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Eczema Skin Relief


I have always suffered occasionally with the odd spot of eczema, it got particularly bad on my face when I first went to university and I thought this might have been down to the change in environment and the fact the water was a lot harder there than back home.

Since having Tegan back in February 2015, I have learned that this wasn't the case and it was brought on through stress and anxiety.  This makes perfect sense, at the time I was going through a lot.  My parents had just separated, I had moved 162 miles from home and didn't know anybody, and my boyfriend at the time had moved in the other direction to Aberystwyth.  In all from intensive moisturising and eventually settling, meeting some great new friends and my boyfriend transferring to be at the same university it calmed down after a year.  I still have to make sure not to neglect my skin on my face and it has now become part of my routine.  Guaranteed it should be anyway, but how many of us can actually say we bother?!

Now a good ten years or so later I find myself once again in a similar situation.  This time I moved 149 miles from home, left a job I loved, was pregnant and only really knew the fantastic Mr Bus and a lovely lady called Eve.  If that isn't enough to bring on some stress and anxiety I don't know what is.  This time the eczema has come out on my hands and gradually spread to my forearms and my shins. I have been using numerous steroid creams prescribed by the doctors, but nothing is touching it really.  I have had a slight respite recently and I put this down to having to have antibiotics for an ear infection and it giving my immune system a boost.

I have also been making sure to wear gloves for practically everything, leaving the bathing of my gorgeous girl to Mr Bus and moisturising as often as possible.  I have tried numerous creams but these are the ones I have found the best so far.....

My favourite one of all is Dream Cream by Lush.  This smells amazing and is apparently approved by the eczema society.  It is made using cooling oats.  It is very cooling on irritated skin and I find this brilliant if I am having a flare up on my arms, legs, and body.  Unfortunately it doesn't really do much for my hands. It is especially good on little flare ups.

E45 Intensive skin repair.  This is brilliant, it is keeping my eczema at bay.  I started using it daily and now I just use it every other day.  The great thing is you only need a spot of it as well.  However, this was still no good on my hands.

For my hands.....at last.  After trying the quite pricey Robertson's eczema relief from Australia without much luck I came across vaseline intensive care advanced repair hand. However now trying to find somewhere that sells it....




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