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Also known as Xerodermia, Xeroderma is defined as a condition involving the integumentary system, which in most cases can be treated with emollients or moisturizers. Xeroderma symptoms include skin scaling , itching, and cracking, and most commonly occurs on the scalp, lower legs, arms, hands, the knuckles, sides of the abdomen, and thighs. " Dry skin occurs when there is not enough water in the stratum corneum for it to function as it should." Dry skin is a very common skin issue and is often times worsened during the winter when environmental humidity is low. It may occur at all ages and in people with or without other forms of skin issues. The usually fine lines in a person's skin become more visible, the person's skin feels rough and appears flaky and dull. In more advanced instances, fish net like cracks resembling the fine fracture lines of cracked porcelain may occur. Dry skin happens most commonly on a person's legs and arms, although it may also aff...

Whether you use it in the bath or in the shower, most of us wash using shower gel or bubble bath every day. Particularly in the winter months, nothing could be nicer than settling back in a tub overflowing with soothing soapy suds . But when the average bottle of shower gel costs less than £2, it begs the question: what are you really putting onto your skin? Effervescent bath products have been around for an extremely long time , with the first fizzing bath salts appearing in the early 20th Century . Early bubble bath was made using soap flakes but by the mid-1930s, surfactants had arrived. Surfactants are a chemical compound, mostly made from synthetic materials (although some are derived from palm or coconut oils), which are usually found in industrial detergents, washing power and latterly, bath products. One commonly held misconception about bath and shower gel is that it is little more than a runny type of soap. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Not only are cheap sho...