Dry skin, in Aajonus's framework, is not a surface condition of the skin itself, it is a systemic indicator of fat deficiency and internal desiccation throughout the entire body. When the skin appears dry, flaking, cracking, or leathery, it is a visible signal that the deeper tissues, the bones, connective tissue, joints, glands, and organs, are also depleted of fat and in varying states of dryness and deterioration. The skin is the last organ to receive nutritional supply because everything closer to the digestive tract gets priority. When the skin is visibly dry, the interior of the body is even more deficient.

Aajonus repeatedly and emphatically rejected the conventional medical and popular cultural explanation that dry skin means dehydration, that is, a lack of water. He stated this directly and forcefully: "You are dry from not enough fat, not water." This distinction is foundational to his entire understanding of dry skin and of bodily hydration generally.

He further clarified that even what appears to be extreme dryness, "dry skin like a lizard", is not the same thing as systemic dehydration from water deficiency. The conventional medical framing of dehydration and the hospital practice of putting patients on IVs with sodium chloride and sugar does not address this condition at all. He said: "Ninety percent of the people that the hospital says, oh you're dehydrated, you're not dehydrated. Just the part of the medical industry, doesn't know, doesn't know what's wrong with them. So they'll just say, oh you're dehydrated, put you on an IV... They just distracted your problem with another poison."

The skin, in his understanding, is a living organ that eats, absorbs, and digests nutrients directly. "Skin eats. Your skin can absorb and digest nutrients." This means the skin can receive fat and nourishment both internally, through the diet, particularly through the bloodstream and lymphatic system, and externally, through topical application of appropriate fats.

Dry skin is also a visible diagnostic indicator he used to assess the internal state of a person. He looked specifically at the elbows, knees, and wrists as key diagnostic sites. Dry, ridged, or thickened skin at the elbows indicated cirrhosed (dead, tanned-hide-like) tissue in the arms, shoulders, back, and chest. The wrist joint was the most lubricated joint in the body, and if the skin over the wrist was dry, it indicated that the person was "really heading toward osteoporosis" and that dryness extended throughout the body. He described what he was seeing in dry skin as "dead tissue. It's like tanning a hide inside your body."

He also described dry skin in terms of the internal competition for available fat resources. The glands, organs, and muscles, being closer to the digestive tract, consume fat first and most aggressively. The skin, bones, connective tissue, joints, tendons, cartilage, and arteries are at the end of the supply chain. Even people eating enormous quantities of fat, including people who were 80 pounds overweight on the diet, could still have dry skin because all of the fat was being consumed internally before it could reach the periphery.

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The singular and foundational cause of dry skin, according to Aajonus, is a deficiency of utilizable fat, specifically raw animal fat. He stated: "You are dry from not enough fat, not water." This applies both to internal tissue dryness and to surface skin dryness.

There are multiple ways this fat deficiency manifests:

1. Not eating enough fat at all. People who have been thin all their lives, or who have avoided fat out of conventional dietary fear, are severely depleted of fat reserves throughout all tissues. The organs, glands, and muscles are starving for fat, so any fat consumed is consumed immediately by those tissues before it can reach the skin, bones, or connective tissue.

2. Eating cooked or processed fat that cannot be utilized. Cooked fat is denatured and creates plastic-like toxic byproducts that the body cannot use as lubrication. It contributes to toxicity rather than lubrication. The body cannot absorb, assimilate, or utilize it for the purposes that raw fat serves.

3. The inability to digest fat properly. Even when fat is present in the diet, if the digestive system is compromised, fat may not be broken down and assimilated effectively. Aajonus specifically noted that lemon juice, when added to butter, allows the liver to handle it more easily and pre-digests the fat so rapidly that even the glands and organs cannot absorb all of it, allowing some to reach the skin, connective tissue, and bones.

4. Toxins consuming fat as they move through the skin. Aajonus taught that 90% of bodily toxins are supposed to exit through the skin. As industrial chemicals, heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues, and other toxins move through the skin on their way out of the body, they require fat to bind with and are escorted out using available fat. This leaves the skin stripped of fat and results in dryness, itchiness, and sometimes hives, rashes, or more severe skin disorders. People who have a high toxic load, from a lifetime of industrial chemical exposure, medications, vaccines, processed foods, will have correspondingly more severe dry skin because their skin is constantly being depleted of fat by outgoing toxins.

5. Cirrhosis of internal tissues. Long-term fat deficiency leads to what Aajonus described as cirrhosed tissue, dead, dried-out tissue resembling a tanned hide inside the body. This is dry skin's deepest cause and most serious implication: the skin is merely the visible surface of a systemic internal desiccation.

6. Vegetable/pressed oils acting as solvents. Aajonus made a sharp distinction between animal fats (which lubricate) and pressed vegetable oils (which act as solvents and dry out the skin and glands). He said: "Oils dry the skin out. The body makes solvents with them... They break down cholesterol. They dissolve cholesterol. They get rid of free radicals. Why? Because they're a solvent. And they dry out the skin. They will dry out the glands." He specifically called out flaxseed oil, almond oil, and vitamin E oil as drying agents that damage the skin.

7. Water as a drying agent. Aajonus taught that water, H2O without being bound in nutrients, is a solvent that dries the body. "The more water you drink, the more dry you get. Look at the people who drink the most water. Their skin's dry, wrinkling, and they've got huge water retention." He explained that H2O cannot be absorbed into cells unless it is ionically bonded with other nutrients. If water enters a cell without nutrients, it dehydrates the cell. He used the analogy: "You keep putting water on your arm, and what happens? It dries it out. It doesn't lubricate it. You put good butter on it, and guess what happens? You're lubricated for days."

8. Soaps, shampoos, lotions, and skin products. These strip the skin's natural oils and introduce toxic chemicals that damage skin cells. He taught that all skin oils, soaps, and lotions are made with processed oils, "natural" or not, that smother and make the skin toxic. He said: "If you can't eat it, why would you feed it to your skin?" The removal of natural skin oils through washing also makes the person much more susceptible to temperature changes, even a 10-degree temperature change could affect someone whose fat coating had been washed off.

9. Bathing with tap water. Tap water containing chlorine and other chemicals was identified as drying to the skin. He recommended adding coconut cream to the bath water, or using milk and vinegar, so that when stepping out of the bath, the skin would be coated rather than stripped.

10. Skin cancer and sun sensitivity relationship to fat deficiency. Aajonus noted that skin cancer develops specifically in people who are especially deficient in utilizable fat in the skin. When the skin lacks fat, it cannot properly transform sun rays into vitamin D, resulting in burning and drying, which creates vast amounts of dead cells that the body cannot discard.

11. Injections, vaccines, and medications. Aajonus described his own personal experience of severe skin drying, wrinkling, and sagging as a direct result of injections he received. He described the skin on his hands becoming like an old man's skin as a consequence of long-term topical hydrocortisone cream application during childhood allergic dermatitis, and he also described his skin sagging, drying, and wrinkling throughout his body after receiving shots, stating it was "five times worse" than the visible remaining dryness at the time he was speaking.

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Dry skin sits at the intersection of multiple principles in Aajonus's framework:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory: The foundational teaching is that dry skin = fat deficiency = internal desiccation. This is a terrain issue: when the body lacks raw animal fat, it cannot maintain the lubrication of cells, tissues, joints, skin, and connective tissue.

Cooked Food: Cooked and processed fats cannot lubricate the body. They produce plastic-like toxic compounds that accumulate in tissue and must be dissolved and expelled, creating additional dryness and toxin burden.

Detoxification: The dry skin condition is intimately connected to the body's detoxification process. 90% of toxins exit through the skin. As they do, they consume and destroy fat in the skin, causing dryness, itching, rashes, hives. The detox process strips the skin of whatever fat is available.

Raw Food: Raw animal fat, specifically raw butter, raw cream, raw bone marrow, raw coconut cream, is the solution. Raw fat lubricates in ways that cooked fat never can. The freeze experiment with butter demonstrated that even freezing butter reduces its healing efficacy for skin disorders by a factor of 5.

How to Eat: The Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula is specifically designed to bypass the internal competition for fat by speeding digestion so rapidly that fat reaches the peripheral tissues, skin, bones, connective tissue, before the organs and glands can absorb it all.

How to Live: Bathing practices, sunbathing preparation, topical applications, and the avoidance of soaps and lotions are all practical living protocols that directly affect dry skin.

Sovereignty: The entire framework challenges the medical establishment's diagnosis of "dehydration" and its solution of IV fluids, positioning the individual's ability to understand their own body's signals, fat deficiency, not water deficiency, as a form of liberation from harmful medical intervention.

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This is the single most important formula Aajonus developed for dry skin. He said it "rushes, it digests faster, and it gets into the system so all the organs and glands can't utilize it all, and some gets to the bone and skin and connective tissue."

Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula Recipe - 1 to 2 raw eggs - 2 to 4 ounces unsalted raw butter or coconut cream - 1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice - 1 to 2 teaspoons unheated honey

Preparation: All ingredients should be room temperature. Warm all ingredients in an 8- or 12-ounce jar, capped with the blender wash (blender washer/blades/base), immersed in a bowl of mildly hot water for 5 minutes. Blenderize on medium speed for 5 seconds.

Why this formula works: The lemon juice is the critical activating ingredient. It allows the liver to handle the butter easily and pre-digests the fat so rapidly that it moves through the system fast enough that the glands and organs cannot absorb it all before it reaches the peripheral tissues, the skin, connective tissue, and bones. Without the lemon juice, butter eaten alone is absorbed by the glands and organs and may never reach the skin even if a pound a day is consumed.

He said: "The lemon juice goes in there and breaks down the butter quickly so that it's digested and moves so fast through the system that the glands and the organs can't absorb it all. And it can get to the skin, the connective tissue, and the bones and the muscles. So you won't have that dryness, even if you're eating a pound of butter a day."

He described developing this formula after observing that even with massive fat intake, 50% of his patients still had dry skin because the internal organs consumed all available fat before any reached the skin. "I needed even on this diet, people's skin was drying out. Eating all this fat, can you imagine skin drying? All of this fat. Yeah, it was happening on at least 50% of my patients."

He also noted the success with psoriasis patients: "It used to take me seven, eight years to get it to a point where it was not painful. I can do it in three to six months with a patient now. Massive, massive dead, dry skin all over the body, bleeding, cracking all over, knees, elbows, armpits. Three and a half months, one elderly man, only three and a half months to reverse that condition with that lubricate, moisturizing lubrication formula."

Timing: He mentioned consuming half before sleep and half during the night, specifically because the body goes into ketosis (eating its own tissue) after 5 hours without food, which contributes to internal dryness and cell damage.

Naming convention: Aajonus deliberately gave this formula two names, "Moisturizing Lubrication Formula" and "Lubrication Moisturizing Formula", specifically because women respond to the word "moisturizing" and men respond to the word "lubrication." He wanted the formula to be emotionally appealing to both genders so they would actually use it. "Women love the word moisturizing. You can sell them a $30 bottle of moisturizing formula if you promise them it's going to bring their skin back to life." He was clear this was a marketing consideration, not a change in the formula itself.

Aajonus was unambiguous: "I have seen all skin disorders reconciled by raw butter consumption." Raw butter is the primary fat for lubricating the skin from the inside. "If you have dry skin, achy bones, joints, you go for the butter. Dryness anywhere, signs of MS, butter is the most important."

He noted from a historical account: "In WWI, a Russian general recorded in his log that 3 months after his troops exhausted the raw butter supply and resorted to consuming olive oil, the men's hair, nails and skin dried. The log stated that several weeks after they were able to obtain raw dairy again, the men's hair, nails and skin became supple and moist."

He also conducted his own experiments: He took a group of animals with skin disorders and split them into groups, half receiving fresh (unfrozen) raw butter, half receiving frozen raw butter. "Those skin disorders cleared up 5 times faster than the group that had the frozen butter." He therefore always specified fresh, unfrozen raw butter.

He stated that butter is the only food consumed internally that can reliably reach the skin, especially when used in the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula. "Only butter will do that, cream won't do that. Cream won't even get near the skin; cream is all absorbed by the glands and the organs, and nervous system. Butter is the only thing that will get to the skin from ingesting."

Raw cream is absorbed almost entirely by the glands, organs, and nervous system and generally does not reach the skin directly through internal consumption. However, it has value topically (see topical protocols below) and as part of the Primal Facial Body Care Cream.

Aajonus identified bone marrow as one of the most regenerative substances for the skin because it contains stem cells. He said: "The only thing that's going to bring your skin back to life is sperm and bone marrow because they have the stem cells. That's the only thing that's going to bring your skin back to life. You can protect it with other fats, especially coconut cream, but the only thing that's going to bring your skin back to life is moist, fresh sperm and bone marrow."

He described a hairdresser who had been on the diet for approximately 10 years and still had dry skin and looked her age. He instructed her to apply bone marrow directly to her skin. He traveled to Asia for two months, came back, and "this one girl with this dry skin, this hairdresser, her skin was completely different. She lost 10 years off of her face. She's almost 50 years old now. Now she looks like she's 40, just from using the bone marrow on the skin directly."

She continued using it daily afterward rather than eating enough fat to lubricate the whole body through diet alone. He described this as a practical compromise but noted that eating sufficient dietary fat remained the ideal.

Applied topically to the face overnight, raw sirloin reduced wrinkles by approximately 2-4% per application. Aajonus described: "One night, I just did it one night and 10% of the wrinkles went away. So I started doing it a couple of days a week and it was getting rid of like, you know, 2% to 3% to 4% each time."

He applied the meat, covered it with butter on the outside (to prevent drying), covered that with a wet organic cotton t-shirt or gauze, then plastic, then wrapped with an Ace bandage. The important technical note: "You just don't want that meat to dry. That's the problem. When the meat dries it's going to contract everything." If the meat dries out, it will not function as skin and will not provide the nourishing benefit.

He preferred sirloin: "Well, I like sirloin. That's all I buy. So that's what I put on my face. It's the sweetest." He applied it for 5-6 hours overnight.

He also described applying meat internally to skin that was drying and shriveling after an accident: "I started slapping pieces of meat on my face... I just did it one night and 10% of the wrinkles went away."

Also for internal consumption: Non-ground meats (whole, unground cuts) provide more healing than ground meats and help prevent the common aging symptoms of sagging, wrinkling, and drying from occurring at the same rate.

Part of the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula. Also consumed as part of general dietary fat support.

Part of the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula. Also used topically in small amounts.

Used both internally and topically. Internally, it can substitute for butter in the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula. Topically, it is one of the most effective protective and lubricating substances for the skin. Aajonus described using it before bathing and in bath water: "What I do to help the skin be soft, in my well water, without putting anything in. I'll put a little bit of coconut cream in the water, so when I get out, it's like when you put your car through the car wash, it's got the spray wax at the end. That's like putting a thin layer of oil and raw water-soluble fats on your skin."

He also described using slightly fermented coconut cream as a soap substitute, rubbing it on the skin before bathing or showering to cleanse without stripping natural oils.

He noted: "Coconut cream softens everything." He used it before rinsing off to prevent the bath from stripping the skin.

Coconut cream also serves a protective function: it can protect the skin from the drying effects of bathing. After toxin-purging baths where the skin has been perspiring out toxins, applying coconut cream to the water surface before getting out re-coats the body.

However, he noted that coconut cream alone cannot regenerate the skin, it can only protect it: "You can protect it with other fats, especially coconut cream, but the only thing that's going to bring your skin back to life is moist, fresh sperm and bone marrow."

Consumed internally as a fat-bearing fluid. Added to bath water to buffer the drying effects of soaking.

Rather than drinking water (which dries the body), Aajonus recommended eating tomatoes to quench thirst. "Eating tomatoes quenches thirst best." Tomatoes are about 90-92% water but that water is bound in nutrients and can actually hydrate cells, unlike plain water which cannot be absorbed without nutrient bonding.

"Sour cream's fabulous." Used topically and internally to provide fat.

Mentioned as topically useful for dry skin.

Pineapple juice applied to the skin can facilitate oxygen exchange and dissolve dead cells without causing breakdown, but only if not applied too frequently. "Pineapple on your skin won't dry unless you're applying it too often." This is in contrast to lemon juice applied topically (as opposed to internally in the Moisturizing Formula), which dries the skin on one application.

For dry spots that are chemically caused, where industrial toxins are coming through the skin, Aajonus recommended rubbing a grapefruit on the area. "Take a grapefruit, and you rub it on it, and it will decontaminate the poison that's coming from the skin. It'll also deaden the skin faster, and so it'll fall off." He noted this must be paired with eating lots of Moisturizing Formulas to prevent drying from the inside.

Adding approximately 1/3 cup raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar to a hot bath can relieve itchy dry skin by drawing toxins and buffering the skin environment. Also combined with milk and coconut cream in bath water.

Sun-dried clay mixed with raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar (1 teaspoon clay to 1½ tablespoons ACV), or with a fertile raw egg, or with fresh raw papaya juice (1 tablespoon papaya with ½ tablespoon mineral water), applied to the skin several times a week attracts and absorbs toxins coming through the skin. He recommended alternating: apple cider vinegar, then egg, then papaya, cycling through the three preparations. Also used in baths for hives and itchy skin (½ cup sun-dried clay in the bath).

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On the standard Primal Diet without the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula, Aajonus observed that people's skin could dry out even when eating large amounts of fat, this was happening in 50% of his patients. The formula was developed to address this. Once the formula is in regular use, the skin starts responding within approximately 10 days: "The skin started glowing within 10 days of eating it once a day."

Before the Moisturizing/Lubrication Formula was developed: 7-8 years to bring severe psoriasis to a point where it was not painful.

After the formula: "I can do it in three to six months with a patient now." He described one elderly man with "massive, massive dead, dry skin all over the body, bleeding, cracking all over, knees, elbows, armpits" who reversed his condition in three and a half months using the formula.

A cosmetologist who had been on the diet for approximately 10 years but refused to eat enough butter looked her age despite being on the diet. After applying the Primal Facial Body Care Cream and using bone marrow topically, she lost 10 years from her appearance. She was nearly 50 and began looking like 40.

Aajonus's case with bone marrow: he described traveling to Asia for two months and returning to find this transformation had taken place in the hairdresser, approximately 2 months of consistent daily bone marrow application to the face.

From Aajonus's personal overnight application of raw sirloin to the face: 10% reduction in wrinkles after one application. Continued applications at several times per week resulted in 2-4% additional reduction per application.

Soldiers whose raw butter supply was exhausted and who resorted to olive oil saw their hair, nails, and skin dry within 3 months. "Several weeks after they were able to obtain raw dairy again, the men's hair, nails and skin became supple and moist." This suggests a recovery timeline of several weeks when raw butter is restored after a period of deprivation.

Animals fed only raw (unfrozen) meat, without bone, milk, egg, honey, or butter, did not develop dry coats even at 13-14 weeks. Their coats remained shiny and lustrous. When animals with existing skin disorders were given raw (unfrozen) butter, their disorders cleared up 5 times faster than those given frozen butter.

Aajonus's personal experience: receiving shots resulted in immediate and dramatic skin drying, wrinkling, and sagging. After returning to his protocols, applying meat, using coconut cream, eating fats, he saw gradual improvement, but noted that even a year later he still had visible remnants of the damage in certain areas. This suggests that drug/injection-induced skin aging is among the most difficult and slowest forms of dry skin to reverse.

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This is Aajonus's primary topical formula for dry skin. He described it multiple times across multiple contexts as the go-to remedy for any dry, itchy, or troubled skin area anywhere on the body.

Composition: - Coconut cream (one part) - Raw dairy cream (one part) - Unsalted raw butter (one part) - A little unheated honey - A little royal jelly - Bone marrow (optional but adds significant benefit)

He described the enhanced version as a four-part formula: "If you make it four parts, and use one with a tiny bit of honey in it, and the royal jelly in it, that is a phenomenal one. Phenomenal moisturizer for the skin."

Application: Rub into skin. Wipe away any excess 20 to 30 minutes after applying. Must be kept refrigerated.

What it does: "Put that anywhere on your skin, anywhere on your body, itching goes away in five minutes and you don't have to reapply it until you take a bath or a shower. Or subject that area to fluids to dry it up again."

Additional uses: Applied liberally to cuts, scrapes, or abrasions to prevent excessive scabbing and the dryness that results from scabbing. Dissolves already-formed scabs when applied and left on. "Liberally applied and left on, the skin cream slowly dissolves scabs that have already formed." Tested as a sunscreen, participants thought they had burned but found no burn or soreness the next morning, and nobody peeled.

Wrinkles: "This skin cream feeds the skin and helps prevent and slowly remove lines and wrinkles with regular application. It works for the entire body."

"Put butter right on your skin." He recommended applying butter to the outside of raw meat applied to the face to prevent the meat from drying out. He also recommended it as the single best thing for skin from the outside.

Applied directly and rubbed in. One woman lost 10 years from her appearance within 2 months of daily application. Contains stem cells. He described it as the only thing (along with fresh sperm) that can actually regenerate skin cells rather than merely protect them.

Used before bathing to soften dead skin so it can be gently removed with a cotton or silk cloth without abrasion. He described the tribe in the Philippines using smooth ocean rocks to brush off dead skin, he used coconut cream and a cloth for the same purpose, more gently.

"Raw cream on the skin will soothe and nourish the skin, and help the skin absorb the sun that has been captured in the skin."

Aajonus described using his own saliva on a wound in the Philippines when he had no access to apple cider vinegar. "Saliva digests food, meats. So, I was taking my saliva to help digest it. That's why dogs and cats will always lick a wound because it'll break down the dead cells so that you can heal properly." This is an edge-case protocol for wound healing and preventing the dryness of scabbing.

For stretch marks, scars, and acne scarring: vigorously rub a mixture of 2 tablespoons fresh raw papaya with 1 tablespoon unheated-above-96°F fermented coconut oil or stone-pressed olive oil into the skin once weekly. Wipe off excess after 15-20 minutes.

Used topically for conditions where toxins have penetrated deep into the skin (e.g., contact with toxic oils like poison oak). Applied once or twice daily, left on all day and night. The ammonia and proteins help dilute and neutralize penetrated oils. After urine has been on 1½-2 hours, applying the Primal Facial Body Care Cream further neutralizes the irritants.

It is imperative not to shower or bathe the morning of a sunbathing day. Washing removes the body's natural oils that are a natural sunblock. Rubbing a little unrefined cold-pressed-below-96°F coconut or peanut oil into the skin the night before sunbathing promotes tanning and reduces burning. No oil or lotion should be applied to the skin for 24 hours prior to sunning (this was Aajonus's personal protocol).

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