let us be calm and wise

If you haven't tried calendula cream or lotion, I can recommend it for dry skin. It seems to have an actual healing effect rather than just kind of plastering the skin down and making it feel smooth. Jason makes a cream in a jar, and California Baby makes a (terrifically expensive) diaper cream that I used in desperation for a while. There's also a lotion available at co-ops that says something like "First Aid" on it, but I don't recall the brand.

P.