Maintaining glowing skin is challenging when you have Eczema. It’s in my DNA. Every since I was a little girl, my parents lathered me down with every salve available on the market. Remember brown Vaseline? It was medicated and sold in a copper- colored container. I wore it like an everyday oxford shirt. It weighed me down and limited my outfit options. I remember stiff zombie walking with my arms pointed out away from my body so nothing would touch. I was glistening with globs of goop to try and calm down the inflammation. My parents even bought aloe vera plants and used its gooey gel on my skin.
Between dermatologists visits, diet restrictions, expensive ointments and drug store remedies, my eczema fought back and won, on many occasions. Luckily, the breakouts lessened over the years but the skin disease never disappears.
Fast forward to womanhood. My beauty regimen now includes an intelligent dermatologist and mostly organic cosmetics but I never know what beauty products are going to spark the eczema again. This time, it was Dove underarm deodorant. My pit skin freaked out and blew up like a fiery tweet. The only thing that’s keeping the inflammation+swelling at bay is Salvation Lip+Skin Salve magic wand from Left Hand Soap Company. Made from earth’s best hallelujah resources, some of its ingredients include fresh-picked lavender, sweet almond oil, hemp oil, beeswax, vitamin E and other essential oils. Within a couple minutes of gliding it on, the itching stopped and the throbbing chilled out. This Salvation salve is a miracle! Use it on cuts, burns, bug bites and anything that angers your skin. $3.50-$10, lefthandsoapcompany.com
