best moisturisers/emollients for eczema?

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My 2.5 year old dd has excema. Have been working my way through the various lotions and potions but still haven't really had much success with anything apart from steroid creams. Now that I have researched eczema and understand a little more about treatment and management I am doing the following- when it flares up badly using 1% hydrocortisone cream/ointment twice a day for 7 days until skin is clear then using Aveeno cream 3-4 times a day for a moisturiser and Aveeno oil in the bath which she only has once every 3 days. However the eczema just gradually creeps back within a couple of weeks and she never stops itching- even when her skin feels soft and is clear of any patches. She itches her scalp constantly even though I cant see any excema on her head at all and her eyes go red underneath and on eyelids seemingly before my eyes. Even after applying cream she still itches, a pimply rash starts to appear on her trunk and patches in her skin creases and then the skin is broken and off we go again!
I think maybe Aveeno is not working for us anymore so please come and tell me what else I can use, especially to stop the itching!!!

er hem.... erratum. DD has no soaps or bubble baths...

Yes baldwins is good, but expensive. There are 2 'shops' I use on ebay that specialise in herbs etc

Hi, all, just wanted to add that I have really valued the posts other people have made, in case we need to change tack again!

By the way, I wanted to add that the difference between ointments and creams can be that ointments must be rubbed in more thoroughly, so at least seem to work better. That was our experience when we switched from aqueous cream to Epaderm.

Also, for extreme cases, you could try what my former boss had to do for his DD1, which was wet wrapping. They wrapped her up in damp gauze, which I think was also covered in emollient (they were rather against steroid cream, probably because the poor girl would have had too much, by the end of it all). I've googled "wet wrapping" and "eczema" and there are loads of resources on this, even though it is rather a nuclear option. The girl grew out of by the time she was about 9, which is a long time, but she has nut allergy and probably some other things I'm not aware of, so I hope she's not a representative case!

DD2 (18 months) has eczema and I will share what worked for us -

Surcare washing powder, Aveeno cream and bath oil (non-colloidal oatmeal, just like the porridge oats) and Dentinox for her hair.

I finally gave in to the dairy allergy idea and switched to goats milk and cheese. She has taken to it with no trouble and her eczema is massively better. Not sure whether a 2.5 year old will adapt so well to the taste of goats milk, but it really is worth a try.

After telling my mum about this she announced that her sister had bad eczema and, in those days you couldn't buy goats milk, so they kept and milked their own goat . How come I never knew about this!

ooh I always wanted a goat..

Maybe this is the excuse I need

Can I say as an eczema sufferer who now with a child with mild eczema don't use steroid creams, please read this site

Please note don't use steroid creams for eczema, please read this site www.itsan.org/

You should try the fantastic new emollient which our local surgery is now recommending. It is called Aquamax. It is a super cream which my GP tells me is much longer lasting than other emollients. My daughter uses it for her eczema and now many of her friends are buying it at the chemist for use as a moisturiser. It doesn't contain the SLS skin irritant in it which many of the other emollients contain....the SLS makes the skin sting. We all love it.

AQUEOUS CREAM IS ONLY TO BE USED AS A SOAP!!!!
Not shouting at you OP but all the bloody GPs in the land who haven't figured this out!!
Dermol cream and bath additive has an anti itch ingredient.
We also use dream wash and dream cream from Lush. (They will give you samples.)
Oats in the bath help too.

Aquamax is NOT Aqueous Cream and is used as a moisturising emollient and as a soap substitute.
I suggest you try Aquamax - it is the best emollient we have found and we have tried them all...including Dermol.

www.moogoo.ie/
I bought some of this today, as I have psoriasis, it is getting great reviews, might be worth a try if you like something more natural, they stock in a few places in UK, just look on website, they have a good range, tried it today lovely to put on and very soothing

Help ...has anyone used goats skin cream on their babies skin? My LO has bad excema on his face and we have been referred and have the double base and steroid cream ....but I really don't want to keep using the steroids.
I am thinking its natural and I know people convert to goats milk as a drink.

FFS this thread is 6 years old!!