Rosehip To The Rescue: How Rosehip Oil Works For Winter Skin
Winter can be a bitter time for those with sensitive or chronically dry skin: the combination of central heating inside and cold temperatures out can result in skin being brutally...
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Can Stress Cause Itchy Rashes?
It’s not always external irritants that cause the rashes associated with eczema and other chronic skin problems; sometimes the trigger is psychological rather than physical.
7 Top Tips For Naturally Healthy Skin
Want to ditch the skin-irritant synthetic ingredients, the expensive hyped-up pharmaceutical treatments and the ecologically-disastrous petrochemicals? Whatever your skin type, chronically dry to eczema-prone or oily, try our seven top tips...
How To Apply Eczema Cream
While topical steroids for eczema come with very precise and individualised instructions, it’s less obvious how to manage the daily routine of putting creams and ointments onto itchy skin, especially...
Could Standard Advice About Eczema Be Putting Children At Risk?
All parents know the drill: your child develops a nasty rash, you take them to the GP for something that will help. If the rash is diagnosed as eczema, contact...
5 Things You Should Never Say To An Eczema Sufferer
One of the worst things about having eczema is how obvious it can be. Raw, inflamed, severely dry or bleeding skin is very hard to hide, and that means people,...
Is Coconut Oil Good For Eczema?
Well, the answer is complicated! Coconut oil has been used on the skin for centuries around the world and it does indeed seem to have some antibacterial and some moisturising...
Customer Reward Scheme
We’re transferring our current rewards scheme to a new platform and want to let you all know how the scheme works. All current rewards account holders will be automatically upgraded...
5 Toxic Ingredients To Avoid In Eczema Creams
If you live with a chronic skin condition such as eczema or dermatitis, you’ll recognise the frustration of getting home with a lovely new moisturiser for your poor dry skin,...
The Brutal Truth: Topical Steroid Withdrawal - Emilie's Story
"I think the hardest part of TSW is how much you miss out on during that time. I was housebound for almost two whole years. People lose family and friends...
5 Signs You Are Addicted To Topical Steroids
We’ve probably all heard doctors stress the need for applying steroid creams carefully, sparingly and only for a short time, but of course in practice most people with severe eczema...
The Brutal Truth: Kirstie's Story
Kirstie McCall’s baby daughter suffered from eczema so badly that she began to despair of it ever clearing up. Like many parents before her, Kirstie spent months battling the terrible...