I need help with my extreme dry skin. Ideas?

I have such extreme dry skin in the winter. I have tried lots of things. I bought Aveeno Colloidal Oil (oatmeal oil) for in the shower, I bought Aveena Anti-Itch lotion with Cooling Menthol. Neither are doing enough. I have a sugar scrub which makes my skin soft and I thought it might help with exfoliating, because maybe that was the problem, but it hasn’t helped.

I am so itchy, I scratch my legs and arms constantly, even my stomach itches. The only things that don’t itch are my face, arms, back, and feet. Everything else is so itchy and I just can’t stop. I scratch and scratch. I have red marks all over my legs (especially my thighs and shins), red bumps form from all the scratching. Currently I have deeper scratches on my knees from it being so bad I just kept going even when I broke the skin and started to bleed. And then my skin just burns and it feels even worse. There’s no relief!

I need some advice, is there any lotion or cream or ANY product I can try that will help? A friend suggested Gold Bond Medicated lotion but I’m just not sure. That Aveeno stuff was like and its not even half gone (I bought it last year). I just don’t want to needlessly spend money if there’s a proven to work product out there. Or at least one that several people have tried and found relief. I need opinions and very few people I know have this dry of skin.

My next step would be to go see my doctor, except I can’t imagine they’ll have much help for me. I’m not taking any new meds, nothing has changed when it comes to laundry or other soaps. I’m trying to take a shower every other day instead of daily in hopes that would help. I’m using warm not hot water. I am cold almost all the time, and the heater makes the air dry, but I can’t imagine that is doing this extreme of a job on my skin.

I would appreciate any suggestions of products, commercial or natural, your experience with them and the Pros and Cons, and then also a link to the product so I can read about them too.

Thank you so much!
According to Walgreens ( http://www.walgreens.com/store/catalog/Moisturizing/Cocoa-Butter-Vitalizing-Gel-Body-Oil/ID=prod3447883&navCount=0&navAction=push-product ) , the Ingredient List:
Mineral Oil , Hydrogenated Styrene/Butadiene Copolymer , Brazil Nut Seed Oil (- Bertholletia Excelsa) , Sweet Almond Oil (- Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis) , Fragrance

Lists Mineral Oil as the number 1 ingredient. Didn’t you say to completely avoid that? That is the one you mentioned right?

And I’m working on the more water. I try to take a daily vitamin which includes A, C, and E. I eat plenty of fruits and veggies too.
Hmmm Vaseline Cocoa Butter Vitalizing Gel Body Oil got great reviews on TotalBeauty.com

What do you think about the reviewers saying its really greasy and uncomfortable during the day? Do you not have that problem?
Also, does anyone have any thoughts on Vaseline Clinical Therapy lotion?

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