How come dry skin doesn’t absorb moisture from showers and continually stays dry, but lotion helps?

Question

Like the title explains, why does dry skin only seem to retain moisture with lotion?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Looks like the question has already been answered, but if you have chronically dry skin, try putting more fats and oils into your diet or at least supplement with some fish oil / Borage oil and maybe some biotin.