Your Stories - Soap

Pure Shea Butter and African Soap - Michelle, Biddulph, UK

At the moment I am using pure virgin Shea butter and black African soap and soaking my 7 month daughter in oat baths every night and touch wood this appears to be a winning formula. The eczema seems to be disappearing. I have also been using Pure Potions Skin Salvation which is very good but expensive to use on a day to day basis. I got the butter and soap from ethicalbaby.co.uk very reasonable prices and a little goes along way. (August 2007) Contact Michelle

Lush Soap - Sarra, St Helens, UK

After nearly 2 years of suffering I went to a natural shop called Lush and bought Dream Cream. It helped clear my little boys skin up in 3 days. Any cream u do use keep it in the fridge so it is cooling when applied. (July 2007) Contact Sarra

Fruit Soap - Gordon, Swansea, UK

This is my first visit to this site and I have read the same things on other similar sites. What amazes me is the number of sufferers. I am one of those fortunate ones that managed to get rid of the dreaded curse. I suffered with eczema on my hands for more years than I care to remember. It got so bad I had to tape the ends of my fingers with micro pore to prevent the skin from splitting. Over the years I have been prescribed every steroid cream in the book all to no avail. When I saw the consultant at the local hospital in 1997 he said I had eczema and I would have it for life. He gave me another steroid and a hand wash and after using them for 3/4 days my hands were worse still so I consigned both products to the bin. My luck changed just afterwards- my wife purchased some fruit soap from a local manufacturer and within 14 days of using it I had feeling returning to my fingertips and after 6 weeks the curse had disappeared and it has never returned. I still use the soap and over the last few years I have given it to some of my friends who had skin disorders and it has had a similar effect with them. I still have a very small supply and if there is some one out there that would like to try it I am quite prepared to send them sufficient free of charge to see if it works on them. Contact Gordon

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