I've had good luck with many different brands & types- it seems like the key or common ingredients are shea butter (miraculous) goat's milk lanolin vitamins A & E aloe I've had excellent results using aloe straight from the plant for a lot of problems other than burns. Last week I had an insect bite that turned red, got chapped, flaked, & *itched* like fire. I tried every single remedy in the medicine cabinet with no effect, & then... I accidentally broke off an aloe vera leaf. Figuring I didn't have anything to lose, I squeezed the fluid onto the spot & the itch stopped immediately & the place started to heal.

Ruthieg...I can't answer for Michelle...but I can tell you that I, personally, wasted large sums of money trying every lotion/cream/salve that was recommended by a pharmacist and/or dermatologist. The insidious thing about eczema and psoriasis is that not everything works for everybody and recommendations from real live sufferers are my best sources for tried and true products so I return the informational kindness forward when I'm able. This is a wonderfully helpful forum for those in need of actual experience info and I, for one, hope it continues to be for those in need. Anne

Was going to post what Mary C said but saw she already had. Unfortunately I see people still don't understand or perhaps don't want to.. Cetyl alcohol is used in most lotions. Even the priciest ones. It is an emollient. Can even be used e as a lubricant in mechanical applications. Isopropyl alcohol is an entirely different thing. It evaporate quickly and ids drying. This reminds me of the fear of the words gluten (glue) and sulfate (sulfur) in products. You have to check the actual chemistry and real science before you panic. They mean several things in different products.

My thought is why? Why do you want to leave your lotion sitting out? I'm not saying you shouldn't - to each their own. I'm just saying rather than find a pretty bottle, I would just put the lotion back in the bathroom (or wherever you keep it). It's just one more thing sitting out. I really don't understand things like lotion, tissues, etc. all over the house. My MIL keeps a box of tissue (at all times) in her kitchen. If I'm home and need a tissue, I go to one of the bathrooms and get a tissue. I use my tissue in the bathroom too. (Maybe TMI, but I think nose-blowing and other such things need to be done in private LOL and definitely not in the kitchen.) But back to your question. Each evening/morning I go through my routine, cleansing, deoderant, teeth brushing, lotion, perfume, whatever it is depending where I am going and what I am doing, but I do that in the bathroom or bedroom and then I put those items away. I do have some foot cream in my bedroom - and as someone else mentioned, that goes into a drawer in my nightstand. To me it is just easier and then I do not have all that "stuff" sitting out.