A lotion should be a lotion.

This stuff is a paste. This stuff will barely pump out of the bottle. According to the bottle, it has 7 enhanced moisturizers, with soothing Aloe. It's not particularly soothing. It says it penetrates skin fast. It doesn't. It says it heals severely dry, rough, and irritated skin. I only applied it for the first time last night, and I'm not particularly impressed, but it might do that. It claims to have vitamins A, C, & E, but I'm not sure those are particularly useful in a topical application; aren't vitamins a nutritional requirement? I don't eat with my skin. And the bottle says it's non-greasy. Yeah, but pasty is just about as bad.

Avoiding East 30

I was trying to avoid the traffic on East 30, which is normally hellacious, but is much worse during the back-to-school shopping. (If it's tourist season, shouldn't that mean we should be able to shoot them?) I can never remember which outlet mall I need to go to. In any case, the Bath & Body Works, sister store to Victoria's Secret and the Limited, has lotion in handy tubes. They're normally $4 for a tube, half the price of the CVS stuff, but currently, they are on sale for 2 for $5.

The BBW stuff is antibacterial which, it turns out, is fairly useful if you have a severe skin problem. It calms the skin. There are pesky little beads in the lotion, which I assume has something to do with the antibacterial action, but they're not the worst thing in the world to deal with. There are a variety of fragrances available, all of which sound like they'd be wonderful on a woman, and none of which are something I want to smell like, but then, the smell of Cornhusker's Lotion doesn't turn me on, either. Shouldn't they have a clone of the Old Spice fragrance available, "because a man should smell like a man"?

Oh, well, it's worth living with. The plastic tubes make it impossible to get the last of the lotion out, but if you take an x-acto knife or something similar to the head of the tube when nothing more will come out, you can squeeze the body of the tube and get one big application or two smaller applications out.

Last Summer

Seems to me that they were on sale for 5 for $15 last year, so the price has actually dropped. Unless I'm mistaken and they were 5 for $10 or $12. Mad Cow Syndrome, you know. It took me about a year to use 5 tubes all up. Now, you realize that as a man, I don't apply the stuff five times a day in order to make my hands feel moist and touchable; I just don't give a hoot. On the other hand, I had something that, if it wasn't MRSA, it was something else pretty nasty, and the antibacterial action of the lotion did a nice job of keeping it under control, so initially, I was using it 43 times a day to keep the itch under control. There's an anti-itch lotion available, kinda pricey, but this stuff is nicer to use, and works longer. The anti-itch stuff from the drugstore only stops the itching for about 20 minutes.

Just don't waste your money on the CVS crap. It says to compare the product to "Gold Bond Ultimate Healing Lotion" and if it's a comparable product, you might want to avoid that stuff, too.

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