OK, so here's what usually happens: I whine about a problem I'm having, or one of my many whiny friends is having, about some aspect of growing older (yes, we really do sit around whining, but at least we include cheese with our whine!) which gets back to Cookie, who promptly says "oh, THAT'S easy to fix! you simply use...blah blah product..." !!
So today I'm in the shower looking at my knees thinking, 'OMG, I have such ugly knees!' They are so rough compared to the rest of my skin - either I've been praying too hard (not likely!) or scrubbing too many floors (also not likely - just ask my hubby!) but how do knees GET that way?? With SHORTS season upon us - yikes! And of course, I'm absolutely certain that everyone who sees me from now through Labor Day will lazer-focus their eyes immediately on my knees, unless I do something about them pronto!
I look around the shower and zero in on my Sally Hansen La Cross foot smoothing disk, thinking 'if it works on rough heels it should be fine to smooth rough knees!' Good thinking! So I try it, first gingerly, then with more pressure, and it does a surprisingly good job! I was surprised, but then shouldn't have been, since many products can have cross uses. And this particular smoothing disk, designed for feet, has rave reviews for being the best of class at such a low price.
Perhaps you are also in the Rough Knees Club - I really can't be the ONLY one! - if so I am going to suggest this tool. (And I'm also going to suggest that you NOT use your foot file, which I have tried in the past, with bad results... involving bleeding and scabbing...) And let's also hear if Cookie has any other recommendation, perhaps a real product in this category, to address the problem of ugly knees (or less dramatically: rough knee skin) - I will not bend my knees until I hear back, so don't keep me standing too long!!
Ever (?) straight-legged,
- Dolley
So today I'm in the shower looking at my knees thinking, 'OMG, I have such ugly knees!' They are so rough compared to the rest of my skin - either I've been praying too hard (not likely!) or scrubbing too many floors (also not likely - just ask my hubby!) but how do knees GET that way?? With SHORTS season upon us - yikes! And of course, I'm absolutely certain that everyone who sees me from now through Labor Day will lazer-focus their eyes immediately on my knees, unless I do something about them pronto!
I look around the shower and zero in on my Sally Hansen La Cross foot smoothing disk, thinking 'if it works on rough heels it should be fine to smooth rough knees!' Good thinking! So I try it, first gingerly, then with more pressure, and it does a surprisingly good job! I was surprised, but then shouldn't have been, since many products can have cross uses. And this particular smoothing disk, designed for feet, has rave reviews for being the best of class at such a low price. Perhaps you are also in the Rough Knees Club - I really can't be the ONLY one! - if so I am going to suggest this tool. (And I'm also going to suggest that you NOT use your foot file, which I have tried in the past, with bad results... involving bleeding and scabbing...) And let's also hear if Cookie has any other recommendation, perhaps a real product in this category, to address the problem of ugly knees (or less dramatically: rough knee skin) - I will not bend my knees until I hear back, so don't keep me standing too long!!
Ever (?) straight-legged,
- Dolley
Dolley, -- knees! Geez! I am definitely worried about us!! Just today, since it has been raining in this God forsaken state for just about a month - yes, a month, no sugarcoating this crap - I decided that I would pamper myself a bit with a bath in my love tub. (Well, Helio really wanted to be invited into this self-indulgent spa setting, but I have a policy, only one loofah to a tub, if you get my drift. No fraternizing with the staff.)
During this spa time, I had an opportunity to do a thorough assessment of my limbs and wouldn't you believe it, Dolley, but I was thinking that my thighs were 
feeling a bit lumpy, bumpy, rough and ready. Maybe it's because I've been using my leftover facial moisturizers on my lower half and they just weren't doing the trick to keep all four of my limbs soft and smooth. Over in my neglected spa products basket was Bath and Body Works, True Blue Spa, I'm in the Mood for Scrub. It's one of those products that was overlooked in the last months, but now it has been resurrected front and forward to a regular staple in my summer buffing, smoothing routine. This is a great sudsing skin scrub! So I went to town scrubbing away my blues. It's amazing how a good scrub can really get a girl in a good mood.
feeling a bit lumpy, bumpy, rough and ready. Maybe it's because I've been using my leftover facial moisturizers on my lower half and they just weren't doing the trick to keep all four of my limbs soft and smooth. Over in my neglected spa products basket was Bath and Body Works, True Blue Spa, I'm in the Mood for Scrub. It's one of those products that was overlooked in the last months, but now it has been resurrected front and forward to a regular staple in my summer buffing, smoothing routine. This is a great sudsing skin scrub! So I went to town scrubbing away my blues. It's amazing how a good scrub can really get a girl in a good mood.After toweling off, I applied Lac-hydrin Five moisturizing lotion , one of my all time favorite body moisturizers. This stuff really works! So much so that I had actually run out and hadn't noticed. Trying to be economical like my friend Lila, who never purchases a new product until she completely finishes the old one, I decided to use up some of my older products before going out to buy more , hence the lumpy, bumpy problem development mentioned above. The moral of this story is that if you have a tried and true moisturizer, don't go too long without it, even in the name of being frugal, or you too may become rough and ready.
This speaks very highly of Lac-hydrin Five . For me to puchase a product more than once, it has to really perform, and I purchase all the time. I have even encouraged my gardener, Moe, to use it on his rough hands. Moe, a male who definitely isn't metrosexual, now keeps it in his medicine cabinet, next to his Old Spice deodorant. This moisturizer can turn the scaliest creature into a smoooooth operator.
So, Dolley, try these two steps - sudsing skin scrub and great moisturizer - and I guarantee you can wear those just-at-the-knee skirts and you knees will be glistening!
P.S. I just bought a travel bronzer for face and body (found at TJ Maxx for just $3.99!) that I brush on my legs to give them a bit of glow for those special occasions. More about that later.
~ Cookie
Well, Cookie, I only have 3 comments:
1) Hope you're not really blue :( , or I will have to hunt down Helio and get him into that tub with you.
Blue, It has been raining for the entire month of June-ever since I have landed in the boonies.2) Is the moisturizer scentless? Or is Moe's Old Spice start to pick up a girly smell?!?!
Scentless, girl! 3) Will you restock my wardrobe and change all of my shorts (that I mentioned) into cute just-at-the-knee fashion skirts? I could use more of those. Maybe TJ Maxx... that store is great for bargains!
Please no skirts hitting at mid calf - doesn't that remind you of the nuns. At the knee of just slightly above I think is just the right length. I bet some of you are saying, skirts?
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I just purchased some Lac-Hydrin Five to use on my munchkin's sloughing skin after her cast was changed, but your comment about Moe gave me the idea that I should have my farm hand use it. He is a Corn Huskers devotee just out of sheer stubbornness. Looking at his hands one would think he really is a farm hand, but alas, only in his dreams. I keep telling him it doesn't work
at all and I'm going to have him try the Lac Hydrin.
I got a basket of True Blue products from my very non-product sister-in-law and I love them. I can never be without my foot smoother - known as a hoof grinder in my house. My very favorite is the Tweezerman Pedro.
I do like to keep my product line simple and use up what I have before buying more things, not so much from frugality (although that is a side benefit), but from simplicity's sake. I can't stand the clutter of having too many of anything. As simple as I try to keep it, I still think I have too many products.
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