Can somebody please tell me........

The same reason I moisturise my feet (and elbows) for myself. Nobody looks at them but they feel good!
And you never know your luck, one day someone may have a peek!

I think this is a very elbow-fetishist statement frankly

I was tempted to ask why bother to wipe your bum; but no that would be silly!

I have had the maddest of days with lots of wee boys leaping round my house while an electrician deafened us all drilling holes here and there, while I got through a box of tissues with my streaming cold. I think I have lots the plot now and will retire gracefully. Atchoo!

It's for the same reason that we wear clean knickers. In case we get run over by a bus. Any doctor would refuse to treat you if you had rough skin on your elbows!

I often moisturise my elbows.

Where else am I going to smear the surplus hand lotion that has shot out of the tube even though it was just a gentle squeeze?

pensions to use one of Mr P's phrases "that'll be it then"!

If that's the case, I'd better take a sander to my heels.

Phoenix if I did that I would be even shorter!

My elbows get moisturised with the rest of the very dry skin on my arms.

Mr P once bought me a foot sander for Christmas, of course that was not the same year that he gave me a digital air compressor, or the one that he presented me with a beautifully wrapped toilet seat.

After all, one can have too much of a good thing!

I only ever moisturize my right elbow, as the left one is siky smooth.

Why do we moisturise our elbows? Well, why not? .

Well it will be summer soon with more bits on show. So it's best to get ready.

To use up the mountains of excess moisturiser we all have in our bathrooms?

Exactly Merlotgran use up the excess moisturiser we have on our hands. My elbows have had some very expensive cream on them from time to time.

I do it to use up the 3 bottles of moisturiser I bought for myself and 2 DDs but then kept it all. I don't know why I did that.

Phoenix. He spoils you. ???

Love all of these!
Looking at the endless bottles and pots of gunk I have managed to not get through over the years, I must be becoming dry old stick ? insect, so if I start now , whether or not I am a vision of loveliness by summer, I should at least have more room in the bathroom.

Phoenix, hope that was just his sense of humour? Please say yes ....

I thought elbows got naturally moisturised through hard work. I remember my brother telling me with horror that our mother said she'd put a lot of elbow grease into the cake she'd just made!

I use Body Shop Hemp hand cream for the rough skin on my heels and it works a treat, probably it will do the same for elbows.

Never mind what we have in our bathrooms! You should see the collection on my dressing table. On second thoughts, I'd rather you didn't.

Just checked my elbows cetraban from doc does trick feet silky smooth ditto knees are fine but can anyone explain on left buttock where it falls over back of leg is a dry patch of skin,friction? Wear and tear? No idea....but please can I have some sympathy for the nasty boil I have on lets call it no mans land and a 10 day course of antibiotics and the prospect of a lancing in due course....sorry for lowering tone but want to share my pain

Uurgh this thread is getting nasty. Think I'll go back to the peaceful politics threads. Can't cope with too much reality!

One of my elbows is rougher than the other (the left one!) - and I realised I lean on that one when I am reading threads on GN

Just off to exfoliate and moisturise!

If your left buttock is falling over the back of your leg downtoearth I can recommend some buttock tightening exercises
which I should practise more myself.