This stuff is amazing. I bought it out of desperation the night I was throwing a big party. My skin was so dry it was flaking off. Gross. There was no way I could leave it the way it was or put on makeup over it. But I put on some of this, waited 10 minutes (per instructions) and the flakies were GONE. Completely. Same thing happened the second time I tried it, a couple weeks later. It's miracle gel - forget Creme de la Mer.