Discovering how to manage eczema - by avoiding
personal care and household products with ingredients that irritated my
skin and by taking supplements of minerals and antioxidants to help my
immune system - was how I began the whole journey of taking control of my
own health.
When I realised that ingredients that are in every day bathroom
products were, to say the least, contributing to my eczema I was
astounded. I immediately wrote to the relevant organisations in the
UK which provide advice to people with skin problems, telling them what I
had found, and sending copies of Paul's scientific findings... and
received no response whatsoever...
I was extremely bemused by this, but I have recently come to understand
that various manufacturers of products that don't contain the
ingredients (such as sodium lauryl sulphate and propylene glycol) that I,
personally, find to be skin irritants have received legal
advice to ensure that they state that, although they themselves don't use
the ingredients in the products that they make, such ingredients have been
passed by all the relevant bodies as being safe for human use. So that's
all right then.
I've included this web page only because we've had so many people ask
about my eczema and how I dealt with it. But we have no desire to get
entangled with personal care products companies with large legal budgets.
If you want to know more about the ingredients that I personally find
unhelpful for eczema, go to http://medlineplus.gov/
and use their excellent search facility.
Obviously, if you'd like to have some information about suppliers that
I find helpful, do contact us.
