to wash my children in white spirit? will that be good for their excema?

[icecold]

or...can you recommend some natural products which

a) dont cost a million pounds for 250ml bottles (which run out in a week)
b) oh..thats it...some i can buy in reletively big bottles, that dont cost the earth?

(see how i dressed that up as an AIBU?!)

oat bath.

Olive oil

Olive oil.

Sudocrem?

can't you ask your doctor for a prescription for the thing that works?

SNAP!

Olive oil is ok.
Lush dream cream is very good and took the itch out of it. I use on as and dd. It is about £10 a tub but it lasts about 8 weeks.

Aqueous cream for washing. Available from any £1 shop in 500ml tubs. Then moisturise with olive oil or an emollient like Diprobase which you can get on prescription.

Children get free prescriptions.

DH sticks the itchy part under the hot tap, not recommended, but he does say it feels good

Can you ask the doctor for a prescription of something like oilatum junior - they can prescribe massive bottles which last quite a long time.

Also, you can get massibe tubs of emulsifying ointment (great stuff and pretty pure) for about 4 quid.

Oats in an old sock run under the tap. Made my scaly itchy boy's skin lovely and soft.

Don't use aqueous cream in the shower, it bungs up the drain and is a bugger to get rid of. Paraffin based cream works best for me, specifically epaderm but I get it on prescription.

aqueous cream is shit

as are all teh other petrol jelly based creams i have used from doctors

if i use natural bath/shampoo, then we dont need creams and ointments...just want to find something in bigger bottles! which isnt too dear

ill try olive oil in the bath...what can i wash their hair with though?

dprince dont think lush stuff is sls free is it???

ill try oats also, thanks

Aveeno. Don't know if it's free of whatever but it works for us.

Aqueous cream/E45 was about as much use as not. Made it worse imo.

This is a little controversial, but a friend of mine tried it and it was brilliant.

Wash their hair in just conditioner, the cheap brands are best as they don't contain all the crap. Shampoos contain sulfates which are need to get rid of dimethicone (used in most conditioners) sulfates are skin irritant and very drying.

betsy E45 is the work of the devil.....how the bloody hell they are still peddling that stuff, i dont know....

Try this lady

www.facebook.com/#!/thesoapycauldron

She handmakes everything and has a massive assortment of goodies- I know she has made stuff which has successfully helped excema

Message her, she will sort you out!

binkY yep, i want natural to avoid sls's (and the other Ls, which i forget)

Aveeno. Request on prescription as it's expensive.

keepingup

not so far off with the flippant white-spirit reference then

Sorry am assuming you are on facebook!

Oat bath is very good indeed. Very soothing on DD2's horrible excema, though we still need to use some cortisone cream occasionally on bad flair ups.