you don't know how much better that makes me feel. I thought i was the only one in the world that suffered with dry cracked skin ingrained with dirt that you can never get rid of even using brillo pads, punice stone, or soaking for hours, it just doesn't shift. I remember years ago i went on a ..ho....hol...hilo...that's it holiday, and two weeks in the ocean seemed to get rid of it all, but within a week back to work....