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Summer Lovin’ … happened so fast …
Summer Lovin’ … had me a blast …
But now Fall is creeping in and my dry, super-sensitive skin is starting to sing less like the Broadway musical version of Greast and more like those low pitched chanting monks.There is a sense of impending doom in the air, and my skin knows it.
But I’ve found a solution for my skin. Hopefully, my skin trick can help you if you’re suffering from wicked-dry skin, too!
I’ve been skeeved out by how slick baby oil is since I was a kid. “On your SKIN?!” I would howl to my grandmother when she told me she used it in the shower. It never dawned on me she never felt as slick and greasy as the oil did on my fingertips, not until later.
One particularly nasty winter I was pregnant and my tummy skin was stretched out and itchy and I couldn’t sleep and I thought I was going to die of sheer annoyance. I sent my husband out to Walgreens to pick up baby oil. I figured it worked for grams, it was worth a shot. I hopped in the shower, did the shower thing, and at the end absolutly doused myself with the stuff from the top of my neck to the tips of my toes. The water started to bead on my skin and I knew it was doing it’s thing.
I kind of stood outside the shower and let myself mostly air-dry at that point. Rubbing a towel on my baby oil soaked skin didn’t seem like a good idea. I threw on my robe and slippers and went to get the hubby’s opinion. I held out an arm and said, “Feel.” He touched my arm and looked surprised. “It’s so soft. What did you do?” Baby oil, I said.
He looked horrified. (He has the opposite of dry skin. I’m pretty sure if baby oil touched his skin he would turn into a puddle of butter on the floor, so I understood his reaction.)
The best part was the softness lasted all day. No lotion touch-ups were necessary. The best part? Baby oil is way inexpensive. You can even get it in gel form if you don’t want to just randomly squirt it all over the place and require a little more control over your shower product.
It’s my bestest beauty secret in the world. It keeps my skin looking beautiful and it keeps me from scratching my itchy, dry skin until it bleeds. Definitely a win-win.
One note of caution: Use a bath mat!! Baby oil will make your bathtub slick and potentially dangerous. Also, make sure anyone who bathes or showers after you uses a bath mat, too.
Other than that, if you try it out, let me know! I’m looking foward to a pain-free-skin Fall, and hope you’ll join me. (Or, if you have your own beauty tips for skin, share them!)
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