When
we moved from our baseboard-heated house to our forced-hot air-condo I didn’t
notice all that much difference in heat source, other than the fact that we
were now using gas as opposed to oil, at about 1/3 of the cost.
This
year, though, the Mohave-dry air was taking a toll as early as December, when
my lips felt as though I’d just spent 6 months floating on a raft in the South
Pacific. It reached a point where it was almost difficult to smile, not what
you need when you have Christmas and grandchildren at your door.
My
feet are a whole other issue. Still, I can’t completely blame our arid
environment; I imagine I have age to thank for the cracks and callouses that I
battle year-round. I can always count on at least one birthday or Christmas
gift to be some whiz-bang cream or maybe a motorized foot sander, all of which
I’m happy to try.
The
good news is that we’re now in Florida, with fresh air – and humid fresh air at
that, even in the winter. My lips feel great and my feet are much happier. Of
course, my hair is four times its normal size, but you can’t have everything.
Oh I get it, I get it!! I got two different types of lip balm for stocking stuffers! Summer time, or southern vacations means giant hair for me too!-Jenn
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Florida is good for your skin, especially lips and feet and it looks like you are well stocked in the foot beauty treatments department.
ReplyDeleteA long time ago I saw a woman with very dry, scaly elbows. (probably in the 70's) I started using lotion, slathering every day after my shower, on my arms, and my feet. That daily routine has eliminated the dryness in both of those places. I'm glad I started that way back when. I can wear my flip flops without worrying about it.
ReplyDeleteI have calluses that are decades deep, but no cracking thank goodness. I've got one of those battery operated callus sanders, but it doesn't seem to do much. I even bought the "stronger" sanding wheel for tough calluses and I can use it for quite a while with little to no effect. what I do now is soak the feet and when they're all soft I use a scalpel type blade and scrape at the calluses just like the podiatrist did the one time I went to see one. Effective, but probably more so if I did it more often. Feet are one of those things that get neglected far too easily.
ReplyDeleteYou can get fairly decent humidifiers for furnaces now. In past years, they didn't work very well, but out present one works well enough. It's attached tot he furnace.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I lived in Colorado you could leave a piece of bread on the counter and in a few hours you would have toast. Dry air is now a rarity, here in the Pacific Northwest. I always use chapstick, though, for my lips, since I don't wear lipstick. :-)
ReplyDeleteI live in high humidity and when I go places up north and the inhabitants are complaining about how humid it is, I'm slathering lip stuff on my chapped lips.
ReplyDeleteAGe brings dry skin. It is just one more maintenance activity.
ReplyDeleteI am at that age where I put lotion on my feet at night and then cover them with warm socks:)
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