G16 Skin Repair, Very Dry Skin & Ichthyosis Treatment Cream & Lotion

That's my headline because those were my thoughts as I took a chance on this lotion for my 5yr old son and saw the results. He has ichthyosis vulgaris. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that his major effected areas are his legs & scalp. He does not have it in his hands and feet as I understand others who suffer from this do. Still he does have the dry "river bed" look to his torso and upper arms and his skin is rough due to the dry skin hanging around and not sloughing off. His forearms get scales but not as dramatic as his legs.Okay, that covered... I followed the directions for children and used 1 part SR lotion to 2 parts aloe based lotion. I used Southwest Sunshine's Herbal Gel for that. I would actually use the gel all over, let that soak in and then use our mixed SR & gel to cover the rest of him. I only did his legs first just to see how it went. We did it morning and night. It has a lovely light lemon smell to it. Much better smelling than prescription stuff we've tried (yucky steroids). He did tell me it would get tingly/itchy so I'd rub it in quickly and place his pants right over it so he could scratch a bit over the fabric. That feeling he said only lasted a couple of minutes. I have no experience with it on my skin to compare to what he said as 1) I didn't want to waste a drop of it absorbing into my hands so I wore gloves and 2) they say wash it off if that's not an effected area and gloves made sense to avoid that.Holy crap if those scales didn't start to come off like magic! In about 10 days we really started to see it flaking. In the bath tub the water was full of little flakes! Which never happens. We could scrub and scrub and it was nothing like this. Anyway, day 20 and it's like all new skin! Sure we can see up close that he has a bit of a "pattern" to his skin, but now if he hasn't had lotion put on, it just looks like lightly dry skin. We're maintaining it with the Southwest Sunshine products, using SR only twice a week to keep it up. Probably perfect for a kid, not sure about an adult.This lotion was been worth every penny it cost to air mail it here to the US!! We're now applying the SR lotion to his trunk and arms - we're in the peeling stage, and it's amazing already how much better it's all looking. I do not have the condition myself, but as a Mother, being able to touch your child and feel that baby soft skin little kids are "supposed" to have, literally makes me tear up to feel that on him! We told him applying lotion will be like brushing your teeth - we have to do it every day to keep it healthy. It's been hard for him to understand why he's different, but now it won't show. So when it gets warmer out and he wants to wear shorts, this year he won't notice he's different. This year, no one will ask or notice. This year he can just be a kid and not worry. And that's why we've affectionately renamed the lotion from SR standing for "Skin Repair" to "Super Rad". Because if you ask my 5 year old, that's what is is - Super Rad Lotion :) One GRATEFUL Mama with tears in my eyes as I type! Buy this, you won't be sorry!

The first time I bought this product it took a month and a half to arrive and I bought it from the original manufacture, thought I'd done got ripped off but it finally arrived now I can buy off Amazon and sometimes they have it here in the US, Don't know why the FDA won't approve this so we could get it through our insurance because it works great. Might be a little bit of a burn for the little ones right off but I'm sure they could get through it too enjoy life and not feel the hurt of ichthyosis in many different ways!

I have had ichthyosis all of my life,(45 years) and have tried every cream out there over the years with the only result was feeling greasy. I learned about this product online, and at the behest of my wife, purchased the g16 with very skeptical hopes of anything different than any other products. I've been using it for 10 days now and it's incredible, the scales are falling off everywhere, in the bed linens, the shower, and the skin underneath is smoother than I've ever known it to be It's a bit expensive at 80 dollars a bottle, and it stings a bit for the first couple of minutes after applying, but so far, for me anyway, this lotion has worked great on me and I have already ordered more. Looking forward to maybe wearing a pair of shorts out in public for the first time in my life.

I had been using item since August 2019 to treat ichthyosis which I have had for many years. I will describe the results of using G16 in terms of pre-March 2020 and post-March 2020 (era of pandemic). This is because it seems the formula changed after March 2020. The bottle dimensions changed, and the lotion I received was much thinner than previous orders.Prior to March 2020, I could see improvement using the lotion twice a day. I can categorize the improvement as about 60% improvement. I even sent the manufacturer before and after pictures since they promised in writing that I could get one bottle half price for doing so. Got nada - nada - from them, despite sending the pictures again to them. That did not deter me.However, for the order that was received about May 2020 (I ordered 2 bottles for about $160), I noticed the bottle shape had been redesigned, and that the lotion consistence was now very thin - almost like coconut water (so it seemed to me). The instructions stated to shake the bottle well before each use. I did so, but that action did not improve the consistency of the lotion.Most of the good reviews for this product are BEFORE March 2020, before disruptions as a result of the pandemic. After March 2020, the positive reviews seem to decline.From my experience, not only was the post-March 2020 product TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE, but use of the lotion actually made my skin worse than before, substantially worse. I had read some other reviewer stating that their skin condition got worse after using the G16 lotion; I was skeptical at the time and couldn't imagine how that could be possible. But from my experience, I can relate very much to what they stated. Sadly, similar thing happened to me. To pay $80 x 2 for that piece of junk is an absolute travesty, IMHO. I am baffled as to how the "updated" product passed Qual control, due to the rigorous tests supposedly performed during QC.

I was very sceptical about this lotion because I had used other products that promised the same type of results, but didn't. I have used this for 2 weeks and I have noticed a big difference is the scaliness of my legs.I think I did use a little too much pressure when exfoliating the first time, Be gentle. I really like this lotion and will reorder. I just wish is wasn't so expensive!! You will get improvement in your skin texture.