I've some type of sensitive skin or whatever.
After a two-hours workout my feet & hands are so dehydrated that look like "deflated", my face look dull and the skin is dryed and flaky. The body skin is simply dryed, not a big deal ,except the front lower leg and thoracic where often there're zone of flaky/hitchy skin.
I currently go 3x/week, I've not found still a definitive solution to reduce as possible the problem if possible at all.
I've for sure over average trouble skin condition but you that go 6+/week have you any sort of fish-like skin or some skin trouble is present and what do you do to reduce/fix it ?
regards.
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I was having the ole' chlorine, itchy, smelly skin problem and found something that works pretty good for me.
I wash down with a Loofa sponge and whatever body soap you want, scrub good, rinse off. I then use Baby Oil Gel and rub it all over (what I can reach) and rub it in real good. Done. Towel off. Seems to work for me.
I echo the above loofah to scrub off chlorine and any icky skin. I prefer shower gel to soap since it seems to leave less residue but that could be all in my head.
I towel off lightly the second I get out of the shower and immediately put on lotion while my skin is still damp- heavy duty cream in the winter, lotion-y stuff in the summer. I've historically had dry and generally ill-behaved all my life and this routine works for me.
If things are as bad as you say, maybe a trip to a dermatologist might be in order. If it's that dry and flaky you could have a condition like an allergy or infection of some kind.
Try taking a tablespoon of cod liver oil, preferably of pharmaceutical quality (e.g., Carlson's or Arctic Naturals), every day for a couple of weeks and see if that doesn't improve your skin generally. Of course, it won't hurt your heart health either!
P.S. It doesn't have to taste "fishy"—they have orange- and lemon-flavored as well.
I use a mixture of olive oil and sesame oil with a couple of drops of lemon oil which I mix myself. I use it while showering. I shower, rub the oil on myself(not too much) and soap myself after that. A thin layer of oil remains on my skin.
Thanks.
Well maybe I've a little overstate my problembut it look like everybody else around me was waterproof, with great looking skin, and I leave the locker room always late to apply lotion/oil/moisturises on my face/body to reduce desquamation, dry skin.
My dermatologist tell me that it's not a big deal and there's no magic formula to cure it, Stress can be a major factor together to genetics, so maybe some fresh idea can improve my result.
