yeah, that stuff is all great, but the first thing you have to do to smoothe out your skin is remove the dead skin cells that are on your lower legs especially, the feet, the arms, upper and lover, top of hands, and the face as well, as the neck.

Only thing seperate your hand and neck from body products.

There are lots of fairly inexpensive exfoliating products on the market, but you want one that will work, and that means you can use less and get your dollars worth.

Complete sets, with exfoliating face wash, pads that use peptides and proper acids to dislodge the old, worthless skin cells that need to get off the skin ... so that you are down to the real skin, cleared of the old, where it will be soft, supple and radiant, which is what you want, and also, to rid the old skin clogging up every pore, so that a real good moisturizer and skin tightener can really work, be absorbed in to the fresh new skin, that drinks up the moisture and corrective creams.

So, get thee to a detmotologist, or be brave and try a skin care line that has been a favorite of many.

Here are some brand that make skin care so easy, men and women use it all the time, for it's convenience, value and --hey it works!

Philosophy is perhaps the cheapest that encompasses everything!

They have the best cleanser, exfoliating pads already in a jar, so you take 'one' and use it on face, elbows, and upper hands.

It works.

When your face has been properly cleansed, and exfoliated, your next step of adding moisturizer and before that, a serum, will be absorbed directly into the skin.

No waste, as it does happen when you slather stuff on a face that has not been properly cleared of old yucky skin cells, at least Philosophy turns over the cells, shows the new growth, and allows their moisturizer, after their serum, to make a dramatic and real difference.

There is a product they have you can use once or twice a month to pick up the slack if you haven't been exfoliating and you are in your late 30's and over. You can pick between the oxygen or another mask-exfoliating-cleanser-old skin lifter offer, lol.

The whole deal, to get everything - will coat you about $100. maybe even more.

The promise I tell you is this, you will have it for 6 months, you will recover your youthful appearance in the skin, and remove all the dead cells, so that your products aren't wasted, going on top of dead skin.

I know of many other lines, but this one has the peel you can do at home once or twice a month, the oxygen peel, or vitamin c peel, which is harmless - the words scare us.. but it's actually fun to do, men and women, and it sets a clean canvas for other light products that can be your daily regime.

So, go to QVC, or Sephora, but a special where you get something for free with purchase, and clear up the cloudy, pastey skin in - i swear - a noticable difference in a couple of days. Keep going for three months, 3 or 4 steps, depending on how you schedule, and you will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your skin again.

There are also wonderful lotions for your neglected skin on your legs, get a good one, not creams that lay on top, with a thick molecular structure it cannot penetrate.

Do the face first, it's winter time. Work on the legs too, but start exfoliating them with a battery operated brush and GOOD cleanser cream for exfoliating.
So when you put on a moisturizer, it will penetrate and give you baby soft skin...not lay on top, wasting, as your skin is clogged with old stuff,,,ick!

hey, I'm a skin specialist, and trying to help here, so don'y kill the messenger.

There are other product lines to try alos that do work:

bliss, fresh, Philosophy (their skin care line is an exceptional value)
Dr. Denise (from Yale, I believe)
Dr. N. Perricone (wrote the wrinkle cure, and other books, very good, from Harvard)
Clarins (from France)
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that's all for now.

trust me or do not.

I've had chemo and rad, for 6 weeks, wore me out right?
my skin, with no cell turnover thanks to chemo, and other chemo issues, my skin is looking pretty, pretty good!

A combo of all of the above has been helping me...but you should start with one - philosophy, because I like the price point for what you get!

xoxox