Dry Skin Products

amyb_2

Wondered if anyone could help me; I have really tight/dry skin and spend a fortune on 'specialist' lotions and potions. Curently use a product called Aveeno which is really good but cost about £8 for a shower oil and doesn't last too long. Also use E45 bath oil, and lotions which again aren't cheap - and are almost never on special anywhere.

Does anyone know of any good own brand products or cheaper shops to buy from.

Would be much appreciated.

Uniscots97

Why not make your own? Get a good aromatherapy book from the library and use some of the recipes out of there. This is how I survived when i was a student and needed specialist skin care.

amyb_2

unixgirluk wrote: »

Why not make your own? Get a good aromatherapy book from the library and use some of the recipes out of there. This is how I survived when i was a student and needed specialist skin care.

Do you need to keept that sort of thing in the fridge??? Don't think the three blokes i live with would appriciate me stealing their beer space

poe.tuesday

my partner has such dry skin that his hands and feet litterally crack whenever the weather gets cold, he has really rough dry skin all over.

Last year I started to use quite an abrasive scrubbing mit on him and that get rid of a lot of the tightness he feels and use stuff like aquoise cream which is really cheap and seems to do the trick on the body, for the hands and feet there isn't really anything he can do but wait until the good weather but he has found relief from neutrogena hand stuff and wait for it....uddersalve :eek: (it's put onto cows udders to stop them chapping, you get it from vets and places like sprats)

shokadelika

Ever thought of reasearching the wonderfull benefits of extra virgin olive oil when applied to skin?

ariba10

A dermatologist told me that the best skin moisturizer was Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline)

milkydrink

I love Dove & Olay body products (& often on BOGOF:money: ).

If they don't suit what about baby products, they are very gentle & own brand ones very cheap:D .

Kim

amyb_2

ariba10 wrote: »

A dermatologist told me that the best skin moisturizer was Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline)

Have used Vaseline on my feet before succesfully. Not quite sure of the practicalities of going to bed all salved up of an evening tho - surely its really sticky. Think i'd be sleeping alone. :rotfl:

Sugar_Coated_Owl

Aqueous cream is really good for dry skin problems.

Uniscots97

No you don't need to keep aromatherapy stuff in the fridge in a drawer is fine as long as the stuff is stored out of the light.

bigpaws23

I'd work from the inside, out by looking at your diet.
Do you:
- drink a couple of litres of water a day?
- have some essential fatty acids every day in the form of oily fish (salmon, sardines, tuna, mackrel) , seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower) or nuts?

I'd also suggest a daily zinc supplement and cutting out things like tea, coffee, alcohol and smoking as these all dehydrate you.

Ironically, I used to have dry tight skin until I gave up the expensive creams and lotions. Now I use next to nothing and my skin has never looked or felt better. My dh is always commenting on how soft it is.

I make a couple of products - yogurt and oats for cleansing and then I rarely need a moisturiser as oats are wonderfully soothing.
I make an all purpose lotion that can be used on my hands or face with neem oil and some essential oils in it. The base oils for that are jojoba, rosehip and avocado.

Something that is wonderful for the skin is sesame oil (not the toasted sort LOL!) it is very soothing and moisturising for dry skin.

Bigpaws x