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Cocoa Butter

Southerngirl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:24:48 -0500

My son as well as most of my family has Eczema. I use cocoa butter cream on my son with a few drops of tea tree and vitamin E essential oil mixed in. Not the white cream stuff this is a very thick greasy brown formula I think it is Palmers. We use Nutrogena T-gel shamoo and palmers olive oil spary on his hair. When we were younger my grandma used to mix medicated vaseline with cocoa butter, olive oil and mint for my cousins. That stuff worked wonders. None of us have been able to get the formula just right so we have had to resort to store bought stuff. I find that as long as I drop a few drops of tea tree and or pepermint essential oil in what ever we use our skin seems to be fine.

One the other hand I have found that the more junk we eat the more prone my son is to have an out break.

Michelle

I blog at http://www.mommycan.blogspot.com/

ShiKai Borage Dry Skin Therapy has worked for me and my kids

HapaMama — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:12:20 -0500

We've also used the California Baby Calendula cream, but the ShiKai lotion comes in a much larger bottle for the price. Borage contains one of the Omegas, which is supposed to be good for healing dry skin. I think Asian skin is more acclimated for humid climates. But oh well!

Grace Hwang Lynch, blogs about Asian mixed race families at www.HapaMama.com

Cetaphil lotion is good, too

Karen Walrond — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:57:13 -0500

My 5-year-old has had eczema all her life, and we've found Cetaphil lotion to be pretty great as well. It's as good as Eucerin, but tends to spread a bit easier. She does shower every day, but then we SLATHER this stuff on, and it tends to keep the eczema at bay.

Good luck!

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Karen Walrond is a writer and photographer in Houston, Texas. Read/See more of her life at www.chookooloonks.com

Dream Cream from Lush

sassymonkey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:28:16 -0500

I've had eczema issues for as long as I can remember. Plus during the winter I have just general dry skin (we have forced air heating). I mentioned it in a blog post a few years ago and HeatherB recommended I try Lush's Dream Cream. Love. It. It won't do anything for a bad flare up but I find it helps prevent minor ones from getting out of hand without turning to prescription stuff.

Jojoba can help too. I get breakouts on my scalp sometimes (OMG HORRIBLE) and I find that washing my hair only a few times a week with shampoo that contains jojoba and blow drying it rather than air drying helps.

Sigh, calendula. The Body Shop used to make a soy and calendula cream that I found really helpful not for dry skin but for those days I accidentally got too much sun.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Oh yeah, add smoking to the list

Mom101 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:55:38 -0500

I quit 8 years ago (whoo!) but I did smoke on and off for many years before that.

I will however say that even back then when I had "great skin" I did see improvement after I quit. So you can only get better!

And man, I miss getting carded. I had a good run untila bout 36 but now I guess they figure I actually do look older than the Olsen twins.

Mom-101

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It's true! I'm 32, smoke

Dysconnection — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:50:27 -0500

It's true! I'm 32, smoke (I have a quit date set), use soap & water and a decent but not expensive moisturiser and pass for under 25. On a good day I still get id'ed buying alcohol. My mum has great skin, I think it's due to some Jewish heritage further back - great elasticity, natural oil's (I get the odd break out still too) and no real sun aging.

It's really nice to be able to say 'I have great skin!' and value it. So thanks for sharing :)

vitamin D and rosacea

kthmcgv — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:50:19 -0500

Hi,

After realizing that my rosacea got a bit better in the summer (when vitamin D is generated more in the skin) and knowing that vitamin D is beneficial for skin healing, I began taking 1000 IU of vitamin D per day. After just a few days my inflammation was almost 100 percent reduced and the pustules were gone. This is after a year of taking metrogel with only slight improvement.

I suggest everyone should look into taking vitamin d supplements and discuss this possiblity with you dermatologist.

Here are a few I can't live without and where to buy:

rtcoffeegirl — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:24:30 -0600

I found a lip plumper that I really really like. It's by APOTEK and I like that it's a total lip conditioner as well as plumper. You can use it by itself, as a primer before lipstick or gloss, or even over your lipstick or gloss. It's not too sting-y, it smells yummy but not too sweet, and it's not gunky at all. Plus it comes in a tube with a wand, so you don't get your finger all gummy. Go to Apotek Total Lip Treatment to purchase. If you do decide to purchase, you can click and paste this coupon code right here: 15PNWS01--save $15 on a $50 order. They have lots of cool stuff at this site (askderm.com).

Vivite' Skin Care by Allergan: in a word, AMAZING. I actually got this at my neurologist's office of all places! Since I started using this regimen (not complicated, really) my skin is clear and it glows. It's really kind of freaking me out actually. I'm actually going out without wearing concealer or foundation, which I haven't done since, gosh, I was like my 9 yr old daughter Anya's age. Not you know, out OUT, but like to Starbuck's and stuff.

Anyway, it's loaded with glycolic acid, salicylic acid, anti-oxidants, and a bunch of natural ingredients like green tea, aloe, chamomile, olive leaf extract, chamomile, pomegranate, caffeine, etc. Check out their website at http://www.viviteskincare.com/. I use the exfoliating cleanser, exfoliating scrub, serum, and I'm just now trying their Vibrance therapy for fading spots. I received a free trial regimen from my doc: it included an eye cream and night cream which I still use; however, I purchased the full sized products from http://www.livelyskin.com/ at a discounted price with two-day shipping. However, if you want to learn more before buying, go to and click on AskDerm.com and type in Vivite and the experts (aka live people, imagine that!) there will talk with you first about all the details about how it works.

Revale' Night Cream with CoffeeBerry Extract: This anti-aging treatment contains the most potent concentration of the super-antioxidant CoffeeBerry at 1.5 percent. This formulation contains other natural antioxidants as well to enhance skin restoration and protect the skin from free radicals and was named one of Allure's top products the past 2 years running. All I know is it helps my fine lines. Go to Night Cream from Revaleskin and order it. Fast. It's soft and creamy and totally non-irritating. You need this cream.

Ziana (Topical Vitamin A): (Rx only) or Renova or Retina-A, etc.: if you aren't using these products, you are either crazy or a woman of childbearing age (or one and the same? Couldn't resist that joke, sorry). These are one of the greatest discoveries in skincare in the past 20 years, simply because they work. I've found Ziana to be the least peely, for me. And I exfoliate, a lot. A lot a lot. Ask your derm to write it for acne and it will be totally covered by insurance.

B. Kamins Chemist Sunbar Sunscreen SPF 30: This is the one sunscreen for your face and body that has it all. Check this out: It's oil free, fragrance free, paba free, non-greasy, water resistant, has an antioxidant formula, may be reapplied over makeup, broad spectrum protection UVA/UVB, for face and body. Has a nice nude color that dissolves quickly and easily. Safe for babies over 6 months of age. Their products are all "maple" based. Whatever that means. I just like it. Go to B.Kamins for that.

Hope you enjoy these products as much as I do...they are all fab and I freak if I run out of any of them!

Rachel Thompson

www.giltfree.blogspot.com

I know what you mean

Miakoda — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:30:46 -0500

I'm an Indian woman and I've seen so many matrimonial ads that refer to color that I've become immune to them- I don't even bat an eyelid- same goes for the ads on TV. It's sad, really. There's too much hypocrisy in this country and this love for the 'fair' color is just another example. I've written a sarcastically funny post on the same topic- do check it out!

http://www.blogher.com/matrimonial-ad

Mia :)

"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, waves, the tides, and
gravity,we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second
time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire."

Yes the poem!

Holligurl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:16:04 -0500

Thanks Alanna - Pablo Neruda is a great poet. He takes such simple things and makes them beautiful!

There are also quite a number of great poets from Africa that I will be featuring on my blog.

I also love to read and blog about food and eating well - so will definitely check out your contributions as well!!

Thanks again.

LOVE the poem!

Alanna Kellogg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:49:09 -0500

Thanks so much for the little window into your TV life there in Africa!

Alanna Kellogg
Kitchen Parade &
A Veggie Venture

Waiting...

snigdhasen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:08:33 -0500

Maria, Prisoner's Wife,

Do enlighten us :)

Post it!

snigdhasen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:07:13 -0500

Nita, convert that draft into a post! Would LOVE to read your ideas, analysis and experiences. It can only help further the discussion.

I think it's high time we wrote and discussed this issue more seriously. I saw this new Ponds White Beauty ad (for a pinkish-white glow). I understand it may be too early to judge how the ad will finally end, but who are they selling the "pinkish white glow" to? How can a brown person ever look pinkish-white?

Seriously...

Snigdha, as you said its a

Nitajk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:37:44 -0500

Snigdha, as you said its a complicated subject and I have a draft post on this!

Overall though people tend to think of colour as an attribute of beauty.

And also, honor killings are carried out in some feudal families but more because marriages are out of caste and creed, not because of colour. In fact marrying outside caste and religion gets people's hackles up, and some criminal minded people kill. but there is trouble even without this.

There was a well publicised case of a famous industrialist whose son committed suicide because his parents could not accept his marriage to a white girl. Happened in London.

Thanks for the link

Nita

Not Sure

theprisonerswife — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:15:33 -0500

I will have to ask. You're probably right in terms of marriage, but i'll ask to make sure. He's from Jamaica, where the Indian population isn't as large as on other islands such as Trinidad or Grenada.

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Gimme Love: http://theprisonerswife.blogspot.com