A few things I realized for 2018:
- I ate a lot of sweet delicious oranges during my skin flare up and after stopping for a week, my rash seems to be less red.
- Paprika intake in a soup recipe I followed may have also contributed to the rash. However, I thought paprika is supposed to be good for me. :(
- The weather has been really dry I think this winter. The office environment also dries out my skin and if I am lazy and did not spend enough time in the morning to moisturize my body, my skin gets so dry that I feel it is pulling. With the eczema rash, it feels like it would if I had a sunburn. Moving around, getting up and down from my seat was really painful.
Trying a few things starting this week:
- I mixed together a salve from raw shea butter, lavender essential oil, witch hazel oil and tea tree oil.
- I use it on my rashed skin area after a couple of days after applying my steroid cream. The salve seems to help with moisturizing and at the same time heal any broken skin due to my scratching.
- If I can avoid using steroid cream I will.
- I think after I finish with the shea butter I may use Vaseline as the base.
- Will provide an update after a month.
- Going to start drinking Oolong tea.
- I remembered reading and hearing from my parents that Oolong tea is good for your health.
- So I Googled it and found an article. It says the tea is good for your skin and eczema as well. :) I'll drink it moving forward to see if it helps. :) Supposed to be good for managing weight loss.
- Hope it's true. Borrowed this picture from organicfacts.net
- Continue using Kiehl's products. They are still working well for me. However, I've switched from the Ultra Facial Deep Moisture Balm to the Ultra Facial Cream. The balm was too rich for me, can you believe it? I was developing whiteheads on my forehead and cheeks. Now, I use the Ultra Facial Cream and it moisturizes great and my whiteheads are diminishing. I use Witchhazel to help to diminish the whiteheads.
Back to keeping my skin healthy. :)
See you soon.
