It makes my skin smooth and supple and not greasy, but I don’t think it will work for dry-skinned people. People with normal skin can use it when the weather is really hot and you don’t want to sweat. Oily skin girls will love it because it feels like you have put nothing! :D oh did I mention, it smells so floral and feminine? If you have used Pond’s Dream flower talc/deo, it smells exactly the same, but two times more intense, but it fades completely after 10 minutes, so no nausea/headache from strong smell :) About the lightening claims, (I don’t get what lightening is supposed to mean, you can’t and should not change your natural skin tone. So to me, it means de-tanning skin tanned/darkened by the sun. Well, my arms are pretty tanned and after using for about 12 days, it has not really lightened the skin, but I do not care about that as long as the lotion is working as a lotion for me :)