Grandma's Home Remedies » Dry Skin, Skin

Sometimes, the elbows don’t receive as much tender loving care as other body parts because of their location. They also undergo everyday stress when propped up on wooden desks, chair arms, and dining room tables. This kind of wear and tear along with certain medical conditions could benefit from home remedies for dry elbows. Causes [...]

The bottom of your feet take a lot of punishment throughout the day – as they are responsible for making sure you safely get from point A to point B. Because of their constant use, the feet can become dry and cracked (especially in the wintertime), leaving behind an unpleasant reminder on your heels. To [...]

A handful of internal and external factors can cause a scalp to become dry. When too dry, the lack of moisture causes hair to look lifeless, thin and weak. By knowing common signs and making a few lifestyle changes, you can quickly get back on a healthy track. Try bypassing over-the-counter products and become familiar [...]

Naturally, the surface of the skin holds a certain amount of water. However, when this water content decreases, the skin becomes dry, itchy, and painful. Chapped hands can affect anyone when under the proper circumstances. Luckily, there are home remedies for chapped hands that can help ease symptoms, as well as prevent the condition in [...]

If you participate in competitive sports or carry around a little extra weight, you face an increased chance of experiencing friction against the skin. The end result is skin irritation called chafing, which can turn into quite a painful problem. To encourage healing and soothe symptoms, you should consider learning a few home remedies for [...]

Nearly everyone has dealt with dehydrated skin at some point in his or her life. Dry skin often occurs on the face, cheeks, sides of stomach, lower arms, thighs, legs and chest. Usually, skin hydration is needed during the wintertime when there is less humidity. If skin is severely dehydrated, it can scale and crack. [...]

You don’t have to be in the sun all day to have an issue with peeling skin. Interestingly, every 28 days, the outer layer of our skin is completely replaced by a new one. Many different factors contribute to this change, including levels of hydration, friction, exposure to the sun, and other aspects of the [...]

Mostly striking older adults and people with compromised immune systems, shingles erupts when individuals battle stress, injury, certain drugs, and other factors. The infection is actually associated with chickenpox, and produces some of the same symptoms. To treat blisters and other annoyance associated with the condition, it’s suggested to become familiar with home remedies for [...]

The wintertime creates weather conditions that wreak havoc on skin, as dropping temperatures and humidity affect the air. Your skin is robbed of vital moisture and to make matters worse – windy days encourage a whole new crop of irritating symptoms to develop. Protect your skin and combat weather changes by embracing home remedies for [...]

There’s nothing more embarrassing than meeting someone for the first time and you have little white flakes dancing on your shoulders. Dandruff is a common scalp condition characterized by itching and flaking of the skin. Although it’s not life threatening, dandruff often becomes an embarrassing reflection of your personal hygiene in the eyes of onlookers. [...]