Sun and Dry Skin

If you’re a sun worshipper who is always “working on your tan,” you’re also drying out your skin and increasing your risk of developing wrinkles, age spots, and skin cancer (melanoma), warns Frank Parker, M.D. “Just as the sun dries wet clothes hanging on a clothesline, it dries out the outer layer of the skin,” [...]

Dry Skin Home Remedies

Everyone occasionally suffers from dry skin, according to dermatologist James Shaw, M.D., chief of the Division of Dermatology at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center and associate clinical professor of medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University, both in Portland. “Dry skin is largely influenced by genetics and by climate and other drying factors like taking [...]