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Do you/your child have eczema? Be a tester for Dexeryl emollient and you could win a £250 skincare hamper

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OliviaMumsnet · 26/10/2009 19:32

Pierre Fabre Laboratories are a French pharmaceutical company who has a leading global presence in dermatology amongst a range of other disease areas. Their product portfolio includes DEXERYL® cream from their Pierre Fabre Dermatologie range and Avène, from their Dermo-Cosmétique range.

Pierre Fabre Dermatologie have asked Mumsnet to find 150 people who either have eczema themselves or who have a child who has eczema (or both) to try DEXERYL® cream emollient and to report back on Talk about their experiences.

Some information on DEXERYL® cream is available below:

"DEXERYL® cream is an emollient which combines 15 per cent glycerol, improving skin hydration, with 8 per cent white soft paraffin and 2 per cent liquid paraffin.

This combination helps to prevent moisture evaporation, enhance skin hydration and improves the skin barrier function. Patients should apply a thin layer of cream to the skin once or twice daily, or more if needed. As DEXERYL® cream is lanolin and fragrance free it suits most patients with dry skin, atopic dermatitis and ichthyosis.

The combination of glycerol, which improves skin elasticity and white, soft paraffin and liquid paraffin in DEXERYL® cream offers a highly acceptable non-sticky and non-greasy formulation, which patients have stated they significantly prefer in clinical trials.

DEXERYL® cream is safe to use in adults, children, babies, pregnant or breastfeeding women.

To be in with a chance of testing this emollient please fill in your details here. All we ask is that you return to Mumsnet by Friday 20th November to give your feedback.

Everyone who is selected as a tester and who offers feedback will be entered into a prize draw to win an Avène and Klorane hamper worth £250 (containing products such as Ysthéal eye contour cream, Ysthéal emulsion, a papyrus mask, a bathrobe, some gentle gel cleanser and factor 50 suncreams).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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BrigitBigKnickers · 09/11/2009 22:06

I got mine this morning too. In the nick of time too as DDs winter dry patches have just flared up on her arms and the tops of her legs.

Here's hoping it might be more successful than the emollient we use and gentler than the E45 HC we were resorting to.

Bubbaloo · 10/11/2009 08:18

Mine has just arrived :-)

FlappyTheBat · 10/11/2009 12:23

Collected mine this morning, pleased as my hands are beginning to flare up. Put some on immediately and was able to drive as non greasy, will be interested to see how my skin takes to this cream.

snigger · 10/11/2009 15:01

Mine arrived today

aristocat · 10/11/2009 22:26

Yay.........i got some too

BettySwollux · 10/11/2009 22:49

Got mine too, agree with mynameis ....it does make your hans lovely and soft.

LaTrucha · 11/11/2009 20:10

Where do we put feedback?

BrigitBigKnickers · 11/11/2009 21:40

DD is amazed- she has used it three times and the nasty red raised patch of excema she had on the top of her arm (which we were treating with E45 HC) has almost gone!

She is very pleased!

LaTrucha · 11/11/2009 21:47

I found that it took a while to sink in but felt very nice after that - smooth and not dry. It seems to have stopped the patches in my hands which were just coming up from getting worse. They don't seem to be inflamed now. DD has stopped itching her shoulders where she often gets patches. She didn't have any patches, but was itching and nothing seems to have developed.

Good, I would say.

trace2 · 12/11/2009 08:34

got mine to and soooo glad to try out the cold weather and putting heating jumpers on made dd flare up! and up to now its working.

Rindercella · 12/11/2009 18:23

I've got mine too - it's already making a difference. Looking forward to giving feedback.

lisad123wantsherquoteinDM · 12/11/2009 18:38

got ours too, forgot i had asked
where do we do feedback?

pointydogg · 12/11/2009 18:43

marking. A friend of mine brought some of this back from france recently and we are about to try it.

snice · 12/11/2009 22:18

Got mine-so far so good

AnnMumsnet · 12/11/2009 23:06

feedback thread will start on monday...we'll email you the link. Want to give you time to try it properly!
Thanks, Ann

LouIsAWeetbixKid · 13/11/2009 15:00

Got mine too. It is working quite well as DC hands are quite red at the moment so will see how it goes.

Spoo · 14/11/2009 14:32

Got mine. It's already working.

AbricotsSecs · 14/11/2009 23:30

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AnnMumsnet · 16/11/2009 08:13

Feedback thread is here - testers will get an email with a link as well

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