Angry skin.

Grrr! This is what my skin is telling me... the winter really wrecks havoc on my already pale and dry skin. To top it off, I'm very sensitive to many so-called beneficial products. I pretty much have to stay away from anything from your regular drugstore assortment, and I refuse to pay for ritzy products.

That being said, I have found the best, sensibly priced and effective moisturizer- and no, I'm not getting paid to say this!

Shikai Borage Dry Skin Therapy is available at stores like Whole Foods and Sprouts Farmer's Markets, and the hand therapy runs about $10... the larger bottle of body lotions costs approx. $15.

For folks who are sensitive to other products like me, this is a godsend. Other hand creams literally feel like they're burning through me skin and make me itch so bad, I have to wash it off... but this hand cream actually starts healing the redness and cracking soon after massaging it into my hands and arms.