Have tried expensive Nivea for Men (useless), olive oil, garlic olive oil, cut raw garlic then wiped on
skin (ouch, stung), butter, margarine, lavender (
skin, relax) and Tea tree (bleach) essential oil(s), all for several days in a row. (All useless) Doctor gave me Epaderm ointment. (I.e. no colour, no perfume... as organic and free-range as any ointment could be.) Much improved with the Epaderm (and squeezy hand grips for circulation can only have helped).