cartoon by Gene Blasen
This is a good discussion of the dry, itchy skin many people experience during winters:
It’s Cold and Your Skin Is Suffering. So What Are You Doing to Moisturize?
It begins: IT’S been a challenging winter for people with dry skin. The country has been blasted with Arctic air, making this winter the coldest so far in a decade, according to Scott Stephens, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center. With the cold comes low humidity — sometimes as low as 10 percent — along with moisture-stripping winds that can cause chapped, flaky skin."
This article has some practical (and very inexpensive tips) as well as an interesting multimedia presentation.