Have a DC aged 3 months - 6 years that suffers with dry, itchy or eczema-prone skin? Sign up to test La Roche-Posay’s LIPIKAR AP+ skincare routine

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We are looking for 120 UK Mumsnetters who have a child aged 3 months - 6 years who suffers with dry, itchy, or eczema-prone skin to test out La Roche-Posay’s LIPIKAR AP+ 3 step skincare routine. Selected testers will be sent LIPIKAR Syndet AP+ hair & body wash, LIPIKAR Balm AP+ soothing body balm, and LIPIKAR Stick AP+ on-the-go itch relief for their children to test over a month and see if it helps improve their dry, itchy or eczema-prone skin.

Here’s what La Roche-Posay have to say: “We are excited for Mumsnetters to try our LIPIKAR AP+ range, soothing skincare for dry, itchy skin, also suitable for eczema. We know one of the struggles of children suffering from dry, itchy skin is having a good night's sleep, which affects the whole family. We want parents and their little ones to have a restful night with the La Roche-Posay LIPIKAR AP+ skincare routine. Use this soothing skincare routine on your child before bedtime for up to 2 x less scratching for longer nights... and better days. We hope you enjoy the products!”

Here’s more info on the products to be tested below:

LIPIKAR Syndet AP+ hair & body wash
A gentle cream wash with Shea Butter and Glycerin to help protect your child’s skin from the drying effects of water and lock in moisture from the bath or shower. Provides 24h hydration and 24h itch protection. Suitable for new-borns. Use every evening as part of your child bath time routine. Apply to wet skin and rinse after use.

LIPIKAR Balm AP+ soothing body balm
The formula enriched with Shea Butter immediately soothes and hydrates your little one’s dry skin. Used after the LIPIKAR Syndet AP+ body wash, this bath time routine is clinically proven to help your child have a more restful night’s sleep by providing 2 x less scratching at night for children who suffer from dry, itchy skin. Suitable for new-borns. Use every evening after the bath or shower. Can be applied to face and body, and used as often as required throughout the day.

LIPIKAR Stick AP+ on-the-go itch relief
Instantly relieves scratching urges and calms skin. Easy to use pocket-stick format that can be used anytime, anywhere to soothe dry skin flare-ups. Perfect to keep in your handbag or for your child to take to school or nursery. Suitable for babies from 3 months. Use on dry and/or itchy patches or flare-ups as often as needed. Try to encourage your child to use the LIPIKAR Stick rather than their nails to soothe the urge to scratch to avoid further damage to the skin.

Please sign up here if you are interested in taking part.

All testers will be required to use the hair & body wash and soothing body balm daily and the on-the-go itch relief stick when needed for dry skin flare-ups for a month with their child. We will then ask testers to leave their feedback for each of the three products in the LIPIKAR AP+ 3 step skincare routine on a thread on Mumsnet and by filling out a short survey. Everyone that leaves feedback as required will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

Terms and conditions apply

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I would love to try this for my grandson, he is always scratching and even though I put a little bit of my " magic cream" as he calls it on he still gets a bit sore on his elbows and behind his knees.

This would be amazing to try. My child has tried everything and nothing other than steroid creams work and I hate having to use them. My daughter has patches on her head, face, knees and elbows which really destress her.

I would love to try this. My little boy has suffered with his skin since he was born. Evan doctors creams never worked for us so this would be amazing to try!!!

I' be keen to try it. We've tried a number of creams but nothing seems to work

I would love to try this for my daughter who has eczema, especially on her hands, but also on her back and side. It would be wonderful if it works.

My baby girl loves to bath but it drys her skin out terribly, really would love to see if this could help !

this would be great to my daugthers who have suffer from exczema my 5 months old and 5 years old, arms, hands, legs, neck and face dry and patches red sore as well this would be great for my daugthers.

I tried a cream from this range but the ingredients include aluminium salts, so I threw the rest of the sachets away. I wonder how on earth this can be marketed at the sensitive skin of children???

My son suffers from eczema i would love to try this on him

That's a shame , my daughter has really bad psoriasis all over her body, shes 10 though so that's a shame, she suffered quite badly !

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All signed up, would love to find something that helps my little itchy girl!

I'm quite cross about this.

Neither my DS or I fit the age criteria.

I'm interested why this is an issue.

Having suffered (like DS) from eczema since I was born I've learned that effective products (unless steroid based) are not aged based.

I've tried a multitude of off the shelf and GP prescribed products.

In terms of the former I'm now skeptical about the effectiveness especially when targeted at young children because the target "audience" is less well equipped to verify the results.

By which I mean that the initial alleviation of symptoms does not equate to longer (or even hours later) help with the condition.

As a child myself I was "creamed" as I used to call it and felt better for a few hours because it alleviates the initial dryness.

Then the cream itself becomes problematic, because it traps sweat into the creases of your skin which exacerbated the eczema.

So you see a good result initially, yay! Parents rejoice because the dryness "looks" better - but the underlying itch is still there.

So the reason for my post is that I actually STRONGLY object to a consumer test on children under 6 years old.

The skin of anyone with eczema is sensitive and fragile of whatever age and of you want to hear "results" then as a company have the guts to offer samples to adults and teens who can properly articulate the efficacy of the product rather than rely on the testimony of how it "looks" from parents who don't actually have the condition.

Agree deRigeur - don’t understand the limitation to pre-articulate consumers. Is it better for advertising?
Also, If the product contains beneficial shea butter why not use pure shea butter? Why use shea butter + petroleum based products + aluminum salts?
As a child i was also coated in oilatum and E45, which provided some relief (it was the lanolin in E45, not the added petrolatum) but only till the next bubble bath

Exactly Hare.

Btw I've reported my own post to MNHQ to raise this issue.

I underwent years of trying "creams" by my lovely and well meaning parents that had very little benefit (and have the scars to prove it) because it was initially "effective".

My only solace is that as a sufferer myself, my DS has never experienced what I did.

I would never "test" a cream on his skin.

My advice to parents is first and foremost seek out a good dermatologist.

Secondly, keep you house dust/pet free and if possible invest in a washing machine with an allergy cycle (or wash bedding at a very high temp with skin foundation certified washing liquid and do a double rince cycle).

Thirdly don't over wash. I know "everyone" on MN showers daily and bathes their child. However for someone with eczema you are constantly stripping what little natural oils they have from their skin - especially if you use bubble baths, shampoo etc.

For small children (and adults tbh) strip wash. When bathing once a week use oat baths (a bag of porridge oats in an old sock thrown in the bath - rub the sock over the skin).

Moisturise after bathing. Keep it simple. I used coconut oil on DS as a child or Shea butter. I still use both now on my body.

I could keep going....

Done, watching with interest as we've tried everything I know of so far and not had much luck

poster DeRigueurMortis
Interesting post. I have signed up, because I’m getting a bit desperate, but am now having second thoughts. Also because it asks you to use the wash daily, and my kids don’t have a daily bath as it makes everything worse.

I would love to try this for DS, but unfortunately he is 16 not 6. Suffers from such dry sensitive skin on his scalp that he rarely washes his hair, which seems antisocial but it makes him uncomfortable.

Cheekily posting here in case you don;t get the full quota in the age group specified and are happy to relax the rules in exchange for feedback. I'm just about to post in chat anyway to see if anyone can recommend a product for him to use.

I’ve been using the Lipikar Baume on DD age nearly 4. It was recommended by an adult friend who uses it herself.

It has definitely helped with her itchy dry skin patches (not classic eczema). She used to wake up itching in the night and doesn’t now. We missed a night recently as couldn’t find it (used Neutrogena instead) and she woke up itching again.

I’m not signing up for the trial as I don’t want to have to follow a regime but thought I’d add my experience.

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This sounds fantastic for my three year old, she has itchy flaky skin on her knees, elbows and tummy.

Hi, I've only recently signed up for this my son was 10 weeks premature born naturally. However he was born with 98% no skin! We were told he wouldn't survive twice, well he is still here to tell us the story and is now 3 months and two weeks, we were told my medical professionals from three different hospitals that they had never seen a baby like my son before meaning his skin. We were then told it was sepsis and the HSV1 virus that affected him after he had his skin biopsy to rule out epidermis bullosa. We were so thankful that it wasn't eb as the specialist told us if he did have this rare condition he would not have survived past one years of age as he would have had the rarest form?! Thankfully he dosent have this and began to shed what little skin he had and grew a new layer. He now has severe scarring,contractures and will need several skin grafts. I was writing on here to see if anyone else has ever heard of this happening to anyone else as I feel that the diagnosis we got is not completely accurate and it could be something else that happened during my pregnancy to do with medication I was given?
Thankyou Jess 😊

Applied. Would love to test on my DS. 3 months old and dry skin particularly in his back.

My girl suffers dry verry rough red n itch skin wld love to test it I'm exited and also love givin my reviews and jet bein 100% with them whatever the outcome a jdt say it as it iźzzzzzzzz😊😊😊😊😊😊😊