Baking soda for psoriasis

[Buttermak3r]

Helo i am a newbie. My five year old is suffering.
Itchy burning and raw. On scalp more dry. Elbows knees. Shins. And groin. How bad doesthis method burn?. Lastyear it started. I treated with frstly taking all soaps away. Then moisturized with jojoba oil. This year(dry cold canadian winter) its worshis method sounds great...just dont want her to scream

If you apply it in powder form directly to your skin, it burns pretty good if the skin is itchy/burning/raw... but the burning eventually goes away.
I think taking baking soda baths might be best to treat her psoriasis (it's alot more convenient, doesn't burn.) You can buy a 12 lb bag for around $6 at Costco if your area has one.
I remember I was getting results with 1 lb (1 small box) of baking soda in the bathwater. I did 2 lbs and it was even better. I've probably never tried more than 2.5 lbs of baking soda in a bath, so if use more than 2lbs of baking soda, it might being to sting (due to the salt in baking soda). I just never used more than 2lbs of baking soda because of cost.

For me too, my psoriasis gets worse during the winter. I think this is caused by taking longer, hotter showers in the winter. I'm pretty sure psoriasis is a fungus, because fungus' thrive when you take longer hotter showers.
So for this reason, I recommend you run a cheap fan forced heater in the bathroom to heat up the room so you don't have to take as hot a shower or bath, and it will also kill the moister, and you get to stand in front of a heater after you take your shower.

If you want to target just your scalp, you can apply a baking soda hair rinse.
You do this by getting a shaker bottle (or you can make your own by drilling some small holes in a suitable bottle, or you can use an empty water bottle), you get a shaker bottle and put a good amount of baking soda in the bottle (approx 1/4 inches to 2/4 inches of powder on the bottom), and then add water to the bottle and pour it on your scalp.
This method did cause my scalp to burn... but it was totally worth it because I had no more itching (but I did get massive flakes, and the baking soda will make your hair tangly, so you put vinegar in the shaker bottle and apply it to your hair afterward).
I also no longer use shampoo because it drys my scalp out and makes it itchy. But I'm also a guy with short hair, so I can more readily get away with this than if I was a girl.

I pretty much exclusively use baking soda and vinegar rinses to wash my hair. I've recently been looking into essential oils, and this guy says in a review that camphor helped him with an itchy scalp: I tried it and I guess it worked. I used 5 drops in a shaker bottle and applied it in a hair rinse to my scalp, I always used it in a combination with baking soda or other essential oils, so I can't say for sure it was the camphor that helped.
The good thing is that camphor is relatively super cheap.
Camphor does smell pretty bad though, so just a warning.

I highly recommend Eucalyptus oil. It slightly burns, but I'm pretty sure it works. I apply it undiluted to my skin because I don't want to use a carrier oil, and it's the burning isn't that bad and the burning goes within like 15 min. If my psoriasis was really bad I would use petroleum jelly to maybe lock in the oil.

Lavender oil: Lavender is an antifungal, and also safe to apply undiluted. I'm pretty sure lavender helps an itchy scalp, I've used it and I think it works. I'm not going to say it's guaranteed to work like baking soda. It smells good too, so that's definitely a plus for a 5 year old girl.

Peppermint oil: In another post on this forum someone said menthol helped them. You can try peppermint oil for her scalp. I've tried it and it feels pretty good.

Tea Tree oil: You can try tea tree oil, it's an antifungal and safe to apply undiluted. Tea tree oil doesn't really work that well for me.

Conclusion: About baking soda treatment... it takes a longggg time to work. You have to be consistent in applying it. For this reason, if your try eucalyptus oil, and it works better than baking soda, I would stick with eucalyptus because it's alot less messy than baking soda. If you're in the shower or bath, then hit it with the double action of baking soda and eucalyptus.

I've found that these bottles with a built in dropper are the best way for dispensing the oils. There is the higher initial cost, and risk of knocking the bottles over, and spilling the oil everywhere, but you just have to be careful, and you get more precision and control with these bottles than the bottles with the cap droppers.