Just discovered (with help of the doctor) the amazing effect of vasaline on the creases of the skin on the little lad's eczema - I think it stops the salty sweat from irritating the skin further - brilliant!
Pretty cheap, too!
Showing posts with label baby skin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby skin. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Incredible, cheap bath for eczema and dry skin
For about 20 years, I have been haunted by the television image of David Bellamy in the bath.
He was promoting the use of natural ingredients in everyday life, long before the celebrity style gurus appeared. Don't ask me why, but I filed the image of him in an oatmeal bath under 'useful' in my childish mind. It can also be found under 'worrying' 'don't go there' and 'don't look.'
I recall him explaining that an oatmeal bath is an excellent eczema remedy and so we tried in in our little boy's bath this evening.
The results are fantastic - his skin is very very soft and looks nicely soothed. The water felt incredibly soft, and hasn't made his lovely hair sticky at all.
Another surprising effect is that my hands look about 5 years younger. They are incredibly smooth, soft and my annoying dermatitis has settled down (no mean feat).
What is more, my nails tips have whitened, too!
Please find below how I put together the ingredients for this fantastic bath:
1. Place two, generous fistfuls of porridge oats into the centre of a muslin square
2. Gather up the muslin, and twist the porridge oats into a ball to make a bag
3. Use an elastic band to hold the muslin together
4. Tie the muslin and porridge bag onto the hot tap so that the hot water pours over the bag
5. Let the bag sit in the bath water for 5 minutes, and then squeeze out the oat juice.
Enjoy! My skin feels amazing, as does our little boy's. Whoever thought David Bellamy would be such a skincare expert?
He was promoting the use of natural ingredients in everyday life, long before the celebrity style gurus appeared. Don't ask me why, but I filed the image of him in an oatmeal bath under 'useful' in my childish mind. It can also be found under 'worrying' 'don't go there' and 'don't look.'
I recall him explaining that an oatmeal bath is an excellent eczema remedy and so we tried in in our little boy's bath this evening.
The results are fantastic - his skin is very very soft and looks nicely soothed. The water felt incredibly soft, and hasn't made his lovely hair sticky at all.
Another surprising effect is that my hands look about 5 years younger. They are incredibly smooth, soft and my annoying dermatitis has settled down (no mean feat).
What is more, my nails tips have whitened, too!
Please find below how I put together the ingredients for this fantastic bath:
1. Place two, generous fistfuls of porridge oats into the centre of a muslin square
2. Gather up the muslin, and twist the porridge oats into a ball to make a bag
3. Use an elastic band to hold the muslin together
4. Tie the muslin and porridge bag onto the hot tap so that the hot water pours over the bag
5. Let the bag sit in the bath water for 5 minutes, and then squeeze out the oat juice.
Enjoy! My skin feels amazing, as does our little boy's. Whoever thought David Bellamy would be such a skincare expert?
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Cheap, effective eczema relief
Good morning! Ooh, it's a lovely day here - the sun is shining, the squirrels are skipping around the garden... the blossoms are out...
Thus meaning our little lad has excema on the back of his legs. It seems to crop up in the little folds - ankles, behind the knees etc.
It seems to be heat related thing, and looks really sore.
I've googled 'baby excema' and lots of expensive creams come up. None of them seem to offer help with the heat side of things, though.
Having asked my mum, she recommended good, old fashioned calamine lotion. It has worked wonders, and I've put it on his legs before bed and an hour after putting on a cheap emollient (Superdrug own brand).
So far, so good!
The calamine lotion was 78p from Tesco, although I'm sure you can get it cheaper for such a basic product.
It has saved us a fortune on trial-and-error excema creams!
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