I’ve been working on this post for a couple of years now, and I’m out of anything interesting to say tonight finally ready to post about it.
I have keratosis pilaris, or ‘chicken skin’, on the backs of my upper arms. It’s an unsightly, but harmless condition where I have rashy-looking bumps. Apparently there’s nothing you can do to cure it, but there are things you can do to manage ti.. I tried daily scrubbing for a while, but that only aggravated it. A long, long time ago I bought some lotion with salicylic acid in it, used it for a few weeks, then stopped. (I’m a big quitter.)
Perhaps you remember the shameful-amount-of-toiletries-in-the-bathroom post? Well, though I still (shamefully) have most of those things, I used up the salicylic acid lotion! I even had to buy another one, and guess what? It works.
I know that it works because I didn’t use it in July when we were on vacation, and the bumps came back with a vengeance. (I can’t believe that that is how you spell vengeance, but my spell-checker says so. Hmmph.)
So in conclusion, my arms are slightly less bumpy. If you suffer from KP, you, too, can have slightly less bumpy arms in two years. Call now! Operators are standing by!