Your skin probably absorbed plenty of lotion..
The thing is, if you keep applying it, so you can FEEL a layer on the top of your skin, you are only clogging your pores and/or trapping dirt and bacteria in your skin. Stop applying so much. If your skin isnt flaking off, then its probably just fine. Even if it is, in some cases, the cure is not adding oil, but just living in a humid climate. Sometimes dry feeling, flaky, ashy skin is caused by a lack of humidity. More humidity encourages cell turnover so your skin might even look younger in a more humid climate..