this is a very common problem and i see it in men and women and especially in the summertime when our heels tend to show more. so it's important to hydrate your skin. people are great at moisturizing their face but when it gets to their feet they just seem to skip that area. so moisturizing really helps and using a product that is what's called a keratolytic. so your skin is made up of proteins called keratins and lytic means to break that up. so ingredients like urea or lactic acid can help those skin cells become less sticky. and will exfoliate them off a little bit better and then moisturizing really helps. you can soak your feet in a little bit of water and olive oil for about ten minutes and then when your skin is nice and soft and damp you can put an ointment like aquaphor ointment or even just vaseline or even just crisco oil if you like and then put on a sock to help lock that water in and that will help keep your feet soft and smooth.
no matter what pair of shoes i wear my heels get dried and flaky looking. so what's the cure for this?