My skin needs drenching!

[Zebraa]

My skin is soooo dry! Can anyone recommend any reasonably priced products that work well. Preferably something I can pick up in Superdrug as it is closest to me.

My skin is so dry it actually flakes when I take tights/skinny jeans off.

Should I be exfoliating and bathing in baby oil or something??

Baby oil on wet skin straight after a bath/shower

Are you drinking enough water? You need about 2 litres per day. The best way to drink it is gradually throughout the day. A nutritionist told me that otherwise, it's like watering a dry plant, and it all runs straight out of you again. But if you take regular sips, it rehydrates you. If you're not used to drinking that much, you will spend the first two or three days peeing like mad! But after that, you should see your skin bloom (and you shouldn't need the loo so much!)

Anyone recommend a really cheap good quality exfoliator?

I hardly drink water, I eat relatively healthily though, but I should drink more water I know.

My skins exactly the same,face is so dry after washing it too flaky mess!

I use some exfoliating gloves that I got from the body shop, like these with my normal shower gel, then oil afterwards

I alternate between using L'occitane shea butter moisturiser for facial dry skin which is lovely and expensive, and my son's Diprobase cream for everywhere else. not glamourous in the slightest but it does the job!

The Weleda body oils (birch or sea buckthorn) leave the skin lovely and soft and you don't really have to use them every day.

cheap exfoliation: fill a bowl with salt, drench in oil (baby oil or better a natural sesame oil - about $3 in health shop) slather on - rub - shower.
Make it nice by adding a few drops of lavender / geranium /rose essential oils or grapefruit/orange for anti-cellulite effect (or so they say in the book)

And yes, oil on damp skin after shower works best.
Good old Nivea is fab.

Superdrug do a good exfoliating glove thing. Not cheap but Elizabeth Arden 8 hour body cream is the best thing you can buy for dry skin imo, and I have tried ALL the others! It's much better value for money imo.

Love the actual 8 hour cream but found the body one so so.

The L'oreal expertise bodyscrub is very efficient too. Lots of gritty things to polish you all over.

Your two litres a day can come from any source, including your solid food. Does anyone seriously think that everyone prior to the modern fad for bottled water suffered from flaky skin from lack of it? There is NO science-based, peer-reviewed work which shows the "need " for all this extra water.
A nutritionist's qualification, as cited by nonickname, could come from the American University of Hair - like Gillian McKeith's " doctorate", i.e . means bugger all.
On the other hand, the views of a dietician are worth taking seriously.

The exfoliation sounds sensible, and a body brush is even cheaper than exfoliating creams.