There are other ways to buff away flakes without the manual scrubbing: enter chemical exfoliants. Unlike physical exfoliants, ...

While it’s not the sexiest topic, for runners, dry, cracked heels can be more than a nuisance—they can dampen your weekly mileage. Small fissures in the skin can deepen and become painful cracks, ...

A second patient, a 25-year-old woman, was treated for ichthyosis vulgaris and hyperkeratosis of both heels. She presented with multiple painful fissures and hyperkeratosis of the posterior heels ...

Cracked heels or heel fissures are cut wounds and effect the surface level. When these cracks deepen, they cause infections. With excessive pressure on the heels and the skin being dry in that ...