Winter Dryness

[Princess Ash]

Yup...you know that time of year...
Chapped lips
Cracked hands
Icky feet
etc.

What happens to you?
Right now my lips are very chapped.
What rememdies do you have to share with the DIS?
Vasaline/Blistex

Discuss

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

My hair gets static-y.

Its bad. Today I ran my fingers through my hair, and then -- POOF! Static.

Not cool.

 

[mamacatnv]

My arms & legs look like a snake.

I use a lot of exfoliants, and love the MAC lip conditioner along with Body Shop "Butter" products as well as their dry mist oils. This seems to help. I also keep the humidifier running in our bedrooms at night to help ease the dryness of the sinuses, throats etc....

 

[PatriotsRule]

My hair gets static-y.

Its bad. Today I ran my fingers through my hair, and then -- POOF! Static.

Not cool.

x1000

My hair gets super staticky. I used to get dry lips, but I don't anymore. That's because I avoided breathing through my mouth and put lots of lip gloss on.

As for dry hands and feet, I got nothin'.

 

[topaz_onyx]

Yup...you know that time of year...
Chapped lips
Cracked hands
Icky feet
etc.

What happens to you?
Right now my lips are very chapped.
What rememdies do you have to share with the DIS?
Vasaline/Blistex

Discuss

When your lips are chapped dont put any lipstick/liner on and not too much gloss. It helps to drink a lot of water/juice and eat fruit

 

[x morgan]

Yup...you know that time of year...
Chapped lips
Cracked hands
Icky feet
etc.

What happens to you?
Right now my lips are very chapped.
What rememdies do you have to share with the DIS?
Vasaline/Blistex

Discuss

I was watching the Tyra Banks show a while back, and her remedy is to put a thick layer of vasaline on your lips, wait about 5 minutes and then take an old toothbrush and "exfoliate" by lightly rubbing your lips with the tooth brush. Works like a charm.

 

[Nitrogen X Laced]

Lips- Lip balm durring the day. At night and after showers I put vasaline on them.

Hands and Feet- For hands I put on avon hand cream every night. For feet I put on Bath and Body works foot cream and put socks on and sleep with them durring the night.

Face- I use a face cream at night and a lotion in the morning.

Body- Coco butter.

 

[Sparx]

I have a skin condition that is worsened by extreme dry air. I have very dry skin, and I'm allergic to scented things (perfume, soap, deodorant) so I have to use unscented everything. But right now, the back of my legs are broken out in dry skin patches. The dry, cold air makes them worse.

My lips also chap, bad.

 

[Mickey1122]

I have chapped lips and for the first time ever, I have a crack on my normally unflawed skin. Not fun, but moisturizer works well.

 

[VolleyballQt07]

my lips always get dry and chapped.

 

[tigger/winnie/tink]

chapped lips
dry skin
exema

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

My skin always gets really dry and my lips get really chapped - I'm drinking water constantly and use about 93 pounds of lotion and chapstick on a day.

 

[Babyjustrun]

My lips are chapped, but it also doesn't help that when they get chapped I bite them.

My hands are dried out from the cold and the constant use of hand sanitizer.

I'm also taking, hotter and hotter showers, drying my entire body out and then I wind up scratching ... sometimes till I bleed. It's pretty bad. I'm self destructive when I get itchy, because the itch just never leaves.

My face is currently dried out, for some unknown reason, the skin under my eye is dried out and puffy and painful.

 

[RrCoAsTeR]

DRY SKIN!!! Especially on my legs. It is like, a rash, when it gets really bad. I put various types of lotion on eight times a day, and they are all flakey and dry still. The Body Butter from the Body SHop works best, and before I go to bed I slather a thick layer of Vaseline on them and then sleep with my softball socks on. That works really well.

The vaseline lip intensive care is really good for lips, too.

 

[IrishTink]

i get sick like right now. ughh...
my lips always get chaped.

 

[EeyoreFan1]

I am going NOW to do that vasaline/toothbrush thing. Thanks so much. My hands get really dry, and my lips are permanently dry. I've tried EVERY thing out in pharmacy, and the doctor said vasaline... It helps, but for it to be truly efficient, I'd be putting it on 20 times a day! MY lips are cracked, and they peel daily. You see me picking at my lip every day. It's nasty. I breath through my mouth...sometimes...not too much anymore, but in the winter I CAN'T breath through my nose so I have to. =[

 

[EeyoreFan1]

Yay! It works! Now, how often will I need to do that is the question. It hurts when you do it. I knew it would. My lips bled, and I barely touched them, but it did get all the dry 'skin' off. I HIGHLY reccomend putting like a tub ov vaseline on afterwords though.

 

[BabyPiglet]

My mom gets extremely dry hands around this time. She puts a load of lotion on before bed (a special prescribed kind) and cotton gloves which she sleeps in (She looks like Mickey). Then all through out the day she puts little amounts of lotion on her hands (just a dab) about every hour or so.

As for me, my legs get dried out. Not too bad though. I just put cocoa butter on them.

And my lips are ALWAYS extremely dry. I can't stand greasy stuff on my lips so I normally just let them be dry. I also have a bad habit of biting my lips...

 

[PatriotsRule]

Exema is a big problem with me too. Whenever I start wearing a new piece of jewelry my skin in that area flips out until it gets used to the jewelry. It's really annoying.

 

[PrincessKally]

Hair - EXTREME Static (And I thought I was the only one...good to know it's not jsut me!)

Face - Very dry

Legs/feet - very dry especially after shaving. (which is rare in the winter lol, I know thats kinda of gross, but now I'min gym so I do more often) TMI I realize that hahah

Nose - Dry and runny at different times

I need a good lotion, i put lotion on all the time, doesnt help my legs. I love my burts beeswax. My hair, no idea how to unstatic it.