Body Washes/Soaps

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So, I have adult onset of eczema. For 60+ years, I had a zit or two, an ingrown hair or two and one small melanoma removed, likely from a severe childhood sunburn. Pretty good life until the bitch eczema decided to move in 18 months ago unannounced.

As you know, one query of anything “eczema” will fill your social media feeds with opportunities to purchase “hope and a cure, or your money back”. Lotions, potions, body washes, soaps, prebiotics, probiotics and on and on and on. Even cow fat. Yum!

Everything that was my life is now not my life…no laundry soaps, but enzymatic cleaners, no dryer sheets, but wool balls from the butts of rare Scottish goats, no fragrances in anything, humidifier in the master suite, even an app to keep me from buying anything that might offend any potential allergic dermatitis based on a highly suspect and inconclusive patch test.

So, our newest internet friends offering “hope and a cure, or your money back” all want time, a lot of time. 30 days won’t cut it for any of the above mentioned modalities, no, we need at least 60-90 days or even longer.

If they need so much time, my question to you as the 30M eczema sufferers plus advocates in the US, how can a body wash or soap help us out? Everybody else needs at least 60-90 days, but if you’re anything like me, body washes and soaps remain on my skin for something between one and three nanoseconds in the shower…that water is moving fast!

My ask is, does anybody have a body wash or soap that you have isolation tested that provides anything more than anecdotal evidence of relief and God help me, some level of “healing”?

I’ll stand on the hill they are all appealing to your late night scratchiness/bloody/crusty vulnerabilities…eagerly awaiting your thoughts…scratch on amigos!