Health Boards
Fri-18-09-2015, 11:16 AM
hey there everybody, hope you are having a great start to the weekend.
A little background before I present my query. I am now 27 and have had P since age 16. I have always had it on my scalp and also various parts of my body, however on my body it seems to be sparse and it is worse on my scalp. It has never totally gone. I have been eating much better for the past 6 months and have taken away any refined sugar, dairy, vegetable oil or fried food, white rice and potatoes and red meat (only eat fish now).. I don't smoke and have always exercised but more more these days. This has helped a lot but I do fall down and drink alcohol once every week or 2.
My point here is that I purchased some Dr Bronner's 1 in 18 natural lotion to wash with in the shower, scalp and body. It is very natural and I have heard so many good things about it for people with P, however it seems to aggravate my plagues by making them dryer and more inflamed, a sort of angry red. I have heard people with skin conditions speak highly of this stuff and the ingredients do seem to be very natural, the only questionable thing may be hydrogen peroxide, but I am not chemist. I do recall though that tea-tree oil had a similar reaction with my P and this stuff contains that, but again others have spoken highly of tea-tree oil.. Could this just be me? Do I need to dilute the solution when using it to wash because I do not want to use soaps that are full of chemicals anymore, something all natural. Can anybody offer their experience with Dr Bronner's and other natural ways to wash?
Tom
A little background before I present my query. I am now 27 and have had P since age 16. I have always had it on my scalp and also various parts of my body, however on my body it seems to be sparse and it is worse on my scalp. It has never totally gone. I have been eating much better for the past 6 months and have taken away any refined sugar, dairy, vegetable oil or fried food, white rice and potatoes and red meat (only eat fish now).. I don't smoke and have always exercised but more more these days. This has helped a lot but I do fall down and drink alcohol once every week or 2.
My point here is that I purchased some Dr Bronner's 1 in 18 natural lotion to wash with in the shower, scalp and body. It is very natural and I have heard so many good things about it for people with P, however it seems to aggravate my plagues by making them dryer and more inflamed, a sort of angry red. I have heard people with skin conditions speak highly of this stuff and the ingredients do seem to be very natural, the only questionable thing may be hydrogen peroxide, but I am not chemist. I do recall though that tea-tree oil had a similar reaction with my P and this stuff contains that, but again others have spoken highly of tea-tree oil.. Could this just be me? Do I need to dilute the solution when using it to wash because I do not want to use soaps that are full of chemicals anymore, something all natural. Can anybody offer their experience with Dr Bronner's and other natural ways to wash?
Tom