Ashy Elbows

[~Audra~]

My elbows are SO ashy...no matter what i try, they always look like i've been crawling around under the house. My knees aren't this way, just my elbows (i think this is because i wear short sleeves all year and only wear shorts to bed)...

The only thing i haven't tried is using a steel-mesh scrubbing pad (the kind you'd use on dishes.) Even Goop won't work.

any clues, please?

[Glowy]

Cut a lemon in two, and put sugar or sea salt on each half, and really work it into your elbow skin. Follow with a olive oil or a good moistureizer and keep up at it until they are no longer ashen. It works well in the shower or, if you are just sitting around.

[WitchJezebel]

Exfoliating is your friend. I like Glowy's method with the lemon/sugar or salt or buy a scrub (I use Origins) in the shower and when I get out, even though there are oils in the scrub, I use a bit of shea butter lotion on the elbows. I have dry ashy elbows as well and I exfoliate every week in the summer, every other week or so in the cold months. Makes a world of difference for me

[TheWomanMonster]

I'm with the others on this one.
My elbows and knees get crazy rough when I do lots of landscaping and renovation work.

Add a bit of sugar or salt to a squirt of body wash and massage it into the grey-bits to exfoliate, rinse, then moisturize.
Repeat each time you bathe until you have shiny elbows again.

[Gladeflower]

olive oil

[Althae]

My elbows do something similar. They're always really rough feeling, and lotion only seems to help for the moment. >.< Not to mention the lotion kinda stings a lil.

[Meadhbh]

I have the same elbow issues. I find that lotions that have oat meal in them work the most.