. Said it’ll never work on really dry skin. Told me to only use ointments on my skin instead. I use epaderm ointment. Tend to put loads on as I’m getting in to bed for the night and marinade in it all night.

I know this sounds a bit bonkers, but Boots do a minty foot cream in a glass jar - and I swear that stuff is magic. I use it on my arms and legs and it makes those horrid red bumps improve as well!

I really like this stuff for hot summer feet! It’s properly old school and lovely.

typical bonkers GP. that’s not what NHS and private dermatologists have told me over the last 20 years to present it’s always emollients and when things are really bad you use them every two hours and can “bandage” with old clothes to keep moisture in. never been told to use ointments

I've tried all sorts of lotions and potions over the years, but I've come to accept that having lizard skin is just part of who I am.

La roche posay cicaplast baume
Spf 50 for face

I tried the Korean cloth thing last night. OMG, the amount of skin I shed was disgusting (but also fascinating.) Slathered a generous amount of CeraVe cream on afterwards and my skin feels much better.

The bath, on the other hand, needed an industrial clean. 🤢🤣

Ameliorate range.

Can I ask if its the 8 hour cream in the little pot you use, or the 8 hour body lotion?

The Conditioning Body Balm from AKT is brilliant. Even knees and elbows are soft and smooth and the fragrances are lovely, understated and natural. It is quite expensive but I alternate it with one from Altruist. AKT deodorant is great too.