Prep Your Legs to See the Sun With These 13 Exfoliators and Moisturizers Reviewers 60+ Love

Published Apr 3, 2025 8:08 am ET


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As the temperature starts to heat up, it’s time to bring out your shorts. If your legs haven’t seen sunshine since last year, they might need a little extra love and attention before summer’s here. Sloughing away dead skin, dirt, oil and impurities with a good exfoliator can really make a difference in soft skin and prepping your legs for shorts. And you can’t forget about moisturizers too. Yes, they can make you feel and smell good, but they also provide hydration like no other and protect your skin barrier, which is especially important for aging skin.

So, if you haven’t been exfoliating and moisturizing lately, it’s not too late to start incorporating it into your routine. These exfoliators and moisturizers will change your skin’s life. Plus, some of them are on sale.

  1. Make bumpy and red skin disappear with First Aid Beauty’s KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub. Safe for sensitive skin, it exfoliates away dead skin to leave behind a smooth-as-butter surface.
  1. Gentle and lightweight, this Aveeno Brightening Scrub buffs away oil, dead skin cells and impurities to leave behind a smooth, even surface.
  1. Reviewers in their 60s saw significant improvement in their skin in just one week after using this Medix 5.5 Retinol Body Lotion Firming Moisturizer. Created with green tea, vitamin E and shea butter, it reduces the appearance of wrinkles, sagging skin and lines.
  1. Infused with sugar crystals and coconut oil, Ouai’s Scrub improves your skin’s moisture and gets rid of all of the dirt and impurities. Plus, you can also use it on your scalp!
  1. This anti-aging Himalayan Salt Scrub locks in moisture and gives your skin a youthful glow. Reviewers over 60 say that it has reduced the appearance of wrinkles and lines.
  1. Murad’s AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser turns dull dry skin into hydrated and radiant skin, and it’s an Amazon bestseller.
  1. For head-to-toe hydration, apply this Gold Bond Age Renew Lotion. It’s fast-absorbing, lightweight and reduces wrinkles and crepey skin in just 24 hours.
  1. An Amazon bestseller for a reason, this Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion keeps your skin moisturized for 24 hours and is specially formulated with oats for sensitive skin.
  1. Protect your skin’s barrier with this CeraVe Moisturizing Cream. Formulated with essential ceramides and hyaluronic acid, this cream reduced dryness, itchiness and flakiness.
  1. This eos Shea Better Body Lotion smells just like vanilla cake and has seven oils and butters in it. The whipped, lightweight texture goes on smooth and melts into your skin to provide instant hydration.
  1. For hydration that lasts hours and hours, go with this La Roche-Posay Tripe Repair Moisturizing Cream. The fragrance-free lotion restores your skin’s moisture and can be applied daily.
  1. Clinically proven to strengthen your skin barrier and restore hydration, First Aid Beauty’s Intense Hydration Cream leaves your skin feeling better than ever. It’s even safe for sensitive, eczema-prone and KP skin.

  2. Coined “the best that I have ever used” by a reviewer over 60, this Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream works well on oily, dry and sensitive skin. Providing up to 48 hours of hydration, it instantly nourishes and soothes your skin.
Lauryn Jiles

Lauryn Jiles

Author McClatchy Commerce

Lauryn Jiles is a Content Commerce Assistant at McClatchy. She is based in South Carolina and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Lauryn has written for numerous brands and is well-versed in the fashion, beauty, health, and lifestyle verticals. She enjoys yoga, coffee, fashion museums, sushi, and traveling.

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.