G16 Skin Repair Cream - Intensive Moisturizing Lotion for Very Dry Skin & Ichthyosis Treatment | Dermatologist Recommended for Eczema, Psoriasis & Cracked Skin Care

That's my headline because those were my thoughts as I took a chance on this lotion for my 5yr old son and saw the results. He has ichthyosis vulgaris. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that his major effected areas are his legs & scalp. He does not have it in his hands and feet as I understand others who suffer from this do. Still he does have the dry "river bed" look to his torso and upper arms and his skin is rough due to the dry skin hanging around and not sloughing off. His forearms get scales but not as dramatic as his legs.Okay, that covered... I followed the directions for children and used 1 part SR lotion to 2 parts aloe based lotion. I used Southwest Sunshine's Herbal Gel for that. I would actually use the gel all over, let that soak in and then use our mixed SR & gel to cover the rest of him. I only did his legs first just to see how it went. We did it morning and night. It has a lovely light lemon smell to it. Much better smelling than prescription stuff we've tried (yucky steroids). He did tell me it would get tingly/itchy so I'd rub it in quickly and place his pants right over it so he could scratch a bit over the fabric. That feeling he said only lasted a couple of minutes. I have no experience with it on my skin to compare to what he said as 1) I didn't want to waste a drop of it absorbing into my hands so I wore gloves and 2) they say wash it off if that's not an effected area and gloves made sense to avoid that.Holy crap if those scales didn't start to come off like magic! In about 10 days we really started to see it flaking. In the bath tub the water was full of little flakes! Which never happens. We could scrub and scrub and it was nothing like this. Anyway, day 20 and it's like all new skin! Sure we can see up close that he has a bit of a "pattern" to his skin, but now if he hasn't had lotion put on, it just looks like lightly dry skin. We're maintaining it with the Southwest Sunshine products, using SR only twice a week to keep it up. Probably perfect for a kid, not sure about an adult.This lotion was been worth every penny it cost to air mail it here to the US!! We're now applying the SR lotion to his trunk and arms - we're in the peeling stage, and it's amazing already how much better it's all looking. I do not have the condition myself, but as a Mother, being able to touch your child and feel that baby soft skin little kids are "supposed" to have, literally makes me tear up to feel that on him! We told him applying lotion will be like brushing your teeth - we have to do it every day to keep it healthy. It's been hard for him to understand why he's different, but now it won't show. So when it gets warmer out and he wants to wear shorts, this year he won't notice he's different. This year, no one will ask or notice. This year he can just be a kid and not worry. And that's why we've affectionately renamed the lotion from SR standing for "Skin Repair" to "Super Rad". Because if you ask my 5 year old, that's what is is - Super Rad Lotion :) One GRATEFUL Mama with tears in my eyes as I type! Buy this, you won't be sorry!