I tried the Mary Kay stuff when I had a friend start selling it, but am back to Oil of Olay. It keeps my skin much softer and smoother (on my face.) I use Curel everywhere else and I also like Avon's Rich Moisture Therapy. My grandmother swears by it and she's 82 and has great skin! I don't always get time to do more than my face, but I try. I have naturally dry skin, so I need to more often, but with three young kids it's not always easy! The facial part is ingrained into my shower routine, so I always do that!
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Jen,
Wife to Gil,
Mom to Cullen, Eden, Kate and Jonas
I agree with Robin - that you need to read the list of ingredients on the bottles of lotion. Most of them are packed with chemicals! When you apply the lotion to your skin, your skin is absorbing the lotion/chemicals. Not good! Same goes with petroleum products, like Robin also mentioned. You don't want to put petroleum on your skin.
As a side note, Bath & Body Works' lotions may smell good, but one of their ingredients is alcohol! Now how strange is that, for lotion to have alcohol, which is drying?! I've tried their lotions before, and sure enough, an hour or two later, my skin feels even drier. So you use more lotion. It's a vicious cycle. And actually counter-productive to your skin!
Soooo...what to do? Look for companies that sell natural lotions -Shaklee, look at the health food store.
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I use Mosturel on my face...mosturizes but doesn't leave that 'greasey' feeling. I have used Jergens on the rest of my body for 20 yrs. I have always used some moisture on my face since I was in my teens. I also got my daughters and son moisturizing in their early teens too. To this day, they all do it very religiously.
I also take "FLAX SEED OIL CAPSULES" puchased at where health products are sold. I fed Flax seed years ago to my horses, the vet saying back then is the best thing for their skin and hair. A few years ago when our Yellow Lab started having a dry itchy skin problem and I didn't like the drugs the vet had him on, made him very dosile and gaining weight I remembered what I gave the horses....Flax Seed. I bought the capsules, the YL takes one a day..and hasn't had any skin problems since. So my thinking was.....well if it is good for the animals, it must be good for me, after all I puchase them in a people drugstore LOL....I stared taking them. Not only has it helped my skin, and believe me when I say that, I have moved from the west coast of Canada to here in London, Ontario, where in the summer is very humid and A/C's going full blast, and in the winter is very dry. My skin isn't flakey and dry, I don't itch, my skin is always soft. Much much softer and moistured than if I was just moisturizing from the outside....The bonus to taking Flax Seed Oil Capsules is my hair is thicker. I have very limp and worse than baby fine hair...it is shiney, heathly looking, feeling and much much better than it was before the flax. Moistureizer works on the outside. Flax works from the inside out.
Yes, I have always used body lotion from "neck to toe" :p and it has served my skin well. I do use Jergens. I do not use it on my face. I have a face moisturizer and I never go to bed without cleansing my face and applying moisturizer. This is something my Mother taught me and she had beautiful skin until the day she died at 83. I really do think it makes a difference in the long run.
I just started lotioning up after my shower when my skin is still fairly wet. It has really made a difference! I just use my kid's sunscreen lotion because I tend to burn easily anyway-2 birds with one stone I guess.
I'm allergic to a lot of other lotions/creams so I also have to be real careful what I use. My mom says crisco shortening is the best and cheapest lotion! Her skin is like porcelain and she's 75! I just haven't been able to do that to my skin though!
Yeah, same here -- I'm going to get some flax seed oil when I'm out and about today. Makes sense, moisturizing from the inside as well as the outside. Here in Tucson we all go around with bottles of water and drink it constantly. There's been some debate lately about "too much" water but here the rule of thumb is "if you're thirsty, you're already getting dehydrated." Adding flax seed oil is a great idea. I'm going to try it on my 13-year old Rhodesian Ridgeback's "elbows" too. The hair is worn off, the skin thick is and scaly, and sometimes it gets red and irritated. The vet says "old age" but if flax seed oil helped your yellow lab, why not give it a try? Thanks!
I put lotion on everyday right after my shower. I used to use Jergens Firming Lotion, but didn't like the smell anymore. So I started using Pond's Ultra Silk Body Lotion. I love the way it feels and I love the smell of roses. My husband noticed the difference right away! He even said my skin feels like satin... like silk.
I live in Utah, and it is really dry here, so I use lotion everyday, all over. I wear sandles all summer, and by putting lotion on my feet everyday, my heals stay pretty smooth. I like scented lotions, then when I put on the matching body spray, the scent lasts longer.
Lauri
He even said my skin feels like satin... like silk.
