Hello. I'm very new to this board. This is my first post. I have had KP for as long as I can remember. I'm 29. I just barely in the last couple of weeks starting researching it online and figured out that it was KP. I have it bad on the backs of my upper arms and backs of my thighs. Those are the only spots I have it and I swear I have tried all kinds of lotion.
Well after reading up on KP I decided to order some of this lotion to see if it would help. Granted I've only been using it for 4 days but it makes me itchy and seems to make my skin drier. Anyone had any experince with this?
Thanks in advance
Karna

Hi,

I use Carmol-40, which sounds like it's similar - a 40 percent urea solution, which is meant to soften the skin. Honestly, it has not been the miracle cure for me that I wish it could me, but my skin gets worse when I *don't* use it, so something there must be working.

I find that if I apply the cream to freshly shaven legs, it makes it itch like crazy. Could that be why you find your cream to itch?

I don't particularly have a problem with the dryness, though. However, it seems to work better if I apply it directly after my shower to exfoliated skin - I use a bufpuf, but different people find good results with pumice sponges, sea salt scrubs, etc. Different people, different results

Hope this helps... and good luck.

I picked up a small tube of carmol20 (I think, maybe it was 40), and I've been using it for just a little over a week. I do not have any stinging or itching. It's keeping my kp in check, but I don't feel like it's really doing anything else. I put it on after my shower, and by mid-morning, I'm feeling a little dry. Fortunately, it's humid here right now, so that helps me not feel so tight. I'm using it until the Alpha Hydrox stuff I ordered gets here. I did read somewhere that Alpha hydroxies (glycomics) are stronger than Betas (salisylics). Maybe this will just strip away a few layers of skin!

I'll keep that in mind, Allison. I ordered and received some aha products from Alpha Hydrox. Enhanced lotion with 10% Glycolic Acid and Body wash with 4%. I'll give it a few weeks and give all ya'll my results. The lotion has a slight smell, not bad, just barely noticeable. Can't smell it now at all. We'll see. Devil to Neutrogena for stopping production of Skin Smoothing lotion!

hey, don't take this the wrong way, because i'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but do you work for arbonne? because i am really interested in buying some of their products after seeing how much it has helped you, but i am skeptical. if you search the net for arbonne there is all these articles about how they run scams to sell there products. so sorry, i f you do not represent them, i hope you can understand me being hesitant, b/c i have wasted so much money on products that have not helped me.