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Showing posts with label eczema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eczema. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Best lotion out there!

Let me start out by saying that I don't work for this company, and I never have. This isn't a bullshit promotional plug. This is just a girl with excima telling you what has worked for her for day to day use. 

It's called Cetaphil, and I LOVE it! When I first got the official, "Looks like excima to me," from my skin doctor, I was told that the only way to get rid of my horribly dry, itchy, painful rash was with the medicated lotion, but that once it was gone I could just use regular lotion a few times a day to keep it from coming back full force. She told me about two of the most popular, which I bought, used, and wasn't impressed with. I went through about 6 different lotions after that, all of which had an Achielle's heel. 

Then I switched to a recipe I found on Pinterest that the bloggers all swore by. No such luck. I still had issues with my skin getting dry and itchy, and I constantly smelled like baby lotion. Not exactly a good smell for a woman in her early twenties. 

Then my angel friend, Erin, gave me a jar of this stuff that her other friend with eczema swore by.  I tried it after a shower that night, and it was as though my skin was drinking after a decade of drought.  My skin lapped it up, and then kept moist through most of the day. It didn't itch when I put it on, there was no smell, and I only needed it once or twice a day since then.

Occasionally harsh weather still makes my rash come back, but I have been using this stuff for at least three years and have only gone through 1/4 of a tube of the medicated lotion since I started using Cetaphil. It really is the skin nectar of the Gods. So hopefully I've helped some lonely soul out there who needs a new body lotion.