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People with dry, itchy skin love this $16 cream from one of Sarah Jessica Parker's favorite brands
When the temperature goes down, the thermostat goes up — and that means unbearably dry, itchy skin. While we can combat that indoors with a high-quality humidifier, a good lotion can also be a major help. Shoppers with dry skin and eczema rave about La Roche-Posay Lipikar Soothing Relief Eczema Cream, from a brand that happens to be among Sarah Jessica Parker's faves. It's just $16, and if you contribute to your Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account, you can get a tax break on it too.
This cream is made with colloidal oatmeal, which has soothing, anti-itching properties. It also has niacinamide to help with redness and shea butter to lock in moisture.
Sarah Jessica Parker has sensitive skin and, for many years, she's been gushing about the La Roche-Posay Toleriane Ultra Sensitive Skin Face Moisturizer. While she's been using that moisturizer on her face, the brand's Lipikar Soothing Relief Eczema Cream is for the whole body — and it's specially made for people who suffer from eczema. Because it has health benefits, it's included in Amazon's FSA and HSA store, which means you can get it pre-tax if you elect to put money aside through your employer.
The cream includes niacinamide to help with redness caused by eczema and shea butter to lock in moisture. But the main ingredient is colloidal oatmeal, which has soothing anti-itch properties as well as anti-inflammatory elements to give your skin relief when there just isn't enough moisture in the air. It also contains a special prebiotic thermal spring water rich in selenium, a natural antioxidant.
Nearly 3,000 shoppers rave about the relief they get from this cream.
"I have eczema flares on my hands which always get worse in the winter," wrote a five-star fan. "I've been struggling to find a product that will relieve the itch and the scaly patches without making my hands slippery and greasy. I've applied this product only twice since I received it, but based on my extensive experience with other eczema products, this one is a winner! It has a great texture and soaks in quickly, but best of all, it relieves the itch very shortly after I apply it. The red scaly patches on my hands are already disappearing and my skin is left soft as a baby's cheeks!"
"This is the best hand cream I have ever used," raved another relieved shopper. "I am very sensitive to smell, and this is all but odorless. I love that. But it's also the best hand cream as far as moisture, absorption and softness."
"Hands felt instantly better, but what shocked me is that my nails seemed to be drinking this in," a third rave reviewer wrote. "For the past two years, my nails and cuticles have been parched, split, cracked and peeling. After two weeks of using this stuff, my hands are super soft, supple cuticles and no splits or peeling in my nails. I’ve used this line's hand cream and didn't have these results."
"I love the heavy moisturizing but no greasy feel," one happy shopper wrote. "Lasts through a couple of hand washings. Ended up buying body cream. With eczema, you’re always taking a gamble on lotions, but I doubled my winnings this time. I really recommend trying it."
"When I first tried this out I wound up putting on too much," a final reviewer cautioned. "My skin looked greasy and there was a bit of itching, however, after I washed it off in the shower, my skin felt amazing and there was a lot less redness on my face. I decided to do small applications on my face and have not noticed any irritation, just intense hydration. ... A little really goes a long way with this."
You don't need much of this cream to enjoy relief from itching, reviewers say.
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