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What’s your favorite topical OTC moisturizer that you recommend, and why?

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What’s your favorite topical OTC moisturizer that you recommend?

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Dermatology · University of California San Francisco Medical School
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There is no easy answer to this question as recommendations for moisturizers are quite patient and location specific and depend on degrees of dryness. The best moisturizer is one that feels good to the individual patient and is one that he/she will then use. For example, someone with mild facial dry...

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Dermatology · Case Western Reserve University
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For papulosquamous diseases like psoriasis, petrolatum-based products work well, in part by decreasing reflection from the scale of UVB in sunlight. For everyone else, moisturizing is cosmetic and a personal, rather than a medical decision. On crusted skin in dermatitis, moisturizers may promote add...

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