Olay Body Wash Saves the Day (And Gives You a Chance to Win a $50 Gift Card!

If you need to know what season it is, you don't have to look at a calendar or even out your window. You can just look at Alexis' hands. She of short stature perpetually battles dry skin in the winter. While she gets it everywhere, the back of her right hand is the most reliable means of figuring out the season. If there is a rough patch of very dry skin there, welcome to winter! Now please dip my kid in a vat of lotion!

Except that lotion hasn't really been cutting it. She's six years old now and that patch of dry skin has appeared every single winter. And yet with all that time to figure out how to make it go away, we hadn't. It just magically disappears on its own in April or May as the temperatures rise and humidity sets in.

We tried reducing the number of baths we gave her. We tried every lotion under the sun. We went through several prescriptions from the dermatologist. Nothing. No improvement.

Then, in what I would have thought would be an unrelated turn of events, I recieved a bottle of Olay Ultra Moisture Body Wash to review. I originally planned to stick the bottle in my shower, but then I looked at Alexis. And I looked at the bottle. And I looked back to Alexis. And then a tiny little lightbulb went on over my head and I thought, "What if we use a SERIOUS body wash for her baths?"

We have been using "kid-friendly" body washes for her. You know, the ones with the cute packages that make no claims of doing anything other than making your kid smell like a bowl of strawberries. The Olay body wash contains more than a jar of moisturizer and says that it will make skin feel clean and smooth.

And now I feel like an idiot for not thinking of the idea sooner. While the dry patch on Alexis' hand hasn't been completely cured after two weeks of using Olay Ultra Moisture Body Wash, it is better. For serious. And the rest of her? SO MUCH BETTER. Her legs aren't ashy anymore and she doesn't complain about her belly being itchy. The jar of moisturizer in the Olay Ultra Moisture Body Wash seems to be doing more for alleviating her dry skin than any lotion has, and BONUS! It's far more convenient to combine those steps.

Have you ever tried dipping a cold, wet kid in a vat of lotion? It doesn't go so well. The whining about being cold is why we often just skipped lotion. Now we don't have to. HUZZAH!

I like having five minutes added into my day, especially when it means my kid gets to be happier and more comfortable.

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