Eczema.

[Sam_Ben]

First area of consideration would be what is she allergic to? I have had eczema sine age 2 (very long ago) anywhere from mild to life threatening Severe. Yes eczema can certainly be life threatening. If she is allergic to bees please do not add in honey or beeswax. Pine Tar can be a severe allergin, so be careful with it. Shea can be very bad for people with latex allergies. Best suggestion would be to keep it simple. If not opposed to using lard, it makes a wonderful soap mixed with very light pure olive oil, some castor and 18% coconut oil. Again please weed out what causes her eczema, including eo's, or if she just has dry skin, make a very mild bar using emollient oils such as sunflower, avocado, or rice bran. Other than the avocado, the other oils should be used in the 10-15% range. Canola is also a favorite of mine.
Personally my skin loves loves salt bars and all things salt. It helps keep the itching at bay. Lavender & peppermint is a very nice eo combination for eczema. Oatmeal depends on whether oatmeal bothers her. Neem oil also works for some, but start with a small test batch of neem soap with a low percentage of neem to start. Trust me try salt bars! I even make myself a salt scrub in a cream soap base with jojoba lavender oil that has kept me off predisone for 1 yrs now. (stops the itch). Avocado oil contains a plant steroid which can also help. Flax Seed oil can also be a high allergin. Keep it simple with no exotic oils until you are sure what can be used. The same goes for any leave on products and they should always be tested in a small area, inside elbow is the best. LOL, you will see I am very passionate about "eczema". Many will say she just has eczema, well I have almost died more than once from "just eczema".

Thank you sooo much, i really need a one to one start from zero, my son 5 years now has been allergic to so many ingredients and been on rx ointments since he was born, I'm trying to home make his soaps, creams, shampoos, and there are sooo many options and advise out there I dont know where to start honestly or how to combine different ingredients that might all be good! Honey, oat, avocado seems all good and he is not allergic to it. Should I just start with 2 ingredients and build on it? can you advise me please step by step. I'm using melt and pour base.

 

[Relle]

Thank you sooo much, i really need a one to one start from zero, my son 5 years now has been allergic to so many ingredients and been on rx ointments since he was born, I'm trying to home make his soaps, creams, shampoos, and there are sooo many options and advise out there I dont know where to start honestly or how to combine different ingredients that might all be good! Honey, oat, avocado seems all good and he is not allergic to it. Should I just start with 2 ingredients and build on it? can you advise me please step by step. I'm using melt and pour base.

I moved your post as it was in a thread that was 11 yrs old. Cmzaha, is still here but not in every day. I don't know about eczema to help, but going on the above info you will have to make your soap from scratch and not use a premade base like melt and pour.

 

[artemis]

Ya. A premade base will only hold a tiny amount of the beneficial additives. Not enough to do anything. Be careful of the mommy bloggers online who advise you to just add stuff into melt and pour or Dr. Bronners. Those soaps can be harsher than you'd expect and their recipes are often not well thought out.

 

[squidstings]

My trigger was in our water. I had stopped drinking our city's tap water years ago, but still bathe in it and wash my clothes in it. Then I found that ingredients were changing, but labels no longer did. Even my commercially purchased "distilled water" was no longer trustworthy.

Be sure of the cause. A number of skin conditions are extremely similar, but treatment for the wrong condition/organ will just keep you chasing. My experience with no healthcare to speak of.

The more you know about what's going in...

All the best

 

[Zing]

Best wishes to you and your little guy. I mean absolutely no disrespect to those who do melt and pour -- which I did for years -- but I found the soap to be drying. My skin health did a dramatic turnaround when I made cold process soap. You have a little one so I'd keep it simple. Do a search for the holy trinity but decrease the coconut oil and add castor oil at 5%.

Also do a search for 'eczema' and member @AliOop because her @HubbyOop has skin issues.

I'm not a medical professional but I do truly believe that homemade products leave out a lot of unhealthy store-bought chemicals. I have tried dozens of prescription and OTC creams but none can compare to my homemade products. Just my personal experience.

As for oats, if you make cold process soap, I'd use colloidal oats. Oat meal alone is very abrasive. Personally, I think honey is an advanced technique. I have no experience with avocado.

If you want to start with something simple, lotion bars are cheap and easy. I do 1/3 each of beeswax, a butter, and oil. There are many good butters, mango butter absorbs quickly. -- shea and cocoa butters are awesome too Lightweight oils include jojoba oil, rice bran oil, sweet almond oil, fractionated coconut oil. It's melt and pour! And easily tweaked.

I recently made shampoo bars and my scalp health is dramatically improved.

Keep us posted and let us know how to help you and li'l man.