Here’s an interesting email I received from a mom last year: “thanks … since we switched to [soap products] this winter, nobody in my family has had dried, cracked skin (esp. around the knuckles), we’d ALWAYS have this problem, every year, during winter. but not this year, despite some intense soap washing (many kiddie outings, …
Here’s a really well-done and interesting study: Association between severity of atopic eczema and degree of sensitization to aeroallergens in schoolchildren. (So much great dermatological research coming out of Germany these days.) If you click on the link, a wealth of related research pops up to the right. Conclusion of the above study: “The degree …
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So, since about three weeks ago, I have tried maybe 30 or 40 different kinds of bar soaps. Every sink in the household is surrounded by half a dozen bars of soap. Finding one that is a suitable washing test replacement for the old unscented Dove is a more involved matter than this — for …
A woman in my mother’s club once told me that she did not believe her baby’s eczema could be caused by detergent exposure, because she herself had eczema and the condition was obviously genetic. In my experience, this genetic connection is a big indicator that the eczema is probably caused by detergents. Detergent-reactive eczema seems …
The clear winner of the plant-based soaps I tried from this Drugstore.com order is … Olivella Face and Body Soap. It says it’s 100% olive oil from Italy. The ingredients are: Sodium Olivate (saponified virgin olive oil), water, glycerin, fragrance. I was pretty skeptical given the short ingredients list, and how drying I have found …
Please forgive me for a second off-topic post – I just felt I needed to say something. Blue Shield is behaving worse than despicably to my family in a health care coverage issue that has nothing to do with eczema. (My coverage is through a federal plan, so I do not have the usual recourse …
The box of new soaps arrived yesterday from Drugstore.com. I sat on the living room floor and opened all the little brightly color packages – I couldn’t wait to try them. I must have washed my hands twenty times last night just to get an initial feel for some of these products. After trying about …
Now that Unscented Dove has changed its surfactant formula, I can no longer recommend it for the washing test. The new formula may be fine, but I cannot make further recommendations until I know. I will update my web site as soon as I can. (I wish it were easier to update the site!!) I …
I have heard from several readers who had difficulty viewing the site with Internet Explorer. Most importantly, they can’t view the full site; IE only shows half of The Solutions page. The Solutions page has a list of products that work. The list can be found near the end of the page. If you can’t …
I spoke with a telephone representative at Dove today. Apparently, both unscented Dove and unscented Dove for Sensitive Skin have technically been discontinued. Dove has replaced both with a bar called unscented Dove Sensitive Skin. The new bar has a different ingredients list than either of the two products it is replacing: Ingredients of the …